Let’s Make a Map!

Basemaps

Let’s start by building a good-looking base map to use in our new web-map. Now we could use any number of free basemap tile services that are available from Google, MapQuest, Stamen, ESRI...

What exactly is a “web-map”?

There are a ton of different ways of putting mapping data on the web. These range from simple images to PDF’s that the user has to download, to dynamic and complex web mapping applications.