Making your thematic map

Are you ready to build some maps? We can do this without the use of GeoServer since we have not yet discussed how to install it; we will cover that in the next chapter. For the moment we will play with an online map engine to assist your understanding of thematic map concepts:

  1. First, download the WorldBank.csv file from the Packt site. This file contains a set of economic data already prepared for you. The data comes from the World Bank and was preprocessed to let you focus on the thematic map:
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital programs. It also distributes a lot of social and economic data under an open data license. The data used ...

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