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See my travel map

This repo contains a very small website to list all the places I have ever visited in the world. Rule is simple: I have to have spent at least a night in the location.

Requirements

You will need a Google Maps API key. It must be placed in a 'gmaps.key' file at the root of this repo.

How does it work?

It will "translate" human readable addresses placed in places_log.txt into a Geojson file that can be displayed by Leaflet.

The addresses only need to be understood by Google Maps Geocode API; so you can be as loose or precise as you want. Examples

New York City, USA
1 This St, Porters Lake, NS B3E 1H4, Canada

How do I add new places?

Manually

Edit places_log.txt and add the address. The only limitation is one address per line.

Using a git pre-commit hook

Create a post-receive script in your .git/hooks directory with the following content: Note : Don't forget to chmod +x post-receive, or it will not work.

#!/bin/sh
if [ "$(git name-rev --name-only HEAD)" != "main" ]; then
    python geocode.py
fi

For each commit, it'll run that script which will take the content of places_log.txt and update places.geojson if need be.