Offline Mapping with Mapbox Atlas

Kinshasa Workshop

Anjana Vakil, Software Engineer @ Mapbox

Overview

In this hands-on workshop, we'll learn how to build custom maps & visualizations using open data and free, open-source, offline-ready tools from Mapbox. Through hands-on activities, we will cover basic Mapbox concepts and tools, including:

• Editing & styling maps in Mapbox Atlas, an offline map data & design tool
• Using custom Atlas styles for digitizing in JOSM
• Developing map visualizations with Kepler, a powerful and easy to use open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets
• Processing imagery and data for use in Mapbox Atlas

Goals

By completing this workshop you'll learn how to...

Day 1:

• Create & publish a new style in Studio from a template
• Add a new layer with a custom tileset source to a style in Studio
• Build two different custom visualizations in Kepler from a single CSV dataset

Day 2:

• Set up & configure the Flyaway kit
• Load and process raster & vector data into tilesets
• Consume a published aerial imagery style from Atlas in JOSM

Prerequisites

Some familiarity with working geographic data and OpenStreetMap is helpful. No experience with web mapping is required. Basic familiarity with the command line is assumed. But everyone is welcome.

What you'll need

• Laptop with browser (Chrome or Firefox preferred)
• The workshop materials - download from github.com/mapbox/atlas-drc-workshop

Contents

Day 1

Part 1: Process vector data

• Load and process a GeoJSON file into a tileset

Part 2: Style

• Create & publish a new style in Studio from a template
• Add a new layer with a custom tileset source to a style in Studio

Part 3: Kepler

• Build two different custom visualizations in Kepler from a single CSV dataset

Day 2

Part 4: Fly Away Kit Admin

• Power up & configure the Flyaway kit

Part 5: Process imagery

• Load and process imagery into a tileset

Part 2: JOSM Editing

• Consume in JOSM a published aerial imagery style from Atlas

After this workshop

Share what you #builtwithmapbox

We'd love to see whatever you build! Share on Twitter with the #builtwithmapbox hashtag so that we can amplify your work!

Learn more

We've only scratched the surface of what Mapbox tools can do!

For more information & ideas, check out:

• The Mapbox Documentation, including Help and Tutorials
• The Mapbox Studio Manual
• The Kepler User Guide

Stay in touch

Keep up with @Mapbox and @AnjanaVakil on Twitter, and contact Mapbox Community if you need any help with our tools.

Thank you

This workshop would not have been possible without:

• The amazing OSM DRC organizers, especially Claire Halleux
• My fabulous colleagues at Mapbox, especially Mikel Maron, Marena Brinkhurst, and the Atlas team