w00t! I love TileMill and all the tools therein. TileStache is a great little script for serving up those particular tiles but it requires a python server in order to run it. i don't know how much control we'll have over the server. Additionally, I'm pretty sure that Leaflet and or Polymaps are used in conjunction with both Mapnik tiles and Mapbox so those should be looked at as well.
Mapnik is the default rendering engine behind OSM and has had a lot of advancements over the past couple years. Check out developmentseed.org's website for a working example of it all. Thoughts? Adam On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Andrew Hart wrote: > 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 >>> >>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >>> Senior Computer Scientist >>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >>> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 >>> Email: [email protected] >>> WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ >>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department >>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> > > > -- > Andrew F. Hart > Software Engineer > Data Management Systems and Technologies Group, > Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology > 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 171/264 > Pasadena, CA, 91109 > [email protected] >
