Web Mapping Is Easy with Mango (PDF Included!)
Want to make a web map but worried it’s just too hard? Follow this simple tutorial to see how simple it is to make amazing interactive webmaps with Mango. Sign up for your free 30 day trial and start mapping today! Make your first MangoMap from MangoMap No time now? Make-your-first-MangoMap.compressed
3 Free GIS Data Portals
You’ve got your data, but what happens when you need to visualize it against something else, like regional employment data, or solar PV capacity by region? There’s a plethora of freely available GIS data out there – some good, some bad – so here’s 3 repositories well worthy of a coveted spot on your bookmarks bar.
3 More Free Map Icon Packs
It’s been a while since we last featured 3 great map icon sets for customising your Mango, and the world of icons has grown in leaps and bounds since. Here’s 3 more free map icons packs to use on your maps.
How to Get Your Web Maps to the Top of Google Search
After the positive feedback of our previous post 4 Ways to Increase the Visibility of Your Web Maps, which contained a section on SEO (search engine optimization) for web web maps, I decided that this is a subject that deserves its own post so we can really get into the details. SEO for web maps is particularly challenging because search engines use the text in a web page in order to index it and ordinarily web maps contain very little plain text. In this article I will be sharing some tips and tricks that will help your web maps achieve […]
5 Things GIS Professionals Need to Consider When Building a Web GIS
Web GIS applications are becoming an ever more common requirement in GIS projects and as GIS professionals we are often being taken out of our comfort zone when it comes to developing and deploying these online systems. Tools like Mango are removing most of the pain from web mapping by allowing applications to be built without writing any code or managing any servers, but there are still some important considerations to be made when moving our maps from the desktop to the web. Below are some of the most important.