Park Tiles
The US National Park Service's Basemap
Mamata Akella
NPMap
We design and build engaging web maps for the National Park Service and its partners using a variety of technologies and our own JavaScript library
Park Tiles
An online basemap that has the graphic identity of the NPS
Data
The data availability and quality varies at all levels of the Park Service
- Service Wide
- Individual Parks
- Harpers Ferry
- Base Data
Data
Technology
Data Processing/Management
- osm2pgsql & Imposm > PostGIS
- SQLite, Shapefile, GeoJSON
- QGIS
- TileMill (design)
- Dymo (labeling)
- InkScape (marker design)
- NSD Pro/Adobe PS (relief)
Future Work
Thank You
www.nps.gov/npmap
@npmap
@mamataakella // mamata_akella@partner.nps.gov
@nateirwin // nate_irwin@nps.gov