Fun in the Library with Mapbox

Phil White

University of Colorado Boulder

2 fun projects worth sharing

  1. Creating Sanborn indexes using Mapbox, GitHub

  2. DH webmapping project collab w/ Art professor

What is Mapbox?

  • Web mapping platform
  • Fun custom basemap styling
  • Highly customizable (with a little JavaScript)

Why use Mapbox?

  • MapboxGL JS is cutting edge (WebGL rendering, vector tyles) 
  • Popular—
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Sanborn Indexes

All credit to Evan Thornberry!! Check out his presentation on urban atlas indexes using Leaflet JS.

Sanborn indexes as webmaps embedded in libguide:

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I followed Evan's method with an update from Leaflet to Mapbox GL:

  1. Heads up digitize new layers based on Sanborn index/keymap as GeoJson

  2. Store layers on GitHub

  3. Create a nifty webmap using Mapbox GL JS

  4. Add GeoJson index layers to webmap straight from GitHub

  5. Embed maps someplace (like a libguide)

Title Text

  1. Creating Sanborn indexes using Mapbox, GitHub

  2. DH webmapping project collab w/ Art professor
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