Skip to content

mapmeld/africa-carto

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

17 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

africa-carto

When I was at an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum last year, I took pictures of a few Africa maps. I wondered, how might the maps be different if they used a non-Mercator projection. Would the difference be noticeable? Where could the curators go to quickly create such a map? Now that some time has passed, and I no longer work for a rival museum, I'd like to re-make these maps on the web and see how they would look.

You can use this repo to create your own cartography, or as a tutorial in cartography, D3, and MapBoxGL.

The Maps

Physical and Kingdom Map

Tutorial

Includes

  • OpenStreetMap
  • MapBoxGL (including terrain)
  • QGIS
  • GeoJSON / TopoJSON
  • Overpass API
  • Natural Earth Data

Modern Political Map

Tutorial

Includes

  • OpenStreetMap
  • D3 geo and projections
  • GeoJSON / TopoJSON
  • Natural Earth Data

Colonial Map (not started)

Tutorial

Includes

  • OpenStreetMap
  • Mapzen Tangram
  • GeoJSON / TopoJSON
  • Natural Earth Data

Open Source License

GPLv3+ deal with it

About

D3, MapBoxGL, and Tangram clones of Brooklyn Museum print maps of Africa

Resources

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published