In my attempt to map orangutan and forest cover on Borneo over the past 50 years, I’ve been reading tons of stuff online about mapping technologies. There are some good tutorials on specific mapping programs like D3 + TopoJSON and TileMill, but before I get attached to a platform, I wanted to know all my options for mapping programs. To my delight I found a great overview of mapping tools in the Mack Hardy‘s following talk: My notes from the talk Simple maps Google Fusion Tables, MapBox, cartograms create non-interactive maps through layers of information. Google Fusion Table is an…
