Web Site & Documentation

I'm pleased to announce the WhirlyGlobe-Maply project's brand new web site.  It's been a long time in coming, but it's finally here.  And it's great!

That thing where you screen capture your web site

It's quite pretty.  We look like a real open source project now.  Other than cementing our 2014 aesthetic, there are a few practical improvements.

Documentation

We've got Tutorials!  And reference docs!  But we had those already.  Tutorials!

And then do a presentation of your web site

There are, as of writing, 17 short tutorials meant to be worked from start to finish.  Mostly.  There's some skipping around there in how you set up the project.  You'll see.

We cover everything from setting up your project to displaying tiled image maps to spheres and selection.  By the end of it, you'll have a pretty advanced, but weird looking, app.

Points to the first person to publish the tutorial as an app.  Negative points.

Partner Apps

Do you have an app that uses WhirlyGlobe-Maply?  Then you should get on the Apps page.  All you need is.

• An app icon.
• A link to the app store or your own page.
• A short description.

This is totally not that thing

Right now TrailBehind's apps are at the top because this was their idea.  I'll sort it in the future, perhaps by release date or alphabetical.

Acknowledgements

This was a group effort.  Thanks go to everyone who worked on it.

• Kim Rullo for the graphics
• Eric Theise for the Jekyll and HTML husbandry
• Michael Dougherty for the first cut at the documentation

What's up next is more tutorials.  I've got about a dozen more planned.  But first I want to see how people use the existing ones.  So get on out there and tutorialize!