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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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How to guides for designing maps available on support.mapbox.com
We’re expanding our documentation to help TileMill and TileStream users get the most out of their MapBox maps. Five new articles have just been posted on support.mapbox.com covering a range of topics.
The first reviews websites and programs available for choosing colors and schemes, providing a convenient directory of tools to help you design maps. The second discusses the pros and cons of the most common geocoding services. Using these correctly, you can turn addresses and other geographic information into specific latitudes and longitudes, which is essential for mapping overlays.
Turning geographic information into specific latitudes and longitudes is essential when creating map overlays
An article on terrain visualization introduces some command-line programs from the GDAL library to facilitate working with digital elevation models. The article walks though how to create and combine different types of terrain visualizations that can be imported as geotiff layers into TileMill projects.
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