New blog post - Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal released, built on Madrona

[Tim Welch]

Hi folks, wanted to mention a new blog post on the recent release of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal.  Some exciting technologies behind it and one our best 2D-based map implementations with Madrona to date.  Cheers to the project partners on a successful release with the more interesting design and scenario planning features yet to come.

http://madrona.ecotrust.org/news/marco-portal-released/

You can learn more about our software stack choices for this particular project and the reasoning behind them at http://ecotrust.github.com/marco-portal/technology.html.  It includes the usual suspects of Madrona, Django, PostGIS, and JQuery and adds in a unique mix of OpenLayers, Bootstrap, Knockout JS, ArcGIS, Arc2Earth, Tilemill, Tilestache, and more.  Look for some of the GeoJSON-driven client-side features developed for this project to become reusable widgets in Madrona core in the near future.

Cheers, Tim