Customizing Maps and Geo Data in Managing News

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Customizing Maps and Geo Data in Managing News

Using custom map tiles and open geo data to build a hyper local news tracker

Feb 19, 2010 by Will White

Managing News ships with its maps and geotagging features preconfigured for tracking global news on a world map. But user interface improvements in Managing News Beta 7 make it easy to use an alternate map layer and import custom location data so you can track news in a specific geographic region.

Custom Map in Managing News

This screencast shows how I was able to tailor my maps to focus on the city of Washington, DC and plot the stories published on various neighborhood blogs. I used open geographic data from the DC government and the DC Nightvision tileset from MapBox.

Awesome tutorial. Thank you!

Feb 19, 2010 by Alexander Polyakov

Awesome tutorial. Thank you! Now it just one simple thing left — find a map for St. Petersburg, Russia.

Will White

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Will built his first Drupal website in 2005. Since then he has built many more and has become the lead developer for the SMS Framework in Drupal, as well as an experienced GIS developer.

Will is an innovator who is always trying to open up new possibilities with emerging technologies, and those innovations have made an impact in the Drupal community. The SMS framework, which began as a Google Summer of Code project in 2006, has grown into a powerful system that allows users to send and receive text messages from their Drupal sites and sync with third party tools.

His contributions to our open source mapping projects are pushing the limits of what’s possible with custom mapping, creating data rich, functional, and beautiful maps. He also puts his background in film to work in making excellent Drupal training videos for the open source community.

Will received bachelor’s degrees in Communications and Information Technology and Film from American University in Washington, D.C.

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