Isolario Test Map

Post date: Nov 10, 2015 11:49:38 AM

Interact with the map on Georges' users.wpi page

As mentioned in our previous blog posts, a large portion of our project focuses on creating an interactive map that can show data and information on the islands of the Venetian Lagoon. Nick and I have been working hard to produce a customized interactive map that is capable of reading in and displaying information from the Venice Project Center's online databases. This application will link each island's information to Venipedia and the Venetian Historical Map Explorer, and users will eventually be able to filter information by island and search through the map for specific information. Our current implementation of this application is shown in the picture below, and can be found here.

Instead of using Google Fusion Tables, we've settled on using the leaflet.js JavaScript mapping library to create our application. This library is much more customizable, has many useful examples, and allows for us to display more information than we would have been able to support with Fusion tables. The past bells and canals projects have also used this library to create interactive maps, and we've learned lots of helpful information by going through their source code.