Wayfinding and map data: so many (conflicting) data sources out there, so little time - but so much potential for losing your future students before you’ve even made the pitch. We’ll briefly review ways to correct your campus data in major mapping systems, and then we’ll use that data to form the building blocks of a fairly easy to build, inexpensive, mobile-friendly interactive map for your campus. Presented at the 2016 Higher Education Web Professionals Association (HighEdWeb) Annual Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.
Building a Better (Campus) Map - #DPA1 at #heweb16
1. Building a Better (Campus) Map
Better campus mapping - coming soon to a campus near you.
Aaron Knight • SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry • #heweb16 #dpa1 • @farktal
2. Building a Better Campus Map
Welcome!
Today’s Agenda:
Background
Fixing Data on Map
Services
Easy Interactive Maps
8. Let’s Talk About Data
Major services to worry about:
Google MapMaker (and Places, Plus,
and Maps)
OpenStreetMap
HERE
Each service has its… quirks.
9. Let’s Talk About Data
Data Overload
Major data sources have required a
great deal of cleanup.
Especially a problem with published
full directories.
Lots of Inputs
Some of them are even good.
Image from “Apple made a bad move replacing Google Maps on iOS 6” - It’s A Gadget. https://www.itsagadget.com/2012/09/apple-google-maps-ios-6.html
10. The Google-Sphere
Maps, Map Maker, Local, Plus, Oh My!
Google Logo from googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/google-update.html - Service screenshots from September 2015.
11. The Google-Sphere
You might have heard of Google Map Maker before…
Image from Ars Technica “Google temporarily shuts down Map Maker due to vandalism.” http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/05/google-temporarily-shuts-down-map-maker-due-to-vandalism/
12. The Google-Sphere
Google Maps is fed by several sources:
Maps (user error reports)
Map Maker
Places
Plus
Internal staff
…the combination of which is far from
perfect.
Google Maps - iOS app icon. Map source: Google Maps
13. The Google-Sphere
Fastest way to fix map information?
Google Map Maker
Fastest way to fix POIs?
Google Local places (if claimed)
Google Map Maker if not.
16. OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is important because…
Used for Facebook, Apple Maps,
Foursquare, Craigslist
No real moderation.
It’s really easy to work with for your
own purposes.
www.openstreetmap.org
27. That’s All, Folks!
Questions?
Contact Information
Aaron Knight
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Information Systems, SUNY-ESF
@farktal on Twitter
acknight@esf.edu
Slides: www.acknight.com/speaking/
Also all of the code samples you saw
today.
Editor's Notes
There are plugins to improve accuracy. SetView:false broken in 1.0
Some browsers now require this to be hosted over SSL to work.
MapBox tiles - free for 50k views/month, inexpensive beyond that