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publiclab / mapknitter

Upload your own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print.

http://mapknitter.org

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Upload vector data #29

Open ebarry opened 9 years ago

ebarry commented 9 years ago

A long requested feature has emerged again: the ability to upload KML or CSV files to mapknitter to really use it as a presentation / information synthesis platform. Case in point, Staten Island's North Shore Waterfront Conservancy.

jywarren commented 9 years ago

Just a clarifying point - why does this data have to be uploaded? are there pre-existing data files that they'd like to use? Can you link to any examples? The "upload" request seems to be the thing that differentiates this from the Annotations feature, right?

jywarren commented 9 years ago

This page shows how to add GeoJSON data to a Leaflet map: http://leafletjs.com/examples/geojson.html

Leaflet.omnivore supports:

CSV (via csv2geojson)
GPX (via toGeoJSON)
KML (via toGeoJSON)
WKT (via wellknown)
TopoJSON
Encoded Polylines via polyline

jywarren commented 9 years ago

I just added Omnivore for the display of KML files; no upload yet, but there's a rudimentary field to paste in a KML URL. If you have some sample files, or more description of the use case, I think we could move forward on this a bit.