Presently we are building out our family of mapping environments and are very excited to be adding the ESRI JavaScript API as this article goes to press. A web map should be undertaking a purposeful activity and we should be able to identify how good the map is at completing that task: conversions. Well, maps should also be tasked with goals, whether that be a click on a feature, a routing activity requested or a geocoding activity. Conversion in a web-sense means that a particular goal has been met by a website. That idea gets to the nub of the issue presently – Maps should convert. What we really mean here is that we provide the tools to let a map developer experiment with, for example, different iconographies then determine if the red icon drives more conversions / activities than the blue icon. Maptiks is designed to help map developers build better maps by applying analytics. Its really just a couple of lines in your index.html for the vast majority of use cases. When we say Maptiks is like Google Analytics for your web map, we mean we want you to be able to easily implement a robust, geographic analytics platform directly into your map with minimal effort. At Sparkgeo we felt that without an ability to actually measure a map’s performance, developers were being needlessly restricted. Well, now we have a plethora of tools for building amazing web maps.
It’s funny, I get the sense that until recently many developers have been just happy to get their map actually working the thought of adding analytics was a distant concern. Our central vision is to bring web style analytics to online maps. The tag line for Maptiks is a very catchy “It’s like Google Analytics for your web map!”. Will and his team are the guys behind Maptiks – an google analytics for our web maps and here’s what he had to say about Maptiks, the future of web map analytics and on becoming a geo-entrepreneur. Sometime earlier, I had the opportunity to have an really interesting (and insightful) conversation with Will Cadell, the CEO of Sparkgeo. One of the biggest perks of being a geogeek is getting to share your enthusiasm and crazy love for everything geo with like-minded people. Please follow Tensing on LinkedIn to see any new post in your timeline.The spatial community is full of amazing people. In the coming weeks I’ll show some ‘how to’s’ and the result with the different libraries. If you need any advice on this, please feel free to contact me. Many solutions are documented online and some others have to be created manually. If your selected library is missing that one feature more often than not there’s a workaround. How to meet all of your requirements with (only) one library?Īs said, no single one library is capable of having all features. Much like a foundation of a house, it’s difficult to remove a mapping library from your application once you have started. Create a list prioritizing the most important features, interview users, use user stories and use every possible measure to ensure you pick the library that best fits your needs. It’s often hard to find one library that combines all of your wanted features. When you start creating a web map you have to first choose which of the available libraries fits best for your purpose. In practice: what is the best library for you? A library that provides a familiar user experience with both the map and included widgets.
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