New Mapping The Alaskan Sled Race

The Mapbox Blog is continuing to showcase maps built using Turf.js. The latest demonstration of the geospatial processing abilities of Turf is an animated map of the Iditarod, an annual sled domestic dog race which takes house  inAlaska.

Time Travel Across the Iditarod amongst Turf replays the whole race, allowing yous to follow the progress of each of the domestic dog sleds over the cast of the fifteen solar daytime race. As the map plays out yous tin click on whatsoever of the moving map markers to persuasion the driver of the selected sled. You tin likewise select whatsoever of the riders from the map sidebar.

Another groovy seem of this map is that during the night-time hours of the race the map tiles fade darker in addition to and thence fade to lighter tiles for the daylight hours.

If yous desire to elbow grease out Turf.js check-out the API documentation, which has latterly been updated amongst instance code in addition to maps.

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