Workshop @ Concatenate Lagos 2019
Anjana Vakil, Software Engineer @ Mapbox
Location data is all around us, and has become an increasingly important component of web & mobile apps users love. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll learn how to build an interactive, custom web map using open data and free, open-source tools from Mapbox. Through a hands-on project, we will cover basic web mapping concepts and tools, including:
By completing this workshop you’ll learn how to:
No prior experience with geographic data or web mapping is required; basic familiarity with HTML & JS will be assumed but everyone is welcome.
If you forked the workshop repo on Github, you can use Github Pages to publish your maps right now!
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "add my awesome maps"
gh-pages
and push it to your fork on Github
$ git checkout -b gh-pages
$ git push -u origin gh-pages
https://<your-username>.github.io/mapbox-concatenate-workshop/...
!We’d love to see whatever you build! Share on Twitter with the #builtwithmapbox
hashtag so that we can amplify your work!
We’ve only scratched the surface of what maps & Mapbox tools can do!
For more information & ideas, check out:
Keep up with @Mapbox and @AnjanaVakil on Twitter, and contact Mapbox if you need any help with our tools.
This workshop would not have been possible without: