A front-end dev epic journey into geography
summary
Chronicle of web cartography that names actual tools and outcomes: history of longitude and web Mercator that puts Earth in a square with Greenland appearing ~7× too large; tiles as 256px image grids and the planet file at ~1 terabyte; Leaflet described as the jQuery of maps while GeoJSON, PostGIS and Overpass power workflows; CB builds an open source online editor, uses vector tiles rendered client‑side with SVG/D3 atop raster basemaps and Mapbox now pushes a WebGL client.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:21Eriks background
- 3:47Eriks Twitter
- 3:57Map Tiles
- 6:22Projections
- 9:24Latitude and Longitude
- 11:10OpenStreetMap
- 14:05Data Visualization
- 16:28Leaflet
- 19:35Carter CSS
- 26:19Conclusion
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