developmentseed/febp-maps

Tilemill projects for the Federal Education Budget Project

FEBP map projects

These are the tilemill projects used to regenerate the maps that are hosted on the FEBP site.

Installing

1. Clone this repository by doing cd ~/Documents; git clone [email protected]:developmentseed/febp-maps.git

2. Install tilemill by using any of the installation methods.

3. Launch tilemill, and change the Documents path to point to the repository.

4. Restart tilemill to have changes take effect

Updating maps data

1. Log into FEBP site with the admin account

2. Upload a new dataset through the manage data system

3. Once the import has completed, the page will have a link to the database for the maps.

4. Download the database to ~/Documents/febp-maps/data

5. In Tilemill, choose from the projects the map you want to update and click on the layers button on the bottom left of the screen. (you will need to repeat this for each map)

6. Edit the #geo_data layer by clicking on the pencil icon next to the layer name.

7. Edit the attach database field to use the new file you downloaded.

8. click on export and select upload from the dropdown

9. Increment the version field on export form and click on save

10. Once the map has been uploaded it will be live.

febp-maps's Issues

Interested in the data

Hi,

If I'm interpreting this project about right, the sql lite data used was imported from some external source, is that correct? I'm hoping someone can point me at the canonical source or provenance point of the data set(s) used in this project? TIA!