Making Interactive Web Maps: Finding the Right Tool for You

Workshop Materials (15 Feb 2024, 10:00 – 12:00)

Created by Sarah Schöttler

Workshop Schedule

10:00 - Welcome & Introduction
10:10 - Presentation: Understanding your project requirements and constraints
10:20 - Discussion: What are you looking to achieve?
10:50 - Break
11:00 - Presentation: Tools and Example Maps
11:15 - Time to try out mapping tools, supported by the trainer
12:00 - Closing

Tool Links

These are links to all the tools mentioned in the workshop. Of course there are many more tools around, though these are currently the most mainstream, well-maintained ones. However, if you have a very specific niche use case, you might want to look around some more.

No-Code

Datawrapper (free plan with most features available)
Flourish (free plan with most features available)
Google My Maps (free)
ArcGIS Online (paid), some ArcGIS Online map types are also integrated in PowerBI (also paid, but may be available via UoE)
Tableau (paid, but free 1-year student licenses available)

Code

Leaflet
MapLibre
MapBox GL JS
DeckGL
D3.js (primarily a visualization library, but can be used for highly customized maps with d3-geo)

Other

Online tools for modifying geographic data
- MapShaper: browser-based software for editing Shapefile, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, CSV and several other data formats
- geojson.io: easily create geojson files by drawing custom shapes
Tools for specific data types
- The Vistorian: Interactive network (incl. geographic networks) visualizations

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