Reading List Week 7/8 2015

Web Development

• Design Last - CSS isn’t content!
• EXPLORING NEW TURF - we will all use Turf, because we are lazy.
• Getting Started with the Speech Synthesis API - I’m maybe not the only one that want to listen to content while reading something else(PowerLearningX2).
• A look at Mapbox’ vector tiles - Karverket is trying Mapbox GL(Norwegian).
• Customization and support for arbitrary feature types in iD - it’s now much easier to turn iD into your own map editor!

Other Programming

• Using R to download and parse JSON: an example using data from an open data portal - Plotting JSON data on a map using R.
• THE BIRTH & DEATH OF JAVASCRIPT - watch this it’s funny ;-)
• Using RStudio as an interactive GIS with Leaflet - Did someone say R again? :-D
• The Guardian — Understanding and engaging mobile users - part of Googles Developers stories.

Maps

• Formge Lantmäteriets data med CartoCSS - working with text labels in TileMill(Swedish).
• GSD-Höjddata, Grid 50+ - the old height dataset(+-2 meter) for Sweden is going open data this summer!
• Routing on Openstreetmap.org - routing is now available directly on the OpenStreetMap homepage.

Other Reading

• DSCOVR: a new view of Earth - Mapbox about SpaceX first deep space mission.
• Geoengineering is an insane way to deal with climate change. Let’s consider it anyway. - you are not the only one crazy I got that idea when I was 11(interesting but stupid at least for now).