Pale Dawn

The “Pale Dawn” tileset has a calm, restrained style designed to work well with lots of data points. It’s less about the geographical information as such, and more about providing a suitable background to foreground information.

This map is constructed using a single image layer of CloudMade tiles. The tiles are in spherical mercator coordinates, and the map has standard interaction controls, so this basic example is a useful starting point for customization. Register a developer account with CloudMade for your own API key.

Source Code

var po = org.polymaps;

var map = po.map()
    .container(document.getElementById("map").appendChild(po.svg("svg")))
    .add(po.interact())
    .add(po.hash());

map.add(po.image()
    .url(po.url("http://{S}tile.cloudmade.com"
    + "/1a1b06b230af4efdbb989ea99e9841af" // http://cloudmade.com/register
    + "/998/256/{Z}/{X}/{Y}.png")
    .hosts(["a.", "b.", "c.", ""])));

map.add(po.compass()
    .pan("none"));