Overcome by Events: Chicago Tribune shows how to map

Clint Waggoner¹ (an old boss) once told me, "If you wait just a little bit longer, things tend to resolve themselves." After saying WMS is OBE and baiting people with the #WMSisdead hashtag on Twitter, I felt that I should prove my point by using the tools I mentioned and documenting the process to create custom tiles and display them on the web. 


Project deadlines, a long weekend at the beach, telecons, and a cruise to Cozumel :) resulted in putting it off. As usual Clint was right.


The Chicago Tribune published a five part series on how to make custom maps using PostGIS, TileMill, Mapnik and display it on Google maps. Their code is also available on github.



¹I have undying respect for Clint because he used to dynamically allocate memory by wiring magnetic-core memory as his program was running. He did this on a PDP11. In a sub. Next to a nuclear reactor.