Japan Rail map for JRPass.com
almost 2 years ago
JRPass.com is a leading provider of Japan Rail passes for use on the extensive Japanese rail system. JRPass.com had an old Google Maps site which required refreshing.
The first phase was to collate the railway lines and stations from a number of sources, prioritise them into Shinkansen, Japan Rail, and non-Japan Rail lines, then associate stations to each line. Then the datasets were loaded into MabBox Studio for styling and labelling, and published as vector tiles.
The interactive map ...
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Weather Reporter
over 3 years ago
This project started with a hunch - that the 7-day weather forecast isn't reliable enough to be of any practical use. So many times you check the weather and see that it's supposed to be cold and rainy next weekend - then when the day comes around it's actually warm and sunny.
So the aim of this project was to provide a reverse-weather-report. That is, instead of showing the predictions for the next 7 days from today the Weather Reporter shows *what they predicted today's weather would...
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A map-centric travel blog for photograhers
about 4 years ago
I love maps, and taking travel photos, so when it came time to revamp my family's old travel blog I knew I wanted to make the maps a central part of the experience.
I built this site using Rails 5, and it functions like a standard blog with the ability to create & edit posts, view next/previous entries, etc. The difference is that each blog post is georeferenced, which allows me to show an interactive map on each post (this shows the locations of nearby posts).
Furthermore, a full-scree...
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