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Lebanon Warriors Athletics Facilities

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 01:00:00 -0700

Aerial imagery of the athletic fields at Lebanon High School, Oregon
- 🥎 Ron Fuller Field
- ⚾️ Croco Field
- 🏈, 🏃‍♀️, ⚽️ Heath Stadium
2010 aerial imagery captured on Jul 13, 2010.
2022 aerial imagery captured in the summer of 2022.

Historical Maps of Butte, America

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 01:37:00 -0800

How to best use this map

Pan the map by clicking on the map and moving the mouse
Use the +/- to Zoom in and out
In the upper right hand corner, use the transparency slider to reveal the satellite image below

Butte 1940

See Summit Street (underlined in red)

USGS Quadrangle of Butte North, Montana

Surveyed in 1959, this beautiful, historical topographic map from the U.S. Geological Survey. 80 ft contours, Scale of 1:62500. Download your own Butte, America historical maps from USGS.gov

Interesting points of interest

Meaderville
Walkerville
Centerville
Berkeley Pit
Gimlet Gulch & Whiskey Gulch

Weather & Mobile maps for Black Canyon of the Colorado River

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0800

Weather & Mobile maps for Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

For our friends kayaking down the Colorado River on the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

Here are some points of interest from just below Hoover Dam down stream to Willow Beach, Arizona.

Location	Point Forecast from forecast.Weather.gov	Mobile
Black Canyon National Water Trail	Forecast for Black Canyon National Water Trail	mobile map for Black Canyon National Water Trail
Goldstrike Canyon Hot Springs	Forecast for Goldstrike Canyon Hot Springs	mobile map for Goldstrike Canyon Hot Springs
Boy Scout Canyon	Forecast for Boy Scout Canyon	mobile map for Boy Scout Canyon
White Rock Canyon	Forecast for White Rock Canyon	mobile map for White Rock Canyon
Ringbolt Rapids	Forecast for Ringbolt Rapids	mobile map for Ringbolt Rapids
Arizona Hot Springs	Forecast for Arizona Hot Springs	mobile map for Arizona Hot Springs
NPS Pit Toilet	Forecast for NPS Pit Toilet	mobile map for NPS Pit Toilet
The Chute	Forecast for The Chute	mobile map for The Chute
Cross Current Rapids	Forecast for Cross Current Rapids	mobile map for Cross Current Rapids
Big Sand Bar Rapids	Forecast for Big Sand Bar Rapids	mobile map for Big Sand Bar Rapids
Horseshoe Rapids	Forecast for Horseshoe Rapids	mobile map for Horseshoe Rapids
Cranes Nest Rapids	Forecast for Cranes Nest Rapids	mobile map for Cranes Nest Rapids
Indian Rapids	Forecast for Indian Rapids	mobile map for Indian Rapids
Gauger’s House	Forecast for Gauger’s House	mobile map for Gauger’s House
Willow Beach (Take out point)	Forecast for Willow Beach (Take out point)	mobile map for Willow Beach (Take out point)
Willow Beach Entrance Station	Forecast for Willow Beach Entrance Station	mobile map for Willow Beach Entrance Station
Arizona Hot Spring Liberty Bell Arch Trailhead	Forecast for Arizona Hot Spring Liberty Bell Arch Trailhead	mobile map for Arizona Hot Spring Liberty Bell Arch Trailhead
Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge	Forecast for Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge	mobile map for Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge

Map Sources: NPS.gov, Apple Maps.

Black Canyon, NPS Brochure Map. Printed from the map at NPS.gov/lake

Black Canyon, NPS Park Tiles. Printed from the map at NPS.gov/lake

Black Canyon, looking East

Black Canyon, looking North

Black Canyon, looking South

Black Canyon, looking West

WBC Weather & Trailheads

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:20:46 -0800

Point Forecast Weather for Desert Backpack Weekend

For our friends at WBC North County Group. Enjoy the kick off of back packing season in San Diego County.

Weather forecasts as of Thursday, Feb 9, 2023 at around noon. Check back to verify if weather has changed or, save the “Point Forecast” links for Weather.gov.

Location	Forecast Sat-Sun	forecast.Weather.gov	Mobile
Palo Verde Canyon	Sa 63/45° Su 60°	Point Forecast for Palo Verde Canyon	map for Palo Verde Canyon
Goat Canyon	Sa 63/42° Su 57°	Point Forecast for Goat Canyon	map for Goat Canyon
Inner Pasture	Sa 61/38° Su 57°	Point Forecast for Inner Pasture	map for Inner Pasture
Domelands	Sa 68/48° Su 61°	Point Forecast for Domelands	map for Domelands
Indian Hill	Sa 61/41° Su 56°	Point Forecast for Indian Hill	map for Indian Hill
Clark Lake	Sa 69/41° Su 66°	Point Forecast for Clark Lake	map for Clark Lake
Little Blair Valley	Sa 58/37° Su 55°	Point Forecast for Little Blair Valley	map for Little Blair Valley

Map Sources: Apple Maps, Apple MapKit

3D Satellite Map of Anza-Borrego & Imperial County for WBC Desert Backpack 2023

Satellite Map

Standard Map

Built with open source

Leica to RINEX

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:20:46 -0800

XYZ Raster Sources

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:20:46 -0800

Public Domain Map Tools

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0700

State Pages Redesign

Jun 27, 2024

The State Pages for NPS.gov have been upgraded to use MapLibre and the latest NPMap architecture from the Web Maps team at NPS.gov.

You can visit each of the 56 state & territory pages by adding your state’s abbreviation (in lower case) in the link to NPS.gov:

NPS.gov/<state-abbreviation>

For example, see the State Page for Alaska, or Massachusetts or Wyoming for your self by using these tiny URLs from NPS.gov.

Video 🎥: 56 State & territory pages from NPS.gov, all sized on an iPad Pro 13" screen. Updated with MapLibre + NPMap.

See NPS-State-Pages.mov to view in another tab, or to download.

Geospatial PDFs

Apr 11, 2023

Mobile device users for iOS & Android can make use of geospatial PDFs to view maps offline.

How it Works

When the protocol is https://, and the link is opened on a mobile device, it will open in the web browser. When you change the protocol to avenzamaps:// and Avenza Maps is already installed, then the link will open in Avenza. It will be downloaded, then processed for use as an offline map with GPS location.

Some NPS Park Units instruct customers to use “Avenza Maps”, search where units instruct customers to use Avenza at NPS.gov.

Rocky Mountain Fire Management Example

Open RoMo geospatial PDF in Browser
- https://github.com/roblabs/maps-for-non-profits/releases/download/NPS/Rocky.Mountain.National.Park.Fire.Mangement.pdf
- Original asset from NPGallery.NPS.gov
Or, Open RoMo geospatial PDF in Avenza Maps. Click on this link after you have Avenza Maps installed:

📲 🗺️ avenzamaps://server/Rocky.Mountain.National.Park.Fire.Mangement.pdf

Joshua Tree Example

Open JoTr geospatial PDF in Browser
- https://github.com/roblabs/maps-for-non-profits/releases/download/NPS/Joshua.Tree.pdf
- Original asset from NPGallery.NPS.gov
Or, Open JoTr geospatial PDF in Avenza Maps. Click on this link after you have Avenza Maps installed:

📲 🗺️ avenzamaps://server/Joshua.Tree.pdf

Install Avenza Maps for iOS or Android

Please see https://support.avenzamaps.com/hc/en-us/articles/5051433392020-Importing-maps-from-custom-locations for technical support.

📱
- Install from Apple App Store.
🤖
- Install from Google Play.

Weather from National Weather Service

Jan 23, 2023

🌡️ ☁️ ☀️ 🌦️ Weather.gov APIs for alerts & weather

Weather.gov has public facing weather data for both the public and developers. For example, at Cabrillo National Monument you can see the current weather, alerts and a forecast:

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-117.23965644836426&lat=32.674205348845035

A customer can use the map at forecast.weather.gov to adjust their location, and save a bookmark for future reference.

Weather.gov also has programmable API, where a location is passed to /points and the response a GeoJSON. Also note, if you pass too many digits of precision, the /points response will round it down to four significant figures, or an approximate precision of about 10 meters.

https://api.weather.gov/points/32.674205348845035,-117.23965644836426
- https://api.weather.gov/points/32.6742,-117.2397

Since the response is GeoJSON, it can be opened the Park Tiles version of GeoJSON.io

Within the GeoJSON data response from /points, there is a property called forecast:

MapLibre Plugins

Jan 9, 2023

MapLibre Plugins of interest to public domain maps.

Dec 12, 2022

MapLibre Plugins for ArcGIS layers, Carto layers, Interactivity, Overview map and WMS layers. See NPMap5 Plugins for live demos.

🗺️ 🔌 🧭 📍 Examples of the NPMap5 Plugins: Interactivity, Overview, Layers (ArcGIS, Carto, WMS)

ArcGIS layer

Carto layer

Interactivity

Overview map

WMS layer

Updates to GeoJSON.io for Public Domain Maps

Nov 18, 2022

We have made updates to GeoJSON.io by adding a button to easily add GeoJSON data from a URL onto a custom styled map. See the custom styled map at RobLabs.com/geojson, and use the notes below to visualize your own GeoJSON data via URL.

🗺️ 📍 Visualize GeoJSON in Joshua Tree National Park

GeoJSON.io was developed by Mapbox and is “a quick, simple tool for creating, viewing, and sharing spatial data”. It is a perfect way to visualize, test or learn how GeoJSON data is created, formatted, styled or inspected.

Open GeoJSON at RobLabs.com/geojson

Say you want to visualize this GeoJSON from Joshua Tree:
1. https://maps.nps.gov/livemaps/api/sites?code=jotr&source=National_DataSet&format=geojson&liveinfo=true&apikey=CfJDEBe7xKJ8v6xZOMkh7AaUGF70dBe3
You can open a version of GeoJSON.io with Public Domain Styles
1. RobLabs.com/geojson
2. Since we are using a style served by Mapbox protocols, then we can make use of the latest Mapbox projections & rendering SDK.
3. Check out the help section for details on how to import data into this tool. The help section is the in the upper right corner of the web page.
Once have opened the app, then paste your GeoJSON URL into the menu item Meta, New Window.
1. Sub-windows > Meta > 🪟 New Window with GeoJSON URL, then paste your GeoJSON
2. Or, Click on this link, which encodes the GeoJSON URL
  1. https://roblabs.com/geojson/#data=data:text/x-url,https%3A%2F%2Fmaps.nps.gov%2Flivemaps%2Fapi%2Fsites%3Fcode%3Djotr%26source%3DNational_DataSet%26format%3Dgeojson%26liveinfo%3Dtrue%26apikey%3DCfJDEBe7xKJ8v6xZOMkh7AaUGF70dBe3

🗺️ 📍 Visualize GeoJSON from Natural Earth Data

Open GeoJSON at GeoJSON.io

Natural Earth Data can be loaded a GeoJSON URL. The encoded URL for the Tiny Countries GeoJSON data from Natural Earth is

https://geojson.io/#data=data:text/x-url,https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githack.com%2Fnvkelso%2Fnatural-earth-vector%2Fmaster%2Fgeojson%2Fne_110m_admin_0_tiny_countries.geojson

Video 🎥 🔈: GeoJSON.io with Public Domain Maps

Demo of RobLabs.com/geojson with Public Domain Maps

Park Tiles Style Offramps

Oct 3, 2022

If you have an Atlas style, This Observable notebook demonstrates how to use Atlas styles in other rendering tools such as QGIS, ArcGIS Online, MapLibre or GeoJSON.io. See the JavaScript Notebook at https://observablehq.com/@roblabs/park-tiles-style-offramps.

Video 🎥: Park Tiles Style Offramps

Demo of Park Tiles Style Offramps from Observable.

Build Lebanon Trails

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 02:37:00 -0700

Print #mapsForNonProfits

During the summer of 2021, we worked with the Build Lebanon Trails Association (BLT) to help them with their trail maps as they start to build more trails in Lebanon, Oregon. We started our pro bono work by making two trailhead kiosk maps that measured 2’x3’ for use at kiosks on their marquee trail: The Old Mill Trail.

The project, from BLT’s requirements to kiosk map printing and a ribbon cutting ceremony, took about 5 months. At the ceremony, Build Lebanon Trails had two great looking trailhead kiosks with maps and historical photos & information on the Lebanon area.

But for five months of work, we had only produced two maps, one at each end of the trailhead that would only be seen or used by those physically at the trailheads. Though the main goal is getting more people outdoors, geospatial software tools could help deliver more maps into more people’s hands.

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Figure 1: Print map of the Build Lebanon Trails system. A 20”x30” print from a nationwide print retailer.

The Same Map on the trailhead in print, web & mobile

The Product Matrix from a Print Workflow

When you start with raster data designed for print, then your options for futher products increases. We started with a kiosk map, and our knowledge of Geospatial tools helped us make more products for BLT.

Details: How the Product Matrix image was built

flowchart LR

A[OSM Extract] -->|+ QGIS Print Layout| B[Raster GeoTIFF]
B --> C{GeoTIFF\n\n1. Print\n2. Mobile\n3. Web\nProducts}
C -->|print| D[__ 3'x5' Kiosk map]
C -->|print| E[__ 20x30 Poster]
C -->|print| F[__ Maps for Social Media]
C -->|mobile| G[__ Share the World, RobLabs.com/stw]
C -->|mobile| H[__ Avenza]
C -->|web| I[__ Leaflet]
C -->|web| J[__ COGeoTIFF]

What We built for BLT

🖨️ 2021 Goal: Maps for Trailheads

A 2’x3’ print map using OpenStreetMap data + BLT Trail data + Satellite Imagery, built with the QGIS Print Layout engine.
- A 20”x30” print map for use at events, or as fundraising gifts for sponsors.
- Cartograpic Symbology was follows the National Park Service Symbol Library standard for a common look & feel.

🤳 2021 Goal: `#mapsForSocialMedia`

Making use of the QGIS Atlas Tool to generate square images for marketing and sharing on Social Media.

🍁 2021 Goal: Maps for Web

A Leaflet based map delivered to BLT for marketing their trails on their web site. Leaflet allows for links that allow you set the zoom and location directly in the link. See:
Riverview Park
Gills Landing

☁️ 2021 Goal: Efficient Map for Web

A Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF consumes print ready GeoTIFF files that can be proofed by BLT on a web page. Instead of distributing a 250 MB file to be downloaded and displayed, we used COG to efficiently consume the GeoTIFF file and stream the portions of the map that BLT needed to review.

📱 2022 Goal: Offline Maps for Mobile

See the iPhone app specifically built for iMessage at RobLabs.com/stw.

Print Details for Build Lebanon Trails

This is a 2’x3’ map that is print ready with dimensions of 7200 × 10800 pixels at 300 pixels per inch.
- November 2021 - final version v2021-11-02
- For a web version of this 2’x3’ map, see this Leaflet map. This can be integrated into the Build Lebanon Trails website by downloading this 97 MB Zip file.
- This 13 MB JPEG version of the map should only be downloaded if you are interested in printing your own copy of the map. The image size is 7200 × 10800 for printing at 300 pixels per inch.
- This 53 MB Zipfile contains five maps scaled at 8”x10” for use for printing on letter size pages.

Maps for Mobile

“Share the World” with your iMessage contacts by sharing the trails, points of interest, and places that you have explored.”

See the iPhone app specifically built for iMessage at RobLabs.com/stw. This app was built on Apple MapKit which allows for layering raster tiles on top of an Apple Maps baselayer.

This allowed us to make use of Apple Maps and 3D maps for National Parks such as Joshua Tree & Yosemite.

If the Video doesn’t load, click this link.

Avenza Offramps with a GeoTIFF

We built a version of the Build Lebanon Trails map to work as a Offline Maps for Mobile. And it is designed to work with Avenza Maps, a free download availabe for iOS & Android.

Note: From the Avenza Support site on how many maps you can download.

“You are able to import an unlimited number of your own maps, however, only 3 maps will be able to use the tools contained within Avenza Maps such as location, placemark creation, & tracking.”

iOS

Install from Apple App Store and & open Avenza Maps. Use iOS docs from Avenza if you need additional assistance.

Tap this this link when Avenza Maps is installed: Build-Lebanon-Trails-2x3

We have created 1024 × 1024 pixel images that are perfect for sharing trailheads on social media.

COG

Online version in a full window.
This is a 250 MB TIFF, which is not ideal for sharing. Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF allows for efficient distributions of tiles.
You’ll never have to say again, “did you receive my 250 MB image attachment?!?”

Details: How a COG URL is built

https://tiles.rdnt.io/preview?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fcom.roblabs.yellow-dog%2Fblt%2FBuild-Lebanon-Trails-2x3-Gill.JPEG.tif&rgb=1%2C2%2C3&nodata=&resample=#14/44.5393/-122.9059
This demo built on Lambda serverless at AWS
URL encoded path to a GeoTIFF: https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/com.roblabs.yellow-dog/blt/Build-Lebanon-Trails-2x3-Gill.tif
Resample=cubic
Hash to a Zoom, Latitude, Longitude

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QGIS Details

🗺️🇺🇸 You can easily import an OpenStreetMap extract, map.osm, directly into QGIS. The map requirements were that we had to match previous versions of the map.

🗺️🇺🇸 In order to reduce or remove some of the extra OpenStreetMap data, QGIS allows for filtering. Therefore, Streets in black were heavily filtered by ignoring or filtering by name or osm_id.

Example of filtering:

-- Identify by Name or OSM ID, the lines you wish to remove
"name" = 'Tangent Street;Corvallis-Lebanon Highway'
OR "name" = 'Hansard Avenue'
OR "name" = 'Reeves Parkway'
OR ("name" = 'Harrison Street'
 AND "osm_id" = '5503677')
OR "name" = 'North 5th Street'
OR ("name" = 'South 5th Street'
    AND "osm_id" = '539462662'
    OR "osm_id" = '876011733')

OR "osm_id" = '113666889'
OR "osm_id" = '5504321'
-- ...

Demo of Building up the Map Layers

We have many layers, but before we consider printing, we need to do filtering in QGIS.

Click on the images to start the demo.

In this demo, you will see several states of how the map is produced.

Image 1: “Satellite only without any OpenStreetMap nor trails.”
Image 2: “Unfiltered OpenStreetMap data.”
Image 3: “Filtered OpenStreetMap data without trails.”
Image 4: “What was shipped to the printer.”

Static Map Image Gallery

Details: Static Map Image Gallery

Built using YAML for data & LiquidJS for templating.
JavaScript-free: only uses HTML & CSS for cases where JavaScript could or is disabled.

# Liquid code
# 
{% for item in items %}
  {%- if forloop.first == true -%} 
   {% comment %} snip code listing {% endcomment %} 
   {{ item.title }} — {{ item.caption | replace: "\n", "<br/>" }}
#    

items:
- url: https://github.com/roblabs/maps-for-non-profits/releases/download/v2021-11-02/blt-satellite.jpg
  title: 'Build Lebanon Trails'
  caption: 'Satellite only without any OpenStreetMap nor trails.'
- url: https://github.com/roblabs/maps-for-non-profits/releases/download/v2021-11-02/blt-OSM-no-filtering.jpg
  title: 'Build Lebanon Trails'
  caption: 'Unfiltered OpenStreetMap data.'
- url: https://github.com/roblabs/maps-for-non-profits/releases/download/v2021-11-02/blt-no-trails.jpg
  title: 'Build Lebanon Trails'
  caption: 'Filtered OpenStreetMap data without trails.'
- url: https://github.com/roblabs/maps-for-non-profits/releases/download/v2021-11-02/blt.jpg
  title: 'Build Lebanon Trails'
  caption: 'What was shipped to the printer.'

WBC 50 Hikes Challenge

Sat, 15 May 2021 01:20:46 -0700

This map was custom built for the Sierra Club San Diego. The North County Group is highlighting their 50 Hike Challenge.

Link to the full screen map: RobLabs.com/50

Video: Demo of 50 Hike Challenge map

Demo of 50 Hike Challenge map made for the North County San Diego group of the Sierra Club.

Colophon

Architecture & Design Choices

The map is based on Apple Maps, interactive maps on the Web, which offers standard and satellite maps types. While Apple Maps will work on most browsers for desktop and mobile, the customer may want to view the landmark in their favorite map app on their mobile phone.

The landmark callouts were designed with a mobile first experience in mind.

Tapping on a hike location brings up the landmark callout. From there the customer can choose a link to open a map app that offers features they expect: directions, map printing, saving & sharing of landmarks via text or social media, or possibly offline map downloads. Customers viewing this map on Mac, iPhone or Android can enjoy the proper map app for their system. Making a map also should take into consideration a customers privacy¹.

Landmark callout with hike details, and links to Apple or Google Maps.

Embedded interactive Apple maps for the web offer standard and satellite maps types.

¹Apple states that “Maps helps you find your way without compromising your privacy”.

Cartography

The landmark callout include the distance, elevation and comments as provided by the Sierra Club.
- The layout of the landmark callout is handled by Apple Maps, with customization of HTML elements such as headers and links.
The font for the landmark callouts is Montserrat which is also one of the 50 hikes (Monserate Mountain Trail).
The color palette for the landmark callouts also comes from the North County Group
- #00bfff, RGB = (0, 191, 255), DeepSkyBlue
- #f4a460, RGB = (244, 164, 96), SandyBrown

Square images ready for social media

Inaja Trail and Santa Ysabel Open Space Preserve East & West.

Observatory Trail Overlook and Lower Doan Valley & French Valley

Apple Guides

Apple Guides was announced in June 2020 as a new product for their Maps app.

Explore new places with Guides in Maps on iPhone. Guides from trusted brands and partners are available in the Maps app. In the Maps app , you can organize places into your own guides. Add a place to your Guides on your iPhone: Tap “Save to,” then choose one of your guides.

Apple Guides for the 50 Hike Challenge
- Errata: Apple Guides shows that there are only 42/50 landmarks when clicking on the link. But all 50 landmarks are there. So use with caution.

Data

CSV

The raw data can be found at wbc50.csv. You can view the data in the browser or download the raw data.

Include the map on your site

iframe for use in other websites

<iframe allowfullscreen="true"
  mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"
  style="height: 85vh; width: 95vw;"  
  src="https://3linemaps.com/50.html">
  <p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>
</iframe>

List of Hikes

Click here for the list of hikes in HTML format. With links to Apple Maps & Google Maps. 👉

1. Battle Mountain Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
2. Bernardo Mountain Apple Maps | Google Maps
3. Black Canyon Apple Maps | Google Maps
4. Blue Sky Reserve to Lake Ramona Apple Maps | Google Maps
5. Boden Canyon Apple Maps | Google Maps
6. Buena Vista Park Loop Apple Maps | Google Maps
7. Caballo Trail to Stanley Peak Apple Maps | Google Maps
8. Cedar Creek Falls Apple Maps | Google Maps
9. Clevenger Canyon North Apple Maps | Google Maps
10. Clevenger Canyon South Apple Maps | Google Maps
11. Coast to Crest San Pasqual Valley Apple Maps | Google Maps
12. Daley Ranch - Boulder Loop Apple Maps | Google Maps
13. Daley Ranch - Englemann Oak Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
14. Daley Ranch - Ranch House Apple Maps | Google Maps
15. Del Dios Highlands Preserve Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
16. Double Peak Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
17. Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve Apple Maps | Google Maps
18. Ellie Lane Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
19. Fry Koegel Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
20. Hellers Bend Preserve Apple Maps | Google Maps
21. Highland Valley Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
22. Inaja Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
23. Iron Mountain Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
24. Lake Hodges - North Shore Apple Maps | Google Maps
25. Lusardi Loop Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
26. Los Jilgueros Apple Maps | Google Maps
27. Love Valley Apple Maps | Google Maps
28. Lower Doan Valley and French Valley Apple Maps | Google Maps
29. Monserate Mountain Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
30. Mt Gower Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
31. Mule Deer Trail to Denk Mountain Apple Maps | Google Maps
32. Mule Hill Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
33. Observatory Trail Overlook Apple Maps | Google Maps
34. Pamo Valley Apple Maps | Google Maps
35. Paradise Mountain Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
36. Piedras Pintadas Trailhead Apple Maps | Google Maps
37. Questhaven Road Nature Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
38. Rancho Guajome Adobe Apple Maps | Google Maps
39. Raptor Ridge Apple Maps | Google Maps
40. Santa Fe Valley Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
41. Santa Margarita County Preserve Apple Maps | Google Maps
42. Santa Ysabel Open Space Preserve East Apple Maps | Google Maps
43. Santa Ysabel Open Space Preserve West Apple Maps | Google Maps
44. Sycamore Canyon Preserve Apple Maps | Google Maps
45. Tooth Rock Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
46. Twin Peaks Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
47. Van Damm Mountain Apple Maps | Google Maps
48. Vista Conservancy Nature Trail Apple Maps | Google Maps
49. West Side Road Apple Maps | Google Maps
50. Wilderness Gardens Preserve Apple Maps | Google Maps

License

Images

App icons in the landmark callouts are sourced from Wikipedia.

Apple Maps logo
- Attribution: Apple Inc.SVG by CMetalCore, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- This map is an independent publication and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc. Apple is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions.
Google Maps logo
- Attribution: Google Inc.SVG by Premeditated, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- The “Google Maps™” name and other trademarks are property of Google LLC
NOAA log
- Attribution: Badseed, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- This map is an independent publication and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration nor the United States Government.

Data

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Maps are complex, static images are simple.

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 01:37:00 -0800

Presented as part of the Mapbox Lunchbox Webinar Series

Thursday, December 10, 2020, 12:00 pm (PST)
Register at Mapbox.com

Overview

Maps tell stories about a location – and static maps are the “stock photo” version of a map: a simple snapshot, complete with points and lines that direct the viewer to precise location knowledge.

How a map is distributed and consumed is as important as the cartography elements. A static map for print will need plenty of pixels for proper output. A static map for social media or messaging applications might look best as motionless, or the story could be enhanced with animation. The ultimate use case for a static map is to create an anchor to click through to your web or mobile map.

The Mapbox Static Images API can be used in applications where Javascript or an interactive maps cannot be used.

You’ll learn how to…

Use Mapbox Studio to export high resolution images of custom map styles.
Use the Mapbox Static Images API to create static map images from a URL.
Use the Mapbox Static Tiles API to pull your Mapbox GL styled map into a print workflow using open source software for Geospatial such QGIS or GeoJSON.io

Examples

1. Static Images with Open Tools

Analysis of communicating the Valley Fire in San Diego County, Sep 2020.

Static maps can be animated to give the proper affect – see The Valley Fire in San Diego County for an example of enabling “location enlightenment” to propagate widespread understanding of a piece of spatial information.

Created with Mapbox Styles + GeoJson.io for collaboration; text added in post processing. Stock MAKI icons, line fill and thickness done using Mapbox Simple Styling in GeoJSON.io (see it on Twitter).

Valley Fire, San Diego County, Sep 8, 2020

Fire Officials do an amazing job communicating information
#ValleyFire
- Centered near Alpine, California— eastern San Diego County
Road Closures announced by CalFire
A map is as enlightening as a photo
Animation allows for two different basemaps

Valley Fire, San Diego County, Sep 10, 2020

2. Static Images from the Command Line

Image of a baseball field in Solano County, CA, produced using the Mapbox command line interface. The goal is to tell the story of a location through its metadata or physical dimensions.

Uses the mapbox staticmap command line interface to Mapbox Web Services

`mapbox staticmap`

mapbox staticmap \
  --lon -122.24435 --lat 38.09698 \
  --zoom 18 \
  mapbox.satellite \
  tmp/wilson-park-vallejo.png

# open in macOS Preview
open tmp/wilson-park-vallejo.png

Wilson Park Dimensions in GeoJSON

Copy & open in GeoJSON.io
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{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"title1","stroke":"#ffffff","stroke-width":4,"stroke-opacity":1},"geometry":{"type":"LineString","coordinates":[[-122.244418,38.0964],[-122.245081,38.097126]]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"title2","stroke":"#ffffff","stroke-width":4,"stroke-opacity":1},"geometry":{"type":"LineString","coordinates":[[-122.244418,38.0964],[-122.243488,38.09693]]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"stroke":"#ff2600","stroke-width":2,"stroke-opacity":1},"geometry":{"type":"LineString","coordinates":[[-122.244418,38.0964],[-122.2442,38.097429]]}}]}

Static Image of Wilson Park with Simple Styling

ZOOM=18;
LAT=38.09698;
LON=-122.24410;
mapbox staticmap \
  --lon $LON --lat \
  \ $LAT --zoom $ZOOM \
  --size 800 800 \
  mapbox.satellite \
  --features wilson-lines.geojson \
  tmp/wilson-park-lines-vallejo-$ZOOM.png

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Playground: Static Images API

https://docs.mapbox.com/playground/static

3. #mapsForNonProfits

Public education on the proposed Harvest Hills development near Escondido, CA. Map built for the Sierra Club, North County Group using the Mapbox Static Images API. Map was provided as a URL so that proper accounting could be done.

Visualizing the Harvest Hills Development in San Diego County

See Video on YouTube
- Looping video here

Distributing a Map

Get your attribution on to meet your obligations with Mapbox Terms of Service: RobLabs.com/hh

How to distribute a static map

Usage

Please attribute somewhere the following
- © Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap
- Why Attribution? From the Mapbox Terms of Service.
  - Attribution is required and must adhere to our terms of service. Text-only attribution is required for print: © Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap
Decide on a zoom level and notice that more or less map context comes into play
Please embed the following <img> Web page, without alterations.

For HTML web pages

<img
     src="https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/roblabs/ckfu88kw71iks19mwc51txswx/static/-117.0504,33.1151,11.5,0/1080x1080@2x?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoicm9ibGFicyIsImEiOiJwVlg0cnZnIn0.yhekddtKwZohGoORaWjqIw"
     width="" height=""
     alt=""  >

For Wordpress

https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/roblabs/ckfu88kw71iks19mwc51txswx/static/-117.0504,33.1151,11.5,0/1080x1080?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoicm9ibGFicyIsImEiOiJwVlg0cnZnIn0.yhekddtKwZohGoORaWjqIw

Harvest Hills Map

4. Print Maps from Mapbox.com/studio

Use Mapbox Studio to export high resolution images of custom map styles.

Mapbox.com/studio
- Harvest Hills Streets
- San Diego River Watershed

Features

Save as JPEG or PNG
up to 8k x 8k pixels
- 300 ppi is good enough for a 8x10” image (2,400 px x 3,000 px)
- 144 ppi is pretty good for sharing over a messaging app

5. Mapbox Static Tiles API for QGIS

Use the Mapbox Static Tiles API to pull your Mapbox GL styled map into a print workflow using open source software for Geospatial such QGIS or GeoJSON.io

QGIS

In Mapbox Studio, you can export your style to QGIS.

Share > Third Party > Carto > copy Integration URL
Paste into QGIS

See notes and documentation on how to add static tiles:

github.com/roblabs/xyz-raster-sources

About ePi Rational, Inc.

We make #mapsForNonProfits for Social Media. And print. And Mobile.

We are a California S-Corp based in San Diego. Work presented here is product research from Spring 2020.

RobLabs is a hat tip to my mentor & colleagues at Hewlett-Packard Corvallis & San Diego. HP and HP Labs used to publish technical research on a regular basis via the HP Journal. In that spirit, this site aims to publish software and research for product development.

FOSS4G and Our Projects

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial sponsored by ePi Rational, Inc.

#mapsForNonProfits
Open Source Code
twitter.com/robchohan/status/1303345618543206400
Instagram
Awesome!! tools and tricks - including many GeoJSON tools
Research into products around Mapbox GL Native

Offline Maps for Mobile

Apple App Store
Open Source demo of Offline Maps for Mobile for iOS
Mapbox Starter for iOS
Fork of mapbox-gl-native with WebP image decompression for smaller rasters in offline maps

Make a PDF of your Mapbox map (with attribution):

‍RobLabs.com/print

RobLabs.com

Lebanon Warriors Athletics Facilities

Historical Maps of Butte, America

How to best use this map

Butte 1940

USGS Quadrangle of Butte North, Montana

Interesting points of interest

Weather & Mobile maps for Black Canyon of the Colorado River

Weather & Mobile maps for Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

WBC Weather & Trailheads

Point Forecast Weather for Desert Backpack Weekend

Leica to RINEX

XYZ Raster Sources

Public Domain Map Tools

State Pages Redesign

Jun 27, 2024

Geospatial PDFs

Apr 11, 2023

How it Works

Rocky Mountain Fire Management Example

Joshua Tree Example

Weather from National Weather Service

Jan 23, 2023

MapLibre Plugins

Jan 9, 2023

Dec 12, 2022

Updates to GeoJSON.io for Public Domain Maps

Nov 18, 2022

Open GeoJSON at RobLabs.com/geojson

Open GeoJSON at GeoJSON.io

Video 🎥 🔈: GeoJSON.io with Public Domain Maps

Park Tiles Style Offramps

Oct 3, 2022

Video 🎥: Park Tiles Style Offramps

Build Lebanon Trails

Print #mapsForNonProfits

The Same Map on the trailhead in print, web & mobile

The Product Matrix from a Print Workflow

What We built for BLT

🖨️ 2021 Goal: Maps for Trailheads

🤳 2021 Goal: #mapsForSocialMedia

🍁 2021 Goal: Maps for Web

☁️ 2021 Goal: Efficient Map for Web

📱 2022 Goal: Offline Maps for Mobile

Print Details for Build Lebanon Trails

Maps for Mobile

Share the World

Video: Build Lebanon Trails with Share the World for iPhone

Avenza Offramps with a GeoTIFF

iOS

Maps for Social Media

COG

QGIS Details

Demo of Building up the Map Layers

Static Map Image Gallery

WBC 50 Hikes Challenge

Video: Demo of 50 Hike Challenge map

Colophon

Architecture & Design Choices

Cartography

Apple Guides

Data

CSV

Include the map on your site

List of Hikes

License

Images

Data

Maps are complex, static images are simple.

Presented as part of the Mapbox Lunchbox Webinar Series

Overview

Examples

1. Static Images with Open Tools

Valley Fire, San Diego County, Sep 8, 2020

Valley Fire, San Diego County, Sep 10, 2020

2. Static Images from the Command Line

mapbox staticmap

Wilson Park Dimensions in GeoJSON

Static Image of Wilson Park with Simple Styling

Playground: Static Images API

🤳 2021 Goal: `#mapsForSocialMedia`

`mapbox staticmap`