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Sunday, December 13, 2020

Arrows Swoop On Berlin Airport


On the same appointment equally Germany's recent full general election Berliners likewise got to vote on whether to become ahead amongst the planned closure of the city's Tegel Airport. The Berliner Morgenpost's interactive map of the plebiscite results got swamped a petty past times all the German Election maps.

The Tegel Volksentscheid 2017 interactive map shows y'all how many people voted 'yes' or 'no' inwards each electoral ward. The map includes an overlay which shows y'all the areas which prevarication nether the principal flight-paths for planes landing too taking off from Tegel Airport. That overlay is annotated on the map amongst a cracking 'swoopy arrow'.

Of aeroplane y'all actually don't help most the hereafter of Berlin's airports. All y'all desire to know is how the Berliner Morgenpost created that swoopy arrow pointing from the 'Tegel-Einflugschneise' label to the flight-path overlay on the map. Luckily for y'all the paper has released the code for Leaflet-swoopy equally a plugin for Leaflet.js. You tin honor the plugin too documentation on Webkid's blog.