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A web application I made for viewing & using topographic maps in New Zealand.

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[–] fallaciousreasoning 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Some features it supports:

  • measuring distance and drawing tracks
  • generating elevation profiles (using the LINZ elevation API)
  • automatically caches areas you've viewed for offline use
  • viewing mountains and routes from https://climbnz.org.nz/mountains
  • viewing doc huts
  • live weather (scraped from Metservice)

The source code is available here: https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/topo