Hey Adam,
Yes, definitely. I think having a map of any kind (and in particular
something like what you referenced) would go a long way.
Here's another set of tools I just came across which might be worth
looking into. I particularly like the level of control over the
look-and-feel of the maps:
Give this a whirl:
http://mapbox.com/
http://mapbox.com/tilemill/
http://mapnik.org/ (this is the foundation upon which the above are built)
https://github.com/mapbox/tilestream (this is a streaming tile server)
http://metro.teczno.com (a sweet service for grabbing portions of the
OSM dataset)
I think with a combination of the above, we could cook up a really
smooth looking map that integrates well with whatever we come up with as
a design for the rest of the site...
-Andrew
On 2/12/12 10:23 AM, Adam Estrada wrote:
Andrew,
Do you have any ideas that you would want to share regarding a new SIS website?
I still think some sort of slippy map needs to be in there. I absolutely love
the http://developmentseed.org/ home page and would love to see something
similar for the SIS page.
Adam
On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:
Hey Guys,
I think we ought to consider significantly improving our current SIS website.
With Andrew around now, I would love to get his insight and potential help
in this endeavor. I think we need to highlight our release, put up a user guide,
point to some other open source geo spatial project websites, at the least.
Thoughts? Should we keep the maven site? Should we use the new CMS?
Cheers,
Chris
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