Update August 2: I had to cancel the trip on day 3 due to serious illness in close family.
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Tomorrow, Thursday 31 July, I'm starting on my four weeks hike from Oslo to Bergen. It's been a very nice and warm summer in Norway, so it's been hard to work on my real-time trekking map. But if everything works, you should be able to follow me on this map:
The map shows the real-time position sent from my SPOT device and -
- Place name, altitude and terrain types fetched from the the Norwegian Mapping Authority.
- Weather forecast for the specific time and position.
- Instagram photos along the way.
- Real-time elevation profile.
- Sortable table of all recorded positions.
- GPS track (in the map menu), more detailed than the SPOT track.
I'll blog about the technicalities after the trip. The expedition code is available on GitHub under a GPL licence if you want to dig in: https://github.com/turban/oslobergen
A few notes:
- All data is synced with CartoDB.
- The map is of course made with Leaflet.
- I'm using sphere-knn to quickly find the nearest position when you're hovering og clicking the track line.
- I'm using crossfilter to quickly sync the map and the elevation profile.
- The elevation profile is made with Highcharts.
- I'm able to upload GPS tracks (GPX) from my mobile phone with USB OTG.
- The user interface and grid is made with Ext JS 5. Maybe not the smartest move, as it's a huge download for mobile devices.
Hope it's working! :-)
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