About

This version of the campus map was designed and developed in 2012 by University Marketing (now the Office of Strateigc Communication).

Browser requirements

The map depends on a web browser that supports WebGL2. All modern browsers do, but if it is disabled, the map will not load and a message indicating such will appear instead.

The map also depends upon modern Javascript. The map will run on any relatively newer version of Chrome, Firefox and Safari, as long as Javascript is enabled (it is by default.)

Contact us

If you have trouble using the map or if you have suggestions for improvements, please email us.

Acknowledgments

Staff from the UW Cartography Lab and the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s office provided us with invaluable advice and feedback throughout the development process of the first iteration of the campus map.

Katie Kowalsky, a 2016 graduate of the UW Cartography program, designed the basemap that was implmented in 2017.

Staff from UW Facilities, Planning and Management have provided (and continue to provide) important feedback and data related to the accuracy of the map.

Staff from the UW Division of Information Technology have been critical in helping us configure a system for deploying a Rails app running against PostgreSQL with PostGIS.

Technology acknowledgments

This map was built using a number of free and open source software (FOSS) components. We thank the makers of these technologies for making them freely available. For now, here is a listing of some of the more notable ones:

• OpenStreetMap
  
• JOSM
  
• PostgreSQL
• PostGIS
• Ruby on Rails
• Mapbox GL JS
• Shoelace Web Components