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Michael Corey is a news applications developer at the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, California.
Tutorials Archive
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Tutorial part 2: Create beautiful hillshade maps from digital elevation models with GDAL and Mapnik
Posted on February 25, 2011 | No CommentsIn part 1 of our GDAL and Mapnik hillshade map tutorial, we used GDAL to convert tiled USGS digital elevation models to a merged GeoTIFF. When also reprojected the map to Mercator and used a California border shapefile to cut... -
Tutorial: Create beautiful hillshade maps from digital elevation models with GDAL and Mapnik
Posted on February 5, 2011 | No CommentsMapnik is your best friend if you want to create map tiles for a slippy map or just want an open-source way to output high-quality printed maps for a wide variety of uses. Though for your first project I might... -
Google Maps API hands-on training, part 2
Posted on March 9, 2010 | 1 CommentThe notes from a hands-on class I'm helping teach at NICAR 2010 in Phoenix this week. -
Google Maps API hands-on training, part 1
Posted on March 7, 2010 | 1 CommentThe notes from a hands-on class I'm helping teach at NICAR 2010 in Phoenix this week.