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Initiate mercator map to handle projection Using the MercatorMap class I could load the basemap in Processing as follows (this is where you need the extent coordinates, which you noted when you exported the basemap from TileMill):

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Download and save it as MercatorMap.pde in the Processing sketch folder (not the data folder). He offers a nifty MercatorMap class for download, which one can use for handling the projection from geographic coordinates to screen coordinates. You can move them there manually or use the Sketch > Add File…dialog in Processing.įor using the basemap in Processing, you best refer to the Simple static map example by Till Nagel. Both files have to be stored in the data folder of the Processing sketch.

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Let’s summarise: By now I had my basemap as well as my postal code data ready. Later I dropped defining an extent by mouse but entered the extent coordinates numerically into TileMill instead.įinally: This is what my basemap of Switzerland looked like: Basemap for Switzerland, by TileMill Side-note: While figuring out the design of the basemap I exported different versions several times, because I forgot to take note of the extent coordinates. You need these later on in order to get the spatial reference in Processing right: Processing has to project geographically referenced data (basemap and postal codes) consistently into the screen spatial reference system. Note: When you do the export, you have to pay attention to note down the extent coordinates (north, east, south and west boundary coordinates). I exported the basemap as a PNG file for use in Processing. The basemap contains country outlines and major lakes. I edited an existing stylesheet to get a very reduced basemap with bright colours. So I fired up my Ubuntu desktop computer and had TileMill installed.

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TileMill is available for Mac OS and Ubuntu. In order to prepare one I decided to use TileMill by MapBox (see this post). Next I felt I needed a nice looking base map to plot the postal code data on, rather than just an empty canvas. The Readme accompanying the data says a link to the Geonames website is okay for this purpose. The data is CC-BY-3.0-licensed, which means we can use it to our ends (even commercial ones) provided we attribute it to Geonames. Luckily, I could avoid this extra step, because after a brief search it turned out that Geonames does offer datasets of geocoded postal codes on a per-country basis for download:  (scroll down for a readme entry page is here with reference to postal codes in first paragraph). However, if the postal codes were not geocoded, one could resort to using a (for example, Google’s) geocoding service to hopefully obtain coordinates for the postal codes). Ideally this dataset would contain the place names along with the postal codes (for error/quality checking) and would be geocoded (that is, contain geographic coordinates). The visualization is called the ZIPScribbleMap: “ZIP” for postal codes, “Scribble” for rather obvious reasons (as in “it looks like what I doodle while on the phone!”):įirst of all I needed a dataset of Swiss postal codes. I’ll do that in some detail, maybe this is helpful to somebody.

#Switzerland extra bold font how to

This is the first installment of a two-parts post covering this project, in which I will describe how to arrive at an intermediate result. Having seen a visualization by Robert Kosara of EagerEyes a loooong time ago, I wanted to try to reproduce it for Switzerland using Processing.