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🌍 Geospatial apps and experiments
Place-Place
A geographic game about locating places on a map… without a map.
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Bird tracking map
A deck.gl visualization of some bird migrations.
Project page
Blog article
Source code
P.I.L.I.
A web version of vintage lightbulb-based interactive maps of the Parisian metro.
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Source code
Geotracker
An old GPS track recorder web app, made originally for the FirefoxOS operating system during a 1-day hackathon at Mozilla. Later converted to a "normal" web app.
FirefoxOS version
Web version
🌐 Geospatial libraries
StaticMapZoom (React)
A lightweight zoomable mini-map component, inspired by the Flickr photo location widget.
Blog article
Source code
Leaflet plugins
Some extensions for the great
Leaflet
JavaScript map library.
PolylineDecorator
PolylineOffset
MagnifyingGlass
alt-route-labeller
A JavaScript library to compute the best positions to put labels on multiple routes between two points.
Blog article
Source code
jkstra
A basic JavaScript graph and routing library. Coded primarily as the base engine of a metro routing web app.
Source code
⚙️ Other developments
Clean CNRTL
A simpler, more accessible, mobile-friendly web interface for the TLFi, a popular French linguistic ressource.
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Blog article
Source code
HTML compass
A working compass as a one-page progessive web app for mobile devices.
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Source code
thread-reader-reader
A tool to convert a Twitter thread and its images to a plain HTML markup.
Blog article
Source code