Technicoder / leaflet-git-exercise

A git exercise with a mapping theme

GIT Collaboration Exercise - With Mapping!

This is an exercise to help geography-wizards-in-training learn how to use Git in the context of mapping.

GeoJSON is a flavour of JSON (Javascript Object Notation) that is used for denoting geography on the web.

Setup

Download

In your command line, type in git clone https://github.com/brianbancroft/leaflet-git-exercise.git and you'll be able load and edit the GeoJSON.

Running

Bear with me. Generally, the best practice when running a web page is to do it on a virtual server.

This doesn't mean you have to purchase any special equipment, but there is some downloading to do. There are two really easy ways to pull this off:

• Download Python and run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 3000 in the command line while you're in the right directory, then type in localhost:3000 in your web browser address bar
  • (if you already have python, then you can skip the download) OR
• Download NodeJS,
• Download Node Package Manager (NPM),
• In the command line, type in npm install -g http-server; then,
• Then type in serve in the command line (in the proper directory) and localhost:8080 in the address bar

You don't have to reset either server when you've modified the files in the directory. Just refresh the browser!