Tuesday Session: Three.js Layer Workshop

For participants of the 14:30 Three.js Layer workshop, who want to code along, the following instructions should ensure that everything is working correctly:

1. Download and install a local web server on your laptop, for example XAMPP

2. Go to the following link and download the zip-folder to your harddrive.

3. Extract the zip-folder into your webserver’s root directory (on XAMPP this is called “htdocs”) so that you have a file structure like …\htdocs\Three_js_layer_workshop\index.html

4. Start your webserver (On XAMPP open the control panel and click “Start” in the first row besides where it says Apache).

5. When the server is running, you can access the site by entering the following url into your browser: localhost/Three_js_Layer_Workshop

If everything works, you should see an empty black map with its center over Scotland.

The idea of the workshop is to create a sample visualization with three.js Layer, which should make visible the  a dataset from the addressing history api. The dataset (comes with the zip-folder) acommodates 10.000 geo referenced historic adresses from the Scottish Post Office Directories.