Getting Started With the Mapbox JavaScript API
By Alex Korban
Learn about the Mapbox JavaScript API, a fully featured, flexible alternative to Google Maps.
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Oct 15, 2014
Duration
2h 8m
Table of contents
The Basics
Introduction
3m
Mapbox Overview
3m
API Access
4m
Creating a Map
3m
Map Object Options and Methods
4m
Multiple Map Layers
3m
Scale and Attribution Controls
4m
Code Recap
1m
Summary
1m
Displaying Data
Introduction
1m
Coordinates and Layers
4m
Markers
3m
Feature Layers
2m
GeoJSON Layers
4m
Geolocation API
7m
Updating a GeoJSON Layer
2m
Polylines
3m
Polygons
4m
KML and geojson.io
4m
Summary
1m
Adding Interactivity
Introduction
1m
Event Handling
3m
Zoom on Double Click Demo
3m
Zoom Event Demo
7m
Filter Markers by Type Demo
6m
Populate Sidebar on Mouse Events Demo
5m
Summary
2m
Going Further
Description
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Oct 15, 2014
Duration
2h 8m
Description
This course introduces web developers to the Mapbox JavaScript API, a fully featured, flexible alternative to the Google Maps API. Mapbox provides both tile-based and vector maps (a point of difference from the Google Maps API). Developers will learn how to add maps to their applications, how to alter the visual style of the maps, how to overlay a variety of geospatial data on the maps, and how to implement features requiring interactivity.
About the author
About the author
Alex Korban is an author and consultant with an interest in functional programming, databases and geospatial applications. He co-founded a company to visualize geospatial data and wrote several books.
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