Open-source mapping library from ProPublica
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Tyler Dukes
Feb 13, 2012, 5:45:46 PM2/13/12
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I know some of you on the list have done a lot of work with mapping, so I thought you may find this useful: The developers at ProPublica decided to open source their mapping framework, Simple Tiles, today. From their Github:
For the most part, it looks like their applications are mostly on the publication side, but I wonder if there are any applications for this to build a knowledge base inside a newsroom to help find and/or make sense of stories based on geographic data.
Either way, feel free to share if you end up incorporating Simple Tiles into any of your projects.
Simple Tiles is an image generation library for spatial data written in C. At it's core it is a thin wrapper on top of OGR for spatial data and Cairo for image generation.
For the most part, it looks like their applications are mostly on the publication side, but I wonder if there are any applications for this to build a knowledge base inside a newsroom to help find and/or make sense of stories based on geographic data.
Either way, feel free to share if you end up incorporating Simple Tiles into any of your projects.
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