{"id":2296,"date":"2014-11-20T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2015-03-10T12:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T12:31:26","slug":"about-maps-and-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/about-maps-and-data\/","title":{"rendered":"About Maps and Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an omnibus article on data visualisation using maps. I went back to map visualisation solution in the autumn of 2014. This <a title=\"tag = maps, here\" href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/tag\/maps\/\">maps tag<\/a> retrieves the the articles on this wiki. My current interests is in web hosted maps visualisations and thus in wordpress. I have also found this article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/map-tools\/\">10 Free Tools For Creating Your Own Maps<\/a>. A couple of these look very interesting. UMapper and HeatMaps look rather fun. I have also experimented with <a title=\"Community, Tableau Public\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tableausoftware.com\/public\/community\">Tableau Software&#8217;s public<\/a> aka community release.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I installed two maps on this wiki, at <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/testing-interactive-world-map\/\">testing interactive world map<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/testing-ideal-interactive-map\/\">testing ideal interactive map<\/a>. They can be viewed at their requisite pages.<\/p>\n<p>Further research pointed me at <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/leaflet-maps-marker\/\">mapsmarker<\/a> another wordpress plugin.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my bookmarks,<\/p>\n<p>[jp-rss-feed url=&#8221;http:\/\/feeds.delicious.com\/v2\/rss\/davelevy\/maps+webdesign&#8221; numitems=&#8221;7&#8243; getdesc=&#8221;50&#8243; ]<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a commons world map,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"The World, from commons.wikimendia.org\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ec\/World_map_blank_without_borders.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4378\" height=\"2435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This file is licensed under the <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:en:Creative Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/en:Creative_Commons\">Creative Commons<\/a> Attribution-Share Alike <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">4.0 International<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en\" rel=\"nofollow\">3.0 Unported<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.5\/deed.en\" rel=\"nofollow\">2.5 Generic<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/deed.en\" rel=\"nofollow\">2.0 Generic<\/a> and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/1.0\/deed.en\" rel=\"nofollow\">1.0 Generic<\/a> license, copyright held by the Free Software Foundation. Originally found at <a title=\"at commons.wikimedia.org\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:World_map_blank_without_borders.svg\">here&#8230; Here is its 500px width .png version. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/about-maps-and-data\/500px-world_map_blank_without_borders-svg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2533 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/500px-World_map_blank_without_borders.svg_.png\" alt=\"500px-World_map_blank_without_borders.svg\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/500px-World_map_blank_without_borders.svg_.png 500w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/500px-World_map_blank_without_borders.svg_-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an omnibus article on data visualisation using maps. I went back to map visualisation solution in the autumn of 2014. This maps tag retrieves the the articles on this wiki. My current interests is in web hosted maps visualisations and thus in wordpress. I have also found this article, 10 Free Tools For&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[303,920,911,527],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-technology","tag-maps","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-visualisation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/faerun-w650.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}