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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Mapping The Alaskan Sled Race


The Mapbox Blog is continuing to showcase maps built using Turf.js. The latest demonstration of the geospatial processing abilities of Turf is an animated map of the Iditarod, an annual sled domestic dog race which takes house  inAlaska.

Time Travel Across the Iditarod amongst Turf replays the whole race, allowing yous to follow the progress of each of the domestic dog sleds over the form of the fifteen twenty-four hours race. As the map plays out yous tin click on whatever of the moving map markers to thought the driver of the selected sled. You tin likewise select whatever of the riders from the map sidebar.

Another peachy facial expression of this map is that during the night-time hours of the race the map tiles fade darker in addition to thence fade to lighter tiles for the daylight hours.

If yous desire to endeavour out Turf.js check-out the API documentation, which has of late been updated amongst illustration code in addition to maps.