Ryan Cooper maptastik

An arrangement of items made through aRanger.

An arrangement of Kentucky counties made through aRanger.

Access to the wonderful Acetate tileset was lost when ESRI shut down GeoIQ. There are a few ways one might deal with this

Host your own version of Acetate using the stylesheets, data, and instructions in the Acetate repo on GitHub (link)
Try to recreate it using something like Mapbox Studio.
Run another tileset through a tile filter like TileLayer.Grayscale.js

This map demonstrates the third option. In this map, MapQuest's tiles are run through TileLayer.Grayscale.js to create a grayscale version of their tiles. A variety of tilesets can be found on Leaflet-providers preview.

Some Google Refine snippets and resources to help with cleaning PVA data

Google Refine recipes

Re-add the leading 0 to the 7-digit property numbers

Numeric facet on propertyand filter for 7-digit values only
Run a transform on the faceted property data. Concatenate a 0 to the front of the 7-digit values
- '0' + value
Remove the facet.

The basic syntax for downloading a service as a shapefile using shapefile-ags is:

shapefile-ags <map_service_layer_url>

The default output .zip is named shapefile.zip. There is an option to rename the output:

shapefile-ags  --file-name='some_name.zip'

#Preparing data from an ArcGIS REST Service for Use with Mapbox Services

##Situation##

We want to make a simple web map or static map of Graves Rd in Scott County using Mapbox services. We don't want to open GIS software because that takes forever. This workflow generally describes how we can access data from an ArcGIS REST service and process it for use with Mapbox.

##What we'll be using:##

Example Service: http://gis.gscplanning.com/arcgis/rest/services/Transportation/MapServer/0
Python 2.7.x

	// Initialize TabletopJS
	// This waits for the document to load
	// then it calls the function containing everything connected to our spreadsheet
	// In this case, this callback is called showInfo
	document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
	var gData
	var URL = "13Xd93PIiGvGh2JQ6uygnsUTTLAlJu7F7TE-doTy-5OY"
	Tabletop.init({
	key: URL,
	callback: showInfo,