MapColPal - your pal for cartographic color palettes

MapColPal is a tool to ease working with color palettes for thematic maps. It was originally created as part of a thesis within the Cartography M.Sc. programme and is currently maintained as a personal project. Feel free to reach out if you want to get involved!

Run the code yourself

Either

1. grab the last built version from the 'dist' folder, or
2. clone the repository, run npm install and then npm run dev to run the development environment or npm run build to build it yourself

Setup

MapColPal runs on the following stack:

Basic setup

via https://github.com/svelte-add/svelte-add :

npm create @svelte-add/vite@latest

• vite & svelte
• typescript
• postCSS, tailwindCSS and daisyUI

Further installed packages:

via npm

• d3.js to display and easily update map overlay
• chroma.js to work easier with colors
• leaflet.js to display basemap tiles
• leaflet-providers to easily use different sources for basemaps
• merge-images to merge basemap tiles to one big canvas to then extract colors from it
• color-blind to simulate CVD vision