mhalverson / roadtrip

Generate interactive maps of roadtrips

This repo will generate interactive maps of roadtrips.

It was originally developed for my 2018 roadtrip around the USA. It was slightly generalized for a roadtrip around New Zealand.

Overview

Powered by Folium.

Intended for integration into my personal website: https://github.com/mhalverson/website

Setup

• virtualenv env to create a virtualenv named env that will hold our dependencies in a sandbox
• . env/bin/activate to activate the virtualenv
• pip install -r requirements.txt to install (most) of the requirements into the virtualenv
• git clone https://github.com/python-visualization/folium.git to download the latest version of folium to local
• cd ./folium; pip install --user -e .; cd .. to install the necessary development version of folium into our virtualenv
• cd roadtrip/usa; git clone https://github.com/nationalparkservice/data.git; cd ../.. to download the national park and national monument boundaries
• Check that we have the right folium version installed: python -c 'import folium; print folium.__version__' should be >= 0.5.0+147.gcb3987a

Use

• jupyter notebook usa.ipynb to start a Jupyter Notebook server
• PYTHONPATH=. python roadtrip/usa/main.py to export the map and summary data to files on disk