Printing Mapbox GL JS maps in Firefox
I’m making a print/embed thing with Mapbox GL JS, and one of the problems I ran into involved printing with Firefox. As in, it doesn’t print.
Put your map in a ES2015 class
Of late I have been leveraging ES2015 classes for my map components. It’s a good thing to do.
GL JS data driven styling experiments
Vector Tiles talk at CMGUG
That’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg GIS User Group for those that don’t speak acronym.
Map style for April Fool's Day
I had a free day and decided to do a new map style for April Fool’s Day. This seemed less likely to get me yelled at than, say, setting everyone’s appraisal value to $0.
GeoPortal migrated to Mapbox GL JS
My migration of GeoPortal from Leaflet to Mapbox GL JS is live (Github). I’m using a combination of OSM2VectorTiles, some vector tiles of our own data created with Tippecanoe, and a few WMS raster overlays here and there from GeoServer. I’ve passed five hours in the office without anybody flinging feces at me, which is my most reliable success metric.
Leaflet to Mapbox GL
### TL;DR
**The Good**
* Snappy performance *after* initial load
* Lower network traffic *after* initial page load
* Vector tile goodness
The Bad
- Initial page load is harsh
- Go ZXY or go home
The Ugly
- Adding a marker is less abstract than it should be
- It forgets everything if you switch styles
ZXY to WMS Proxy
I’ve been moving GeoPortal to Mapbox GL JS, and one of the pain points I hit is the lack of WMS support. That’s one of those I don’t like it but I understand things.
Vector Tiles Part 3
Vector Tiles Part 2