Last night was MaptimeATX’s first full-fledged meetup and it was a big success! We had a full house of approximately 30 people in MakerSquare’s ancillary classroom on Brazos Street in Downtown Austin. Pizza and drinks from Hoboken Pies were graciously provided by Rackspace.
James gave a presentation on Web Mapping Fundamentals, which covered the basics pieces of moden web maps, such as tiles, web mapping libraries, and vectors. After the presentation was a brief coding exercise where attendees learned how to use Leaflet to make simple web maps of their own.
The presentation is available online at http://maptimeatx.github.io/web-mapping-fundamentals/, and the source files for it are in MaptimeATX’s GitHub account at https://github.com/MaptimeATX.
Thanks to all who came out to our first meetup, and we look forward to seeing you all at the next one! Stay tuned for details!