1.
Yellowstone Cartography
May 2016 issue of National Geographic Magazine
Magazine page maps: Lauren Tierney, NGP
Elk Migration supplement: Martin Gamache, Art of the Mappable
Interactive maps: Brian Jacobs, NGP
NACIS 2016

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Magazine Maps
Magazine page maps:
Lauren Tierney

3.
Supplement
Elk Migration supplement:
Martin Gamache

4.
Interactive maps:
Brian Jacobs

5.
www.na%onalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/05/yellowstone-na%onal-parks-elk-migra%on-map/

6.
HOW TO LEVERAGE IN-
HOUSE CARTOGRAPHY
FOR WEB MAPS?

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— WEB —
D3 - GeoJSON, SVG/Canvas
LEAFLET - Tiles, Vectors
Pre-rendered map data, in raster & SVG
HTML/CSS/Javascript
MAPBOX - Vector Tiles of OSM & own data
CARTO(DB) - Similar, better data processing
GOOGLE MAPS - Limited customization, can overlay data
DESKTOP - COMMAND LINE - SERVER SIDE SOFTWARE
arcgis, qgis, gdal, ogr2ogr, mapnik
mapublisher, geographic imager, node, python…

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hRp://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3711652

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hRps://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/6242308

10.
LOCATOR MAP
Data: Generalized North America boundaries,
borders, elk range data; conic projec%on
Format: Shapefile to GeoJSON to TopoJSON.
Tech: Javascript / D3 / Canvas

11.
BASE MAP
Data: Snowfall, NDVI, Na%onal
Hydrography Dataset, Admin
boundaries, Gov't parks boundaries;
Yellowstone Equal Area Projec%on
Format: GeoTIFF to re%na %lesets
(jpeg)

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ANIMATION MIGRATION
Data: Processed GPS tracks from hundreds of tagged
elk
Format: Shapefile ➡ GeoJSON ➡ Generalized
temporal JSON of GeoJSON
Tech: Canvas, Leaflet, D3 (browser: graph), proj4js, D3
(Node), Lodash (Node), Bluebird, MomentJS, Gulp

13.
MULTISCALE PROJECTION AGNOSTIC RASTER
PROCESSING
Data: GeoTIFF files represen%ng the same
geographic area at different scales
Format: Structured folders of geo%ff to WMS %le
sets + metadata for proj4leaflet to consume
Tech: Bluebird, Node GDAL, ImageMagick,
GDAL2Tiles (modified), proj4leaflet, proj4js,

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Additional Contributors
Primary Scientific Advisers: Arthur Middleton, Matthew
Kaufmann
Design: William Marr, Sandi Owatverot-Nuzzo
Interactive Design: Julia Smith, Vitomir Zarkovic
Graphics: Lawson Parker, Daisy Chung
Research: Shelley Sperry, Brad Scriber
GIS: Theodore Sickley, Matthew Hayes, Jerod Merkle
Cartography: Lauren James, Dianne Hunt
Production assistance: Andrew Umentum, Emily Eng
Map Edit: Gus Platis
Text: Jeremy Berlin