datachand / steepless

An app to find the flattest routes and avoid the hilliest routes

Steepless

Steepless is an app to find the flattest routes and avoid the hilliest routes.

Story

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:

• Bikesy
• Hill Mapper
• The Steeps Of San Francisco and its sequel
• Flattest Route
• Hillmap

Steepless is yet another attempt.

Design

The design is initially inspired by a Google Maps demo for elevation in San Francisco. The rest of the UI is partially inspired by Google's Material Design.

The SVG icon sprite is generated with Fontastic.

Development

Requires Node.js and gulp.js.

• npm install to install the dependencies.
• gulp to start the server at localhost:8000.

License

MIT