World Walk Web (version 0.2)

(Creation: Dec. 10, 2019, 4:56 p.m. , last release: Dec. 31, 2019, 4:26 p.m. )

IRL Fog of War. Geographic / data vizualisation experiment.

Principle

Generates a dynamic map showing the current state of your fog of war in real life, more explicitely area you explored.

Input

Gps data about hiking / driving.

Visual

Leaflet js/html map

Use

Code is available here
Requires Python 3, Jupyter, GeoPandas, Folium, Shapely

You need to:
1) Generate a GeoJSON with dots and lines (manually or by a gps app export) , for example via uMap
2) Set this json file as import in the shapeCreator.py file
3) Run the notebook
4) Open the local macarte.html file with a browser (internet access required to load maps from OpenStreetMaps) and be amazed by your journey.

Status

First draft, a lot of things to improve but functional.

Todo

• create a requirements.txt to make install easier
• give a ready to use geojson sample
• handle additional informations
• handle various size, shape and transparency
• recast code so that display manipulations will depend only on the jupyter notebook
• expand base rectangle to cover whole world

Long term / Fantasy

• be able to manipulate input data (add/delete/edit) directly on final map (to hide all inside complexity)

Software link

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