TileMill

TileMill is an application (by MapBox) for making beautiful interactive maps. It's the "design studio" for journalists, web designers, researchers, or cartographers.

See also Geovisualisierung.

Documentation:

• Homepage: http://mapbox.com/tilemill/
• TileMill Quick Tutorial: [1]
• TileMill and Processing

Features:

• Import Formats: Shapefile, PostGIS.
• Export Formats: PNG, SVG, MBTiles, Mapnik XML, MapBox Online.

Notes on publishing interactive maps:

• Given a TileMill project (styling configuration) you can
  • directly publish to MapBox Online.
  • generate MBTiles which then are rendered with other tools (see MBTiles).
  • export Mapnik XML.
• An ArcGIS project (MXD) can be converted to a TileMill project, including all symbols, renderers, and labels, using the Arc2Earch Sync Extension/Plugin [2].

Notes on CartoCSS:

• Always specify zoom levels as either >= or < . Don't use = or =< or >
• Two space indents. No tabs.
• space after : but no before
• If there is a &minscale_zoom18;, ignore it. These really mess up any attempts to run the style at z19 Dashes, not underscores, in layer names
• Avoid restating defaults, e.g. don't add point-allow-overlap = false