Week 10 Mapbox Basemap

Foundations

Let's take it slllooooowww. Breathe!

Mapbox

First, we need to create our very own Mapbox map. Mapbox is a semi-open source tool we can use to make web maps. Its data is based on OpenStreetMap, and we get a lot of free views so it's a useful tool to begin your first web map.

1. Set up Mapbox

So, let's head over to . In the top-right corner select Sign Up.
Enter the credentials you wish to use, and set up your account.

2. Create a Mapbox Style

Now that you're successfully in Mapbox, let's create a custom map style!

Open the Mapbox Studio styles page, where all your map styles will be listed.
Click the drop down next to the New Style button.
Select Classic template.
Select the Monochrome style.
Choose a base variation.These colors can be adjusted later.
Click Customize Monochrome.

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Once you're in, have a play around with different styles and have some fun - change some fonts, and see if you can establish a different color scheme based on our lectures last week.

If you'd like to learn more (or be more intentional), check out https://docs.mapbox.com/studio-manual/reference/styles/

3. Publish your Style

Once you're done with your style, we need to make sure it's publically visible before we put it in our web map!

The Publish button in the upper right of the style editor allows you to save your style so you can use it. When you click Publish the following information appears:

We're going to publish to web, so at the bottom you'll need to save these two pieces of code somewhere safe (but don't worry, you can always get them back!):
- Style URL - this is the unique identifier of your map - Mapbox Token - this is a secret code which links to your Mapbox Account.

Create Your Web Map

So now we are going to create a very basic framework to host your webmap using Github. We will use Code Pen while we get used to coding in html/css/js - and then export the as a .zip file, and upload it to Github.

1. Set up Code Pen

The first thing you need to do is set up a Code Pen account - if you haven't already.

Go to https://codepen.io/ and choose "Sign Up". You may sign up with either your email or your github account.

On the top right, under the "Create" submenu, select Pen, then, Pen.

Your page should look like this:

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As you may remember from lecture, code pen has three windows - one for HTML, one for CSS and one for .js. We will be putting different pieces of code into different windows! And remember, nothing is broken for ever! When in doubt, Ctrl + Z

Now, let's start coding!

2. Set up your HTML

First, we need to create a HTML container for your web map to be held in. We're going to use the <div> tag to create a division to hold your map.

In the HTML box, either type or copy and paste the below code:

<div id="map">
</div> 

This code bascially means "this is a division, with the id of "map". Nothing will change, because it's just an invisible structure! We haven't put anything into it yet!

3. Set Up Your CSS

Next, we need to style your map <div> using CSS. You can choose how big or small you want your map to be in future, but to make it easier for now, we are going to make the map full page, with no margins and to be 100% the width of the web browser.

Your css component, thus has two components: a style for the <body> (body) and a style for the <div id=map> (#map)

body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
#map {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 100%; }

Again, you'll see nothing because we haven't put anything in your <div id=map> section.

4. Set up Your .js

Now we can set up your map using Javascript! To do this, we need to set up two elements: 1. Your mapbox access token so the web page knows which account to access. 2. The const map where we set up the map's interactive elements (zoom, pan). (Next week, we will add variables and events!)

This is the code that we need to add:

    mapboxgl.accessToken = 'Your token goes here';

    const map = new mapboxgl.Map({
        container: 'map', // this is the container ID that we set in the HTML
        center: [-74.5, 40], // starting position [lng, lat]. Note that lat must be set between -90 and 90. You can choose what you'd like.
        zoom: 9 // starting zoom, again you can choose the level you'd like.
    });

Now, here is an experiment for you. See if you can see where you put your Mapbox Access Token and try to remember where you might access it, (1) and if you are stuck, check out the arrow.

your mapbox access token can be found when you click Share on your mapbox map.

5. Bring in your own custom Mapbox Map

So, this is a fine map, but it's not yours. Let's add a little bit of code to bring in your own map. We are going to add a parameter called style which allows us to set which kind of map we'd like.

Copy and paste the code below into your map (make sure you include the comma at the very end!)

style: 'mapbox://styles/your-mapbox-username/your-custom-style-url', // Your Style URL goes here

Yes, yes - it's broken, but that's because we haven't made it work yet! Don't worry as long as your js looks something like this:

    mapboxgl.accessToken = 'pk.eyJ1IjoiY3dpbG1vdHQiLCJhIjoiY2s2bWRjb2tiMG1xMjNqcDZkbGNjcjVraiJ9.2nNOYL23A1cfZSE4hdC9ew';
    const map = new mapboxgl.Map({
        container: 'map', // container ID
        style: 'mapbox://styles/your-mapbox-username/your-custom-style-url', //Your Style URL goes here
        center: [-74.5, 40], // starting position [lng, lat]. Note that lat must be set between -90 and 90
        zoom: 9 // starting zoom
    });

Now, return to Mapbox and click share! Above your Access Token, you'll see a Style URL - replace the text in style: 'mapbox://styles/your-mapbox-username/your-custom-style-url' with your own style url, making sure to keep the apostrophes/syntax on each side.

Now your code should look something like this, and you should be able to see your map:

    mapboxgl.accessToken = 'pk.eyJ1IjoiY3dpbG1vdHQiLCJhIjoiY2s2bWRjb2tiMG1xMjNqcDZkbGNjcjVraiJ9.2nNOYL23A1cfZSE4hdC9ew';
    const map = new mapboxgl.Map({
        container: 'map', // container ID
        style: 'mapbox://styles/cwilmott/cmg5px11u00ef01sm3fr65ro0', // your Style URL goes here
        center: [-74.5, 40], // starting position [lng, lat]. Note that lat must be set between -90 and 90
        zoom: 9 // starting zoom
    });

If it hasn't worked - check your code carefully - the grammar/syntax (, ; ' :) is very important, and easy to get lost in copy/paste. In the worst case, just paste the above code, and change the Access Token and Style URL.

Transfer to Github

If you've managed to get your map up and running, congrats! Now, let's get it out of Code Pen and into Github so we can host it on our own website.

1. Export

At the bottom-right of your Code Pen is a button Export. 1. Click Export 2. Select Export .zip

This will export a zip file to your downloads folder. You need to go to the dist file, which has three files: - index.html - style.css - script.js

2. Upload Files

Now, we need to add these files to your Github. 1. Login to Github 2. Go to your repository which you made last week. 3. Then select Add File and Upload Files 4. Drag these three files into the window 5. Select Commit Changes

3. Check its worked!

Now, we're going to see if our website has worked - it might take over 10 minutes for your files to commit (Github is a little slow!) so don't panic right away! 1. Go back to Settings 2. Select Pages from the menu on the left. 3. At the top of the page, there will be a section where you can see the link to your website. Click on it and see if your map loads!

(and if not, no worries! submit the link to repository for the lab, and trouble shoot in office hours :-) )

Experimental

Okay, fast rabbits! A few things to keep in mind: 1. The commas, apostrophes - what is called syntax - is important. If your code doesn't work, chances are it's a syntax problem. 2. We are setting up our website the traditional way, using files + folders (not codepen) so you get used to the structure of a website. Strong recommend to install Visual Studio Code on your laptop.

Mapbox

First, we're gonna make a custom map by creating our own stylesheet. Mapbox does most of the work for us.

1. Set up Mapbox

So, let's head over to https://www.mapbox.com/ . In the top-right corner select Sign Up.
Enter the credentials you wish to use, and set up your account.

2. Create a Mapbox Style

Now that you're successfully in Mapbox, let's create a custom map style!

Open the Mapbox Studio styles page, where all your map styles will be listed. 1. Click the drop down next to the New Style button. 2. Select Classic template. 3. Select the Monochrome style. 4. Choose a base variation.These colors can be adjusted later. 5. Click Customize Monochrome.

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Once you're in, have a play around - but i'd try to see if you can figure out how to add a new font, play with symbols, add new layers. Check out https://docs.mapbox.com/studio-manual/reference/styles/

3. Publish your Style

Once you're done with your style, we need to make sure it's publically visible before we put it in our web map!

The Publish button in the upper right of the style editor allows you to save your style so you can use it. When you click Publish the following information appears:

We're going to publish to web, so at the bottom you'll need to save these two pieces of code somewhere safe (but don't worry, you can always get them back!):
- Style URL - this is the unique identifier of your map - Mapbox Token - this is a secret code which links to your Mapbox Account.

Create Your Web Map

We're going to use Visual Studio Code to set up your web map. If you're familiar with Git or Github, you can push directly to your respository. If not, let's stick with copy + paste for now.

1. Set up your folder

On your desktop, or somewhere you can find, create a new folder called "183webmap"

2. Set up Visual Studio Code

On your desktop, open Visual Studio Code. NB: It is different to Visual Studio - the logo looks like this: logo

Select Open
Choose your 183webmap folder
Select Open or similar.

3. Create + Code your HTML file

Now, we need to create files in this folder which we can use to build our web map. 1. Select New File 2. Call it index.html 3. Then select Create.

Once we have the file, let's code in the basic structure of our html file. You'll recall HTML files have a basic structure. Copy and paste this into your `index.html file.

<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- Set your doctype, so the browser knows what coding language this is -->
<html lang="en"> <!-- tell the browser where the code is and what speaking language this is -->
  <head>
<!-- Your document set up goes here -->
  </head> 
  <body>
<!-- your page structure goes here -->
  </body>  
</html>

Now, let's set up some info the head, so the browser knows what to expect. In the <head> section we need to add two tags, which tells the browser which language to expect, and what the title of your web page is:

    <meta charset="UTF-8"> <!-- what character set are you using? -->
    <title>183 Web Map</title> <!-- Call your map whatever title you want -->

Your code should now look something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- Set your doctype, so the browser knows what coding language this is -->
<html lang="en"> <!-- tell the browser where the code is and what speaking language this is -->
  <head> <!-- Your document set up goes here -->
    <meta charset="UTF-8"> <!-- what character set are you using? -->
    <title>183 Web Map</title> <!-- Call your map whatever title you want -->
  </head> 
  <body>
  <!-- your page structure goes here -->
  </body>
</html>

Now, we need to add a division to hold our map - which will be invisible until we do our .js, but is an important placeholder. We will place the following code in our <body> section, which bascially creates a division with the id of "map", so our js can find it later.

    <div id="map"></div>

Your HTML code should look something like this:

html
<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- Set your doctype, so the browser knows what coding language this is -->
<html lang="en"> <!-- tell the browser where the code is and what speaking language this is -->
  <head> <!-- Your document set up goes here -->
    <meta charset="UTF-8"> <!-- what character set are you using? -->
    <title>183 Web Map</title> <!-- Call your map whatever title you want -->
  </head> 
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>
  </body>  
</html>

DO NOT CLOSE YOUR index.html FILE.

4. Create your CSS file + Link to your HTML

Let's quickly now create a CSS stylesheet for your map, so we can style it easily.

1. Go to **File > New File ***
2. Call it **style.css**

Now, let's style some elements. We want our map to be full size, so we need to add two components: 1. a body style element, which styles the overall <body> section 2. a #map style element, which styles elements which have the id=map tag.

Here is the code:

body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
#map {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 100%;
}

See if you can have a quick look and figure out what each of the paramenters (like position: absolute;) do.

Finally - we need to link your style.css sheet to your index.html file, as well as the stylesheet from Mapbox to help out with the map styling. In the <head> section, copy and paste the two links below.

<link rel='stylesheet' href='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v3.15.0/mapbox-gl.css'>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./style.css">

The first link is an absolute link to the Mapbox CSS, the second is a relative link to your own stylesheet - which means it will look for the style.css file in the same folder that it is in. For more info see https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_filepaths.asp (this is an absolute link!).

Your code should look something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- Set your doctype, so the browser knows what coding language this is -->
<html lang="en"> <!-- tell the browser where the code is and what speaking language this is -->
  <head> <!-- Your document set up goes here -->
    <meta charset="UTF-8"> <!-- what character set are you using? -->
    <title>183 Web Map</title> <!-- Call your map whatever title you want -->
    <link rel='stylesheet' href='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v3.15.0/mapbox-gl.css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./style.css">
  </head> 
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>
  </body>  
</html>

And don't forget to hit "Save"

5. Create and set up your .js file

Finally, we are ready to create our Javascript file, which is when we will finally be able to test our map and make sure it works. As above, create a new file and name it script.js.

Before we put any scripting into it, let's make sure our HTML file knows where to look to find it the different scripts it will need. Again, we need to add two Javascript files: 1. One relative link to our own script.js file 2. One absolute link to the Mapbox GL JS script file.

This will go in the <body> section of the index.html file.

Here is the code which will link to the script:

<script src='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v3.15.0/mapbox-gl.js'></script>
<script src="./script.js"></script>

Your code should look something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- Set your doctype, so the browser knows what coding language this is -->
<html lang="en"> <!-- tell the browser where the code is and what speaking language this is -->
  <head> <!-- Your document set up goes here -->
    <meta charset="UTF-8"> <!-- what character set are you using? -->
    <title>183 Web Map</title> <!-- Call your map whatever title you want -->
    <link rel='stylesheet' href='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v3.15.0/mapbox-gl.css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./style.css">
  </head> 
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>
    <script src='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v3.15.0/mapbox-gl.js'></script>
    <script src="./script.js"></script>
  </body>  
</html>

Now we are ready to make the Javascript!

6. Write your map object

First, we need to write our map object in our script.js file - we are going to use a library called Mapbox GL JS which makes it easy, and has lots of useful tools like built-in popups, and location trackers.

All Mapbox maps require access to your mapbox account. It gets access through an access token, with the code

mapboxgl.accessToken = '\\your access token goes here';

mapboxgl.accessToken = 'pk.eyJ1IjoiY3dpbG1vdHQiLCJhIjoiY2s2bWRjb2tiMG1xMjNqcDZkbGNjcjVraiJ9.2nNOYL23A1cfZSE4hdC9ew';
    const map = new mapboxgl.Map({
        container: 'map', // container ID
      style: 'mapbox://styles/cwilmott/cmg5px11u00ef01sm3fr65ro0',
        center: [-74.5, 40], // starting position [lng, lat]. Note that lat must be set between -90 and 90
        zoom: 9 // starting zoom
    });

Week 10 Mapbox Basemap

Foundations

Mapbox

1. Set up Mapbox

2. Create a Mapbox Style

3. Publish your Style

Create Your Web Map

1. Set up Code Pen

2. Set up your HTML

3. Set Up Your CSS

4. Set up Your .js

5. Bring in your own custom Mapbox Map

Transfer to Github

1. Export

2. Upload Files

3. Check its worked!

Experimental

Mapbox

1. Set up Mapbox

2. Create a Mapbox Style

3. Publish your Style

Create Your Web Map

1. Set up your folder

2. Set up Visual Studio Code

3. Create + Code your HTML file

4. Create your CSS file + Link to your HTML

5. Create and set up your .js file

6. Write your map object

7. Add a custom map style

Transfer to Github

1. Upload Files

2. Check its worked!