Web GIS 690 Presentation Intro
"The Web changes everything, and GIS is no exception." (Fu, 2010)
Presentation Coverage at a Glance
- Thesis: You Can Ditch your Desktop GIS and do Web GIS with JavaScript
- A Brief History of Web Mapping
- HTML5 Geolocation API: See How JavaScript Eats the Web
- GeoJSON: The New Universal Dialect for Geographic Data Transport
- Using D3 for Geographic Data Visualizations & Diff Projections
- Leaflet: A Kinder, Simpler Web Mapping API
- Mapbox: The Open Web Mapping Platform
- Turf: The Holy Grail: True GIS Analysis for Web Maps
- Conclusion / Furthur Research: Rasters, Spatial Databases, and Server-Side