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 hateful solar daytime race. As the map plays out yous tin flaming click on whatever of the moving map markers to persuasion the driver of the selected sled. You tin flaming too select whatever of the riders from the map sidebar.

Another bully expression of this map is that during the night-time hours of the race the map tiles fade darker too and thus fade to lighter tiles for the daylight hours.

If yous desire to elbow grease out Turf.js check-out the API documentation, which has late been updated amongst representative code too maps.