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Colored circles for waypoints looked too similar to a base map style's own small circular POI icons, so uploaded POI data blended into the map instead of standing out. Switched the marker shape to a pin/teardrop (reusing the existing WAYPOINT_ICON path, filled instead of stroked) — no base map style uses that shape for its own points, so it reads immediately as "your data". Anchored at its tip, the standard map-pin convention, rather than centered on the coordinate. Also swapped the hand-drawn category glyphs for the National Park Service's own map symbols (github.com/nationalparkservice/symbol-library, BSD licensed, forked from Mapbox's Maki) for the six categories it covers — professional, purpose-built pictograms beat ad-hoc "fuel pump"/"picnic table" line art. `forest` has no NPS equivalent and stays hand-drawn. The glyph now sits in the pin's head rather than centered on a flat dot, which needed real geometry (both layers anchor to the same point, so the offset is the gap between where the pin's head-center ends up and where the glyph's own visual center already sits) rather than the old anchor="center" zero-offset placement.
MapTool
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A mapping application written in Ruby with Sinatra.
The project’s shape is still open — this is the initial scaffold.
Status
Early scaffold. The web application serves a vector map (MapLibre GL JS), with an online style and an optional offline style backed by a local PMTiles file, an animated RainViewer radar overlay, GPX upload/display (points and tracks, organized in folders), and a live position marker from a local GNSS receiver via gpsd.
Requirements
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Ruby (see
.ruby-version) and Bundler
Getting started
bundle install
bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rbThen open http://127.0.0.1:4567 in a browser.