Sample for 'Intro to GitHub' Workshop - MaptimeYVR

This is a sample built for the 'Intro to GitHub' session for MaptimeYVR held on Tuesday Feb. 17, 2015
Slides for this talk.

Goal of this exercise

Learn how to:

• Fork, commit, and submit a pull request on a Git repo.
• Use the gh-pages branch to host websites on GitHub.

Background

The published site is a simple map that loads one Geojson file for each user/contributor that includes some points of interest.
Each user will fork the main repo, add a folder for themself, point to that folder in the main Index.html file and submit a pull request.

Resources

• Get Lat Lon
• Color hex codes

Steps

• Fork this repo.
• Use the GitHub client (Windows or Mac) to clone the files to your machine.
• Add a folder with your username. Add a geojson file named 'locations'.
• Add a point (or more) in the file with properties 'name', 'color' and 'user'.
• Modify Index.html to add the folder name to the array named 'users'.
• Commit changes.
• Sync repo with GitHub.
• Check changes by visiting the published page at http://<username>.github.io/sampleIntoToGitHub
• Submit pull request.