Launch of Mapping Consumers!

My project, Mapping Consumers in the Black South African Press, is now live at this address! Mapping Consumers is built with data I collected from two South African newspapers, Bantu World and Umlindi we Nyanga in the 1930s. The 1930s were an important period in the...

Project update: refining my map

In the past month, after several weeks of despairing tinkering, I finally got the features in my GeoJSON files to appear as points on my map. I now feel much more comfortable playing around with Javascript to see what my map can do. Currently my map looks like this:...

Project update: learning to tinker

A month into building my Mapping Consumers project, and this is what my page looks like: I’m building my web map using Bootleaf, trying to tinker with the original code to make it fit my purposes and display my map. Until last week, I hadn’t been having...