I’ve been getting deeper into web mapping lately, and have started to accumulate some good resources for learning. Here are the sites I’ve been using. I’m sure there are a lot of others to add. Please let us know what they are in the comments!
- Don Meltz’s Geo Sandbox blog series wherein he gives us the play-by-play as he implements his own web mapping server from home.
- This OpenGeo Architecture white paper describes what’s in the OpenGeo map stack. It also mentions what the alternatives are, which is great if you have no idea in the first place.
- Take Control of Your Maps is a well written introduction to the map stack (hint: memorize what the map stack is, there will be a quiz later. Okay, not really but you should definitely know what this term means).
- This JavaScript tutorial is simple and easy to plow through.
If what you really want is for someone else to do this for you, check out mapbiquity. It’ll host your shapefiles, which you can style the way you’d like, and put them on a nice basemap. It gives you a small amount of HTML code to place on your website and that’s all there is to it.
If you are creating a web map from scratch but need help getting your GIS data created (say you need the locations of your school districts delineated, for example), then let me know because I’ve been doing a lot of that kind of GIS data prep-work lately and would be happy to help you out too!
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