Mash Something

From 2-4 pm the day before GIS Day, so Tuesday, November 18th, in the Hicks Undergraduate Library iLab, GIS Librarian Chris Miller will offer a hands-on workshop for anyone interested in creating an online map mashup. Mashups are all the rage, of course (or have been since ~2005, anyway), and the tools available to make them have increased almost exponentially. The session will walk through the basics of the mashup, with a look at both Google Maps and OpenLayers, then proceed to step through the process of creating your own. The objectives of this session:

  • create a simple map mashup using tabular data from some external source
  • achieve a better understanding of how these modern applications take advantage of data fluidity
  • understand the connection between these lightweight web apps and the larger field of GIS

    • The session is open to anybody. No previous experience is necessary, although it will help if you've seen some html before.

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    thumbnail of mash something slides

    The workshop document will be available here until approximately December 23, 2008. After this date the document will be available in perpetuity from the GIS Day section of the Purdue Libraries institutional repository.