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mapbox / tippecanoe

Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Request for a basic tutorial #174

Closed umaar closed 8 years ago

umaar commented 8 years ago

Your detailed tweet map is stunning. Really nice work!

It could be useful (for me and others) to add to the readme a basic guide on how to create something which resembles those maps. Personally, I'm interested in the "dot"-style maps, and also the Runkeeper style maps. The ericfischer/datamaps did this well.

For example:

To create something like this: link to one of your mapbox posts you can do the following:

Step 1 - Have a dataset like the following:

lat, lng, someValue
38.6855097, -96.50390625, 1
38.6855097, -96.50390625, 2
38.6855097, -96.50390625, 3

Step 2 - Run command $ ... to generate tiles.

I have a feeling your readme may already have all that's needed, if that's the case, please close this issue and ignore me!

lyzidiamond commented 8 years ago

Hi @umaar! There is a guide for how to use Tippecanoe on the Mapbox website: https://www.mapbox.com/help/large-data-tippecanoe/. Does this help?

umaar commented 8 years ago

It does! Thanks