The main branch of uMap now ships a web socket server, enabling local changes to be replicated to other peers. Here is short video capturing how the import of some data can be synced between two browsers. It's pretty exciting, but the feature is not complete yet, and it's still …| (not) my ideas
Following a discussion with a friend, I realized the number of not-for-profit organizations could be a good indicator of activities in a city, potentially corellating it to well-being. I wanted to create a choropleth map, so that different cities appear in different colors on the map, depending on their respective …| (not) my ideas
Collaboration is one of the most requested features on uMap. I've talked in previous articles how we could add real-time features "the simple way", by: a) catching when changes are done on the interface ; b) sending messages to the other parties and ; c) applying the changes on the receiving client …| (not) my ideas
I've spent the last few weeks working on uMap, still with the goal of bringing real-time collaboration to the maps. I'm not there yet, but I've made some progress that I will relate here. JavaScript modules uMap has been there since 2012, at a time when ES6 wasn't out there …| (not) my ideas