Web-GIS (Leaflet / Mapbox)
Getting a map off your laptop and onto a URL a commissioner can open on their phone — ward boundaries, complaint locations, project status — without emailing a shapefile nobody can open.
Needed across GIS / Urban-Data Analytics Lead
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Course outline
Learn from selected clips, concept by concept
Concept 1
Why a web map beats emailing a shapefile
Advantages of Web GIS | Why Web GIS is the Future of Mapping & Geospatial Analysis
Shahriar GIS School - Learn GIS from Anywhere · English · beginner
Why this clip: Explains why web GIS is easier for non-GIS users than desktop GIS and allows unified, real-time updates without software installation.
Concept 2
What a web map is made of
After: why-web-maps
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Concept 3
A working map in one HTML file
After: web-map-anatomy
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Concept 4
Putting your own data on the map
After: first-leaflet-map
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Concept 5
Colouring features by what the data says
After: adding-geojson
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Concept 6
Letting the reader click and find out more
After: adding-geojson
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Concept 7
When the file is too big for the browser
After: styling-by-attribute
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Concept 8
Choosing and customising the basemap
After: web-map-anatomy
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Concept 9
The shortcut: publishing straight from QGIS
After: styling-by-attribute
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Concept 10
Getting it onto a URL someone can open
After: first-leaflet-map, publishing-from-qgis
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What was rejected
6 candidates did not meet the course criteria.
- The video focuses on comparing Shapefile vs GeoJSON vector data formats instead of contrasting web maps with emailing desktop GIS files or static images.
- is a GIS-platform product demo
- This video focuses on using the Contextily Python library rather than explaining the core architecture and components of web maps.
- Is a platform product tour
- shows a finished map without writing the code
- Applies one uniform style to every feature
Where this skill is used
GIS / Urban-Data Analytics Lead
Spatial-data and analytics roles — building GIS systems, remote-sensing pipelines, urban dashboards, and data products for planning clients, authorities, and tech/geospatial firms. Strong demand where planning meets data. Specialisation tags: Urban, Regional, Environmental (cross-cutting).
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