After creating an analysis of food deserts within the municipal boundaries of Providence, I created web tiles that showed the census tracts for Providence that I had determined were food deserts as well as another tileset for grocery stores in the area. I used the site mapbox.com to store tiles I created using Tilemill. This proved to be especially challenging as mapbox has undergone some updates recently and the instructions I had were out of date. However, I perservered and was able to get my data up and available. I did have to find a new set of code examples for my map page, though, before I could serve my data online. I'm quite excited at what these tools offer, although it would be good if APIs were less subject to radical change.
The image below is a simple screenshot showing my tiles appearing in a web browser.
Screenshot of Providence food deserts
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