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30 Days of Maps Day 17 - Collaborative Map

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James Dales
James Dales
Co-founder of Tekantis

Sunday's challenge is day 17 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is Collaborative Map - Collaborate with others on a single map. For today’s challenge, team up! Whether you work with one person or several, the idea is to combine your efforts on a single map.

Sadly there hasn't been time to work on a map with someone else this week - there's just too much going on! However, I thought I would add a twist to the challenge instead, and show how lots of different providers can play together in Icon Map Pro.

This map has multiple providers contributing to the final map:

  • Background maps from Ordnance Survey
  • Hill shading overlaid from MapTiler
  • Local Authority Choropleth map using Mapbox hosted vector tiles
  • Lower Super Output Area boundary overlays via an ArcGIS feature layer hosted by the Office for National Statistics
  • Traffic provided by Azure Maps
  • Weather provided OpenWeatherMap

Clearly this isn't what you would build for a production map, but it's a good example of the different integrations that Icon Map Pro offers out of the box. Another one I couldn't quite squeeze in was Google Maps!

Collaborative Map

I can't provide the download link for today's challenge as it is dependant on too many external API keys that can't be shared.