Building a General Purpose GeoJSON Viewer with Leaflet

Last week I shared my initial experiences with Leaflet and I thought I’d share a small demo I built with it – a general purpose GeoJSON viewer. GeoJSON and Leaflet As I mentioned at the end of my last post, GeoJSON is a specification for encoding ad hoc geographic data. Here’s an example: { "type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [ { "type": "Feature", "id": 0, "properties": { "Code": "FRLA", "Name": "Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site" }, "geometry":... more →
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An Online Mastodon Archive Viewer

Here’s a quick write-up of something I actually built a week or so ago… and forgot to share on the blog. Instead, I shared a way to integrate your Mastodon with Eleventy. In that post, I mentioned how the account Fedi.Tips was looking for ways to let people view their archived Mastodon data. I followed their guide on getting my export and started work on a simple viewer. If you don’t care about the "how", and have your archive ready, just head on over to https://tootviewer.netlify.app and upload your zip. The Archive # When you get your Mastodon archive, it will be a zip file containing the following: actor.json: A file related to the user, yourself probably. avatar.jpg:... more →
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Windows 10’s WordPad, Character map, Fax and Scan, XPS Viewer apps now available on the Windows Store – MSPoweruser.com

MSPoweruser.com Windows 10's WordPad, Character map, Fax and Scan, XPS Viewer apps now available on the Windows StoreMSPoweruser.comA few months ago, we reported that Microsoft is bringing WordPad, Windows Fax and Scan, XPS Viewer and the Microsoft Character Map apps to the Windows Store. The apps are now available on the Windows Store for download, and Windows Insiders …Microsoft updates Windows 10 Maps app, including migration tool for users of HERE appsNeowinWindows 10 Maps Gets a Major Update as HERE Apps Fade AwayThurrott.com (blog)Windows 10 Maps app update brings guided nav improvementsSlashGearEngadget –Windows Reportall 252 news articles » map... more →
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