Dane Springmeyer

@springmeyer

Make Beautiful Maps, Share Them Anywhere

CUGOS Spring fling | May 16th, 2012 | dane@mapbox.com

My Background

Geographer, Development Seed
Engineer, MapBox

We build MapBox

Make Beautiful Maps

TileMill

Share Them Anywhere

MapBox Hosting

Design principles

Open source and user driven from the start

As if map making were like web design, software was like the browser

Same code for both desktop and web

TileMill

TileMill Details

Written in Javascript (Node.js) and C++ (Mapnik)

Cross platform: Windows, OS X, Ubuntu

Desktop output: PNG/JPEG/SVG/PDF

Web output: MBTiles

Other applications: Mapnik XML

Custom MapBox account

MapBox Hosting Details

Upload, store maps, make private or public

Combine layers through compositing, track usage with statistics

Robust - no fear of going down under load

Demo!

http://ds.io/tilemill-ec2