[RNLD] Creating linguistic maps

[Aidan Wilson]

+1 for tilemill, however a caution that the learning curve can be steep.

At Melbourne University last year there were a couple of tilemill course
for staff and students. The linguistics contingent was impressive. Layer
data for various political boundaries can be found from a variety of online
sources, and you can even create polygons in something like Google Earth or
Google Maps and export them in a form that tilemill can import.

The visual customisation is through cartoCSS, which is a specific
cartographic implementation of CSS (as the name might suggest). The
documentation of tilemill is also quite good and the online community of
users is large enough that you should be able to solicit help for various
aspects of the program.

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Aidan Wilson

School of Languages and Linguistics
aidan.wilson at unimelb.edu.au
0428 458 969

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Doug Marmion <doug.marmion at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’ve found TileMill be good for this kind of purpose, as well as easy to
> use.
>
> https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/
>
>
> cheers,
> doug
>
>
> On 23 Sep 2014, at 13:19, Hiram Ring <hiram1 at e.ntu.edu.sg> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >  This may have been asked previously, but I'm trying to create a new map
> to illustrate rough language boundaries, and I'm having difficulty finding
> a simple way to do so. I know R has various options and can get geo-data
> from GIS, but that seems like a steep learning curve. Google mapmaker and
> other online services that I have found do not provide enough visualization
> options (you get roads or satellite data, but no district boundaries in
> India, for example, and can't fill or highlight areas).
> >
> >  Can anyone recommend some options for creating linguistic maps?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hiram
> > _______________
> > Hiram Ring
> > PhD Student, Grammatical Description and Documentation
> > Nanyang Technological University
> > http://linguistics.hss.ntu.edu.sg
>
>
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