My wish is that at the end of this scoll, you are in that minimum position to:
- Build and publish basic websites and web maps both in PC and Mobile Phone browsers (Android 6+ and iOS)
- Use JavaScript to add interactive behavior in your maps
- Connect you web map to a database to display large amounts of data
- Include client-side geoprocessing functionality in your web map
- Gain an understanding on how the web works, and a starting point for learning more
A web map is an interactive display of geographic information, in the form of a web page, that you can use to tell stories and answer questions in an interactive manner, unlike in the old stand alone Desktop GIS alone.Good to note is that a Web Map is fully powered by the web, rather than digital maps alone.
[-] This means that the map is usually not self-contained; in other words, it depends on
the internet. At least some of the content displayed on a web maps is usually loaded from
other locations on the web, such as a tile server
Web maps are useful for various purposes, such as
- Data visualization in journalism
- Displaying real-time spatial data
- Powering spatial queries in online catalogs and search tools
- Providing computational tools
- Reporting
- Collaborative mapping among others
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details