Mapping with Leaflet.JS and geoJSON

[ebeshero]

This weekend I experimented with a way to look up place data and output it on a webmap. There's an open source/free web service called Leaflet.JS that helps wtih putting lightweight maps on websites (and it's used by TimeMapper that we explored in DIGIT 100).

Instead of feeding Leaflet from a Google Sheet, we can output place data from the Mitford Journal and Site Index using a data structure called geoJSON . I set up a simple web map on the Quark project this weekend just to make sure we know how it works (what structures the service expects, etc). Check it out + some documentation here: cbl5678/fluffyFishstick#1

In our case, we have some latitude and longitude coordinates coded in the si.xml. (I'm not sure I remember how many already have this code.) Where we don't we can try scraping the data the way we are with the Quark team code.
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