Mapbox + Turf on Rails
This app was originally based off Rui Freitas' Mapbox Clusters. Thanks Rui for all the Model => GeoJSON goodness.
About This Project
Mapbox API is a great mapping & location tool to develop with. However, plotting a geospatial accurate radius can be challenging and require quite a bit of tile & zoom modificaitons to get it to work. Turf.js is a geospatial tool that makes it easy to calculate GeoJSON polygons. Intergrating Turf.js into a Mapbox API on Rails was something that I hadn't been able to find, so I built my own solution.
What this App does
Mapbox + Turf on Rails allows a user to create an office location, geocode the address (using GeoKit), save the record, pass the GeoJSON dataset to Mapbox.js to populate on the Map div. I also utilize Geokit's within_radius method to pass multiple offices that fall within a certain radius param.
Some Must-Haves or Good-to-Knows
This app does make a few assumptions. Have these guys handy to help deploy:
- Mapbox API Key
- Any other Geocode API key if you want to use Geokit with another provider
- ENV variables defined somewhere. I use DotENV for this
- CSS Framework is Skeleton CSS, a dead simple boilerplate you can easily remove if you wish.
Get Started
- Git clone this badboy
- Yarn install
- Bundle install
- Add ENV Details (There is a default.env you can use to create your .env file)
- rake db commands (create, migrate & seed)
- Rails s
Any questions or help, hit me up on Twitter @somethingkillr or mpope@somethingkiller.com