Live tracking from Oslo to Bergen by foot - ready for takeoff!

Update August 2: I had to cancel the trip on day 3 due to serious illness in close family.

Follow the trip on: 

• oslobergen.no
• facebook.com/groups/oslo.bergen
• instagram.com/instanturban

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: 

[ Fullscreen map | Code ]

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! :-)

Geek on hike