Maps as we know it let us do a lot of cool things
The middle is here, where I work
Immediately I can see
Search
Recommendations
It even shows some photos of cool things in the area
Figure out how to get to the office now that the metro is closed for the summer
Helps me get directions home with the fastest route (traffic is never that good)
My wife likes to take virtual vacations
Great Pyramid of Giza
Can actually see what it looks like up close
A place she wandered to the other night
Geyser field on the Kamchatka Peninsula
Second largest concentration in the world
This is just downtown Alexandria
This isn’t new
We have Google Maps
OSM is open source
Mappers all over the world
Collecting data
Processing data
Stock photo level images from school websites like GIS University
Google Maps Street View
Get a few easter eggs
Millions of people have mapped on OSM
Thousands of different mappers every day
Points of interest, drawing streets
Build with and on top of OSM for humanitarian aid
Refugee camp on the border of south Sudan and Ethiopia
Where’d you get space?
Part of it’s a catchy title
Thousands of satellites in orbit
Some aren’t working
Many are still operational
Collecting images and data about our planet
Good example is MODIS Terra
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Every point on earth with it’s image sensor every 1-2 days
36 discrete spectral bands
Large-scale global dynamics
cloud coverage
Ocean processes
Changes in atmosphere
2016 (might be a little out of date)
Planetary Society
Current satellite missions operated by NASA and others
Daily doses on Instagram
International Space Station
not a satellite
Showing the earth at night
Daily Overview
Lake Natron in Tanzania
NASA Earth
Andaman Sea
Border of Burma and Thailand
Tons of research going on in many different areas that are using maps to help save the world
Can also use to view world events
Ee-dai
One of the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect Africa and the Southern Hemisphere
Can actually see footage of the storm in progress
Active fires all over the world
Last week
Cut out of wildfires in California last November
Known as Camp Fire
Helps teams manage resources for determining how to help
Lots of teams doing great work trying to help others
State of the Map conference
Teams working with OSM allows people to map out hospitals, shelters, and other points of interest in remote parts of the world
Actually saving lives
So what can Gatsby do for us?
Tooling with the front end of the stack is so many things
Insert Webpack in front of each line
Then insert the flavor of the week that solves a problem
Further, figuring out tooling with maps is even more challenging
What Gatsby has allowed us to do is focus on what’s important
Don’t need to spend time
Building out a front end
Worrying about compiling
Can immediately start working on building a map
At the end of the day, tooling isn’t productive if it gets in the way
We can very quickly spin up a mapping app with little fuss and immediately become productive
We have some of our own work behind the scenes, but I’ve put together Gatsby Starter Leaflet to help others get up to speed quickly
Will be building out some more features and examples as time goes on to help people out
Map areas of interest with shapes
Can be used for search
Referencing areas of interest
Kind of looks like a weird smiley face right?
Some of this isn’t immediately available with the starter… yet
