Preparations

Before posts can be displayed on maps, the following steps must be taken:

• Geocoding of posts and / or tags
• Generation of an application-specific representations (GeoJSON, KML)

After this has been done, the next step can be approached.

An example of the old 3D images can be found in the map GeoJSON file.

Plotting data on a map in a browser

The map material provided by OpenStreetMap can be used to display the generated data in the browser. An external server generates the images needed to display a map.

Update: Hugo 0.82.0 is now being used

Up to the time this article was written, Hugo 0.74.3 from July 23, 2020 was used, at that time the current version was 0.79. Changes to the handling of JavaScript build processes prevent an update. To make matters worse, homebrew has been getting worse lately. Downgrades are no longer possible simply from the command line. In the meantime, Hugo is being built directly from the sources, see below.

Since one of the goals of this blog is to find ways to transport analog content into digital space, here is an attempt to make fabrics tangible …