The tiling pipeline is the easy part to underestimate; documenting how you sliced and served zoom levels is genuinely useful for anyone doing map-style UIs. Nice work.
Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth
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#52PS: There have been a few questions about the tiling system used. It's based on https://leafletjs.com/ and you will find it all in the Github repo. Its one of the more interesting parts of the project: https://github.com/frasermarlow/middle-earth-map The tiles were pre-generated from the source image using generate_tiles.py — a Python script that slices the big map into 256x256 JPEG tiles at three zoom levels . Leafl…
This is pretty cool man, I appreciate you sharing what you did on GitHub. I’m just a codelet script kiddie crashing around the Google Maps api for fun and I love seeing projects like this.
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#54Would love just for fun to feed this through an image generator to make it look like satellite imagery or maybe even Google Maps.
Not related to this project but you might like this map from the ArdaCraft project
https://www.micahvanderlugt.com/middle-earth-3d
Re: Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth
#55PS: There have been a few questions about the tiling system used. It's based on https://leafletjs.com/ and you will find it all in the Github repo. Its one of the more interesting parts of the project: https://github.com/frasermarlow/middle-earth-map The tiles were pre-generated from the source image using generate_tiles.py — a Python script that slices the big map into 256x256 JPEG tiles at three zoom levels . Leafl…
The generated satellite tiles are interesting. The sea is very dry. And some mountains are looking very strange. At least for some places (e.g. Mount Doom) the AI should have been able to generate more "realistic" images.
Interesting project. I might "steal" that for teaching purposes.
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#56And all this without OpenGL! Kudos.
My new favorite insult towards web services that are badly done is: "even fully vibe-coded Codex would've done better".
Re: Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth
#57PS: There have been a few questions about the tiling system used. It's based on https://leafletjs.com/ and you will find it all in the Github repo. Its one of the more interesting parts of the project: https://github.com/frasermarlow/middle-earth-map The tiles were pre-generated from the source image using generate_tiles.py — a Python script that slices the big map into 256x256 JPEG tiles at three zoom levels . Leafl…
This is pretty cool man, I appreciate you sharing what you did on GitHub. I’m just a codelet script kiddie crashing around the Google Maps api for fun and I love seeing projects like this.
If you put in a credit card, look out, the Google maps API can get very expensive very quickly!
Re: Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth
#58PS: There have been a few questions about the tiling system used. It's based on https://leafletjs.com/ and you will find it all in the Github repo. Its one of the more interesting parts of the project: https://github.com/frasermarlow/middle-earth-map The tiles were pre-generated from the source image using generate_tiles.py — a Python script that slices the big map into 256x256 JPEG tiles at three zoom levels . Leafl…
The generated satellite tiles are interesting. The sea is very dry. And some mountains are looking very strange. At least for some places (e.g. Mount Doom) the AI should have been able to generate more "realistic" images. Interesting project. I might "steal" that for teaching purposes.
Ha ha. Yeah. That was a first wild attempt. If I get time I will figure out how to fine tune the mock-satellite imagery to properly reflect ocean, lakes, trees, castles etc.
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#59The first thing that poped in my head when seeing this: it must have taken quite some time to thoroughly go thought all this to make it. The developer must have a huge passion for LOTR. Seeing all the message that it was build using AI it hugely deminishes this feeling. Still a very nice looking map.
I totally get that. Sorry if it was a letdown. In reality I built this map as part of a personal exploration of the lore and background of Tolkien's lore, because i am fascinated by it. This felt like a productive way to share my learnings with others in a fun way. I certainly learnt a lot from going through the process.
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#60As much hate as vibe-coding gets (and most of it is justified), it has also allowed all of us to vibe-code our thoughts to small single-page web apps very easily. Shameless vibe-coded plugs for my own regular usage: 1. https://llm-token-cost-calculator.pagey.site/ 2. https://metrics-memory-usage.pagey.site/
Whatever you're using as your visual templating instructions, I like it. Mind sharing? Been using a slightly modified Tufte template for my vibed small apps, but this is much better.
I added some notes above on the tiling technology. As for the base map itself I posted a link to the original file. I hope that helps but happy to answer any other questions you might have.