CartoCSS Essentials
I go to UW-Madison, work at the Cartography Lab, and teach at Maptime!
I like cheese a lot
Last Spring,
I did a thing.
Goal: Build lab curriculum using CartoCSS
Why?
- Teach an unfamiliar medium (THE WEB!)
- Introduce Mapbox Studio & CartoDB
- Get students familiar with programming before HTML/CSS and JavaScript
- Challenge Students!
Challenge: Create a tileset using CartoCSS based off of art
Roy Lichtenstein - M-MAYBE HE BECAME ILL, 1965
(Thank you PSU students & Sidonie Christophe and Charlotte Hoarau for inspiration!)
From this I learned a lot about CartoCSS!
... It can
be really hard!
(You can do it! )
Tips & Tricks for designing map tiles
1. It's dangerous to go alone!
Plan ahead for what you want to have in your tile design & make a game plan
2. Mise en Place
Use Global Variables
Make multiple Style Sheets!
Hack Project.yml for custom layers
3. Attachments
4. Attributes Are Awesome
5. Never forget where you came from...
6. Have Fun!
Resources:
- I wrote a blog series on CartoCSS to get you started!
- Maptime slides on CartoCSS & Mapbox Studio
- I host my tiles on Github
- CartoCSS Documentation
- Looking for answers to questions on CartoCSS? Talk to others on the Spatial Community Slack