Open Source Living » Maps http://osliving.com Open Source resources, community and discussion. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:17:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 TileMill http://osliving.com/entertainment/maps/tilemill/ http://osliving.com/entertainment/maps/tilemill/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:47:32 +0000 http://osliving.com/entertainment/maps/tilemill/ TileMill is a tool for cartographers to quickly and easily design maps for the web using custom data. It is built on the powerful open-source map rendering library Mapnik.

Key features include:

- Access datasources on the local filesystem or through Amazon S3
- Manage map layers with file-based datasources (shapefiles, rasters)
- Edit carto stylesheets directly in the browser
- Edit carto stylesheets with a custom editor like vim in Minimal mode
- Preview map tiles instantly while editing stylesheets
- Inspect datasource field values and data types
- Export maps to PNG, PDF and MBTiles formats


(Introduction to TileMill)

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Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara.

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