Steepless is a web app to find the flattest routes and avoid the hilliest routes.
I visited and stayed in San Francisco for 4 months, and the very first thing I realised that I need is a tool to navigate around the steep hills there. I wanted to build an app for that. I came back to Singapore and finally find the time to build it. And I call it Steepless.
This app also gives me a chance to try out the React library, which I find very interesting.
While building Steepless, I've done a bunch of research and found there are similar attempts by other developers:
Steepless is yet another attempt.
It was my first attempt at building a React.JS app.
3 years later, Google "copied" it, which is apparently a killer new feature.
8 years later, I decided to revive this project.
The design is initially inspired by a Google Maps demo for elevation in San Francisco (link borked, I couldn't find another or updated link). The rest of the UI is partially inspired by Google's Material Design.
The SVG icon sprite is generated with Fontastic.
Requires Node.js.
npm installto install the dependencies.npm startto start the server.