first published week of: 02/04/2013
Last Thursday the United Nations opened an inquiry into the “civilian impact of the use of drones and other forms of targeted killing.” Data - data about casualties, targets, frequency, and other topics - will play an important role in this investigation, led by UN special rapporteur for human rights and counterterrorism. …
In this post, I’ll walk through how to use MapBox.js to pull dynamic data from a Google Fusion table onto a MapBox map. Following these steps will let you turn tabular data into an interactive map like this:
Our new MapBox.js library makes it easy to visualize complex and dynamic datasets in real-time. Over the past few months, we’ve been refining the mapbox.markers
features of MapBox.js, which allow you to add markers to your MapBox maps using client-side JavaScript, rather than rendering them as separate map layers. continued…