New The Antarctic Mapping Challenge


Barney Swan, Martin Barnett together with Kyle O’Donoghue are currently task a grueling 600-mile, 60-day trek to the South Pole. You tin follow their progress on an interactive map. The South Pole Energy Challenge map shows the progress made thence far together with also features video updates together with photos taken on this epic 600-mile journey.

The interactive map of the trek features aerial imagery of Antarctica, the locations of Scott's hut & a release of geographical features such equally the H2O ice shelves. Two small-scale buttons on the map allow yous to access biographical information most Barney Swann together with his begetter Robert Swann. The large xanthous map mark shows yous the electrical current set of the 3 remaining explorers.

Looking at the source-code for the map it appears that the mapping fellowship ZeroSixZero has created their ain polar projection map of Antarctica using map information from a release of unlike sources (credited on the map). This polar projection has thence been imported into Leaflet.js using the Proj4Leaflet plugin for map projections non natively supported yesteryear Leaflet.

If yous desire to map the other halt of the populace thence yous tin ever purpose the Arctic Web Map, an Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server.
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