Back in January, I promised that a future post would cover how to go from a street address to latitude / longitude coordinates. Previously, we have covered how to get the user’s street address, using navigator.geolocation and MapQuest and more recently, we covered converting addresses to latitude and longitude but that wasn’t an actual street...
Tag: Mapbox
State Parks App: Mapping the park locations
Earlier this year, we looked at Mapbox and how to use it to show a location on a map. I figured that now that we have a listing of park locations, it is time to look at mapping them. This might be a fairly brief post since everything that we are doing here has been...
Showing countries on a map using Mapbox
One of the things that I tried to add to my website, last summer was a map that showed what countries I had visited. I was never able to come up with a solution that I really liked but this week’s little experiment might fit the need. You might remember from our previous Mapbox post...
Showing a location on a map using Mapbox
Two weeks ago, we looked at how to embed a Mapbox map on a website. I figured that this time, we would look at how to mark a location on a map. We are going to look at two methods: dropping a pin on a map to show a location and drawing a shape to...
You can add a map to your website without using google maps!
So, you want to add a map to your website but you don’t want to (or can’t) use Google Maps? Luckily, you have a few options. The one that we are looking at today is Mapbox (which uses OpenStreetMap data). Mapbox has the benefit of a generous free tier (unlike Google Maps), and it’s pretty...