CartoDB Layer Tutorial

CartoDB is pretty awesome for building interactive apps that need spatial data.  Most of these are web apps, but you can use CartoDB on mobile too.

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Frankly, there aren't enough mobile apps using WhirlyGlobe-Maply and CartoDB.  So I wrote a tutorial.

CartoDB Tutorial

We've got a brand new set of tutorials up on the brand new WhirlyGlobe-Maply web site.  They'll run you through setup all the way to vector selection and beyond.

The CartoDB Tutorial is one of the cool ones.  We use a MaplyQuadPagingLayer to fetch New York PLUTO data for Manhattan.

The paging layer does the dirty work of figuring out which tiles are visible.  We add a little code to fetch the data in a given tile and then display it.  The toolkit does the rest.

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It wasn't all that hard to put this together.  If you know CartoDB, you won't have much trouble using WG-Maply.  If you know WG-Maply, adding the CartoDB piece is a cinch.

I'd like to see more CartoDB based mobile apps out there.  Don't make me write them all myself.