Plumbing Carleton's Campus Map: How it comes together. IIID. CAD. AutoCAD.
Creates and ... do both, but the map tile carver script we found expected PDFs.
Campus Map Attack! Matt Ryan Carleton College
carleton.edu/map
Plumbing Carleton’s Campus Map: How it comes together Getting all the data needed for our vision required integrating information from many sources. If you dare, look below to see how the sausage was made.
Campus Directory LDAP
ERP System Datatel Colleague
Contains information about: - Buildings - Rooms - People
TXT
IIID
- Built out of nightly exports from ERP system
People/Residences
CMS Reason
reason
- Imports information from ERP system into CMS - Transforms data into form needed for website
XML
HTML
Web Interface
APIs
Buildings/Floors/Rooms PNG
Vector Graphics Program
SVG
Custom Map Images
Illustrator
Contains campus map: - Building silhouettes - Relatove locations - Paved surfaces - Accessibility Information - Water - Labels
Ai
Map
Raster Graphics Program Photoshop/Javascript
PDF
Map
Transforms vector images into raster images Slices into Google Map-ready tiles
Ps
PNG JSON
Map Tiles
KML
Map Data
CAD
AutoCAD Creates and edits floor plans
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PDF
Floor Plans
Raster Graphics Program Imagemagick/PHP
Why are you exporting the map as both PDF and SVG? The SVG version of the map gets converted into KML so that Reason knows the outline of each building, and can highlight them (and possibly in the future make them clickable). The PDF version can be transformed by Photoshop into map tiles. It is possible that SVG could do both, but the map tile carver script we found expected PDFs. I can’t see the floor plans or people when I check the map! What gives? In an abundance of caution, we are not yet showing these things to off-campus visitors unless they are logged in. If you’d like to check these things out, contact
[email protected] and we can give you a temporary account.
PNG
Floor Plans
What is this “Reason” that seems to play such a central role here? Reason is an open source CMS built from the ground up for higher education. It was initially created by Carleton with the intention of making it available to the wider higher ed world, and has a small – but enthusiastic and growing – community of institutions using it. To find out more, contact
[email protected] or visit reason.carleton.edu.
