Oh, what's there?
A knockout.js map project. Proof of concept demo. View live version here: http://ohwhatsthere.franziskusnakajima.net/
Description:
Map of lakes in Berlin, making use of Berlin city's own api endpoints (due to lack of CORS support, http://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/ is used), together with information retrieved via the Wikipedia api, as well as images loaded via tumblr api by tag.
Requirements
- Web browser capable of running javascript
Quickstart
- clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/Kyushi/ohwhatsthere.git - open folder
- open file
index.htmlin you preferred browser (Internet connection required)
Technologies used
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- SASS
- Knockout.js
- jQuery
APIs used
- Google Maps Javascript API (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/)
- Google Places Library to load photos for locations
- Wikipedia API (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page)
- Berlin Open Data API (https://daten.berlin.de/datensaetze/liste-der-badestellen)
- http://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/ for retrieving non-CORS Berlin Open Data (Massive thanks!)