Topi Tjukqnov has gear upward a 30 Day Map Challenge. The challenge is to brand a dissimilar map every solar daytime during November. To assist inspire cartographers Topi has likewise published a listing of thirty dissimilar themes together with functionality that your maps could include on each day.
Nov 1st's proffer is 'points'.
Inspired past times Closest Volcano I decided that for the starting fourth dimension solar daytime of the #30DayMapChallenge I would exercise a Nearest Mountain interactive map. If you lot larn into an address into the Nearest Mountain map hence the closest mount volition live on highlighted on the map. The map sidebar volition listing all the other peaks inward the U.S. inward lodge of distance from your address. The map likewise informs you lot how many miles away each mount is from your address.
The information for my map comes from Open Peaks, an opensource listing of mountains around the basis which is available every bit a serial of GeoJSON files. I solely used the GeoJSON file for the USA (which doesn't include Hawaii for some reason). This agency that my map volition solely piece of job for addresses inward the contiguous USA.
To exercise my map I elementary cloned the end map inward Mapbox's Build a Store Locator tutorial. I hence exactly switched out the GeoJSON file of stores inward the master for my Open Peaks GeoJSON file of mountains inward the USA.
If you lot desire to run across what everybody else has created today for the #30DayMapChallenge exactly accept a await at the hashtag on Twitter.
