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🌍 Geospatial apps and experiments
Place-Place
A geographic game about locating places on a map… without a map.
Project page
Source code
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.
Project page
Source code
Irish tune map
An interactive map of Irish traditional tunes, based on the locations they refer to. Using data from
TheSession.org
.
Project page
Blog article
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
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
StaticMapZoom (React)
A lightweight zoomable mini-map component, inspired by the Flickr photo location widget.
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.
Project page
Blog article
Source code
thread-reader-reader
A tool to convert a Twitter thread and its images to a plain HTML markup.
Blog article
Source code