whyday hacks - Sketch
- Sketch is no longer available or developed. It was built on polymaps, which is itself not developed anymore. I don't know of any similar freehand-style map editing interfaces.
Sketch lets you draw on maps and have fun doing it. It’s based on Polymaps, and has a bunch of superpowers like touch compatibility, streaming changes, different inks, text mode, and lots else that’s in the code but not in this thrown-together demo on top of World Glass.
This is something of a MapBox leak: sketch is a component we’re using in a big project that goes way farther. This is the tip of the iceberg - the fully-open-source, in the public tip.
Sketch speaks GeoJSON fluently and exclusively, so you can hook up your drawings to your favorite serious map-authoring kit, like TileMill. It draws with SVG, and is super simple to add to Polymaps, just map.add(sketch())
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Oh, and since this is kind of crazy stuff, it doesn’t work with IE. Sorry!