Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by Killswitch » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 9:20 PM UTC

Diffable, more customizable maps
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Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

#2

Post by scott_karana » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 9:52 PM UTC

The guys and gals at Github constantly add really cool stuff. Good on them for working so hard.

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by michaelmior » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 10:03 PM UTC

scott_karana wrote: post #2

The guys and gals at Github constantly add really cool stuff. Good on them for working so hard.

Agreed! I'm really curious to know what users are motivating them to put so much effort into this area though.

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by tgb » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 10:13 PM UTC

Very impressive! I hope this is bringing us closer to the possible of New York Times-style maps for all of our datasets.

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by Ycros » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 10:15 PM UTC

I'd love to see some improvements done around their plain old text based diffs, and merging.

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by morganherlocker » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 10:16 PM UTC

The style spec is a feature I have been waiting on for a long time. Does anyone know if there is a leaflet plugin out there for rendering styles based on the spec when adding a geojson layer?

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by sync » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 10:36 PM UTC

Ycros wrote: post #5

I'd love to see some improvements done around their plain old text based diffs, and merging.

Yeah, syntax highlighting would be awesome to start...

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by joaomsa » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 10:39 PM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #3

scott_karana wrote: post #2

The guys and gals at Github constantly add really cool stuff. Good on them for working so hard.

Agreed! I'm really curious to know what users are motivating them to put so much effort into this area though.

I think it's the inverse, built features to encourage more users in this area.

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by nextstep » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 2:00 AM UTC

This is cool...

I wonder if GitHub has analytics about how many of their users use these features? Because I have a short list of features I would love from GitHub (things like a UI for rebasing merges of Pull Requests, or the ability to do merge --squash) and I can't be the only one who's wanted these things. My point is, why doesn't GitHub implement more git-related features instead of cool visualization features?

Re: Diffable, more customizable maps

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Post by mapmeld » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 2:35 AM UTC

This is a big advance for mapping and open data on GitHub!

Last year I was working with Boston and Cambridge to open their mapping data, and in addition to GitHub I was encouraging them to use GeoGit (geogit.org). Some of our projects (bike lanes added each year, buildings changed between 2010 and 2013 datasets & missing on OpenStreetMap, permits added each day) could now be shown in GitHub.

I don't think this is the end of GeoGit though... feature-by-feature changes and filtering available in GeoGit are important for 3rd-party databases to keep in sync with an authoritative dataset.