Show HN: Shareable maps with data encoded in the URL

#1

Post by plant99 » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 12:58 PM UTC

Hi HN, I built a tool to create minimalistic vector maps online, and generate a URL with the entire dataset as query params.

The URLs generated are off-putting, but in turn you get private shareable maps.

The code for the website is also open source and lives at https://github.com/ironmaps/mapinurl/ .

Please let me know if you have any usecases I could solve for.

Re: Show HN: Shareable maps with data encoded in the URL

#2

Post by KomoD » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 4:25 PM UTC

I never like the type of web apps that put data in the URL, they become unbearable to share.

I put down a few points, drew a box over south america, it resulted in a URL that is almost 1700 characters long.

#3

Post by snisarenko » Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 6:01 PM UTC

This is pretty cool! Nice tool.

#4

Post by xianco78 » Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 7:03 PM UTC

Interesting!

#5

Post by plant99 » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 11:11 AM UTC

xianco78 wrote: post #4

Interesting!

Thanks, I hope you found it useful.

#6

Post by plant99 » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 11:12 AM UTC

snisarenko wrote: post #3

This is pretty cool! Nice tool.

Thank you, I hope you'd find it useful.