Closely shows useful amenities close to your position. Use it when travelling to find a nice picnic site, drinking water, toilets, etc.
The application is available online for free. It uses OpenStreetMap for the map tiles, and taginfo to know about the amenities.
The application looks like the following:
On the top left panel you can:
- Look for a location to display (e.g. “Paris”),
- Or use your current location,
- Hide the panel,
- Select the kind of amenities to show on the map.
On mobile devices, I recommend using the “add to home screen” feature (house with a plus button):
Clicking on the house with a plus button will add a shortcut to the web app on your home screen, for quicker access.
Contributions are welcome! You can contribute in two ways. First, indirectly, by tagging places on OpenStreetMap. Second, by contributing to the source code of closely.
Here are some examples of possible contributions:
- Add a new kind of amenities to the list,
- Improve the rendering of the tooltips (currently they simply show the list of tags),
- Create a proper mobile app.
Install sbt.
Run the project with the following command (it has to be executed from the root directory):
$ sbt run
And then browse http://localhost:9000.
This content is released under the MIT License.