A quick tutorial for using the Tilemill cartography platform

1. Mapping Data to the Web:
A Primer for Tilemill & Mapbox

2. TileMill sits at the
intersection of GIS
and Cartography

3. of the web
(in code and design)

4. i.e. this:

5. not this:

6. built to bake up a
whole batch of
speedy tiles

7. high performance &
high interactivity

8. mapnik:
High-quality, web-standard map
rendering

9. available on windows,
mac, linux

10. free and open
(free as in speech AND free
as in beer)

11. Download:

12. Fire it up:

16. #b8dee6 =

17. #4a7370 =

18. Map
{ background-color: #4a7370; }
#countries {
::outline {
line-color: #85c5d3;
line-width: 2;
line-join: round;
}
polygon-fill: #fff;
}
This stuff is called
CartoCSS , and it
looks like web CSS

19. Grab some open data and get started
D.C. Census Tracts:
http://db.tt/wNnjCNzK

23. Supported input formats:
- ESRI Shapefile – GeoTiff
- PostGIS- SQLite - CSV- KML - GeoJSON

39. Supported output formats:
- Static Images:
- PNG / JPEG
- SVG / PDF
- Dynamic Tiles
- MBTiles (SQLite)

53. customize!

54. Support Channels:
Twitter: @mapbox
Freenode IRC: #mapbox
support.mapbox.com