Today Bjørn Sandvik ready out on an epic trek from Oslo to Bergen inward Norway. You tin follow Bjørn's progress alive on an impressive Leaflet map. Oslo-Bergen Til Fots (Oslo-Bergen on Foot) shows Bjørn's alive position, photos he has taken on his trek too an summit profile.
The map on its ain is pretty amazing. What is genuinely awesome, however, is that Bjørn's weblog Thematic Mapping has been recording the creation of this map over the final few months. Read the weblog too you lot tin uncovering out how the map was built too fifty-fifty choose care of about of the code behind the map.
For example, Showing Instagram Photos too Videos on a Leaflet Map discusses the Leaflet plug-in (and gives the GitHub link for the plug-in) he created to add together Instagram photos to the map. Other posts on the weblog explicate how to operate a SPOT Satellite Messenger to runway too map your trips too how to usage an summit profile.
