Visualizing GPS tracks with RikiTraki
Ricardo Morin
FOSS4G NA 2016 Presentation Proposal
WORK IN PROGRESS DRAFT
January 7, 2016
What is RikiTraki?
(DEMO)
Built with great Free and Open Source components
Client
Web Services
Database
Mapping
Web Frameworks
... plus these awesome open source projects
The time savings are simply amazing!
| Leaflet.Elevation | Visualizing elevation profiles |
| Leaflet-omnivore | Parsing GPX files |
| Leaflet.markercluster | Visualizing marker groups |
| Lightbox2 | Displaying slide shows |
| exif-js | Reading exif data |
| passport | Authentication for nodejs |
| bcryptjs | Password hashing |
| jsonwebtoken | JWS token handling |
| is-my-json-valid | JSON schema validation |
... and using only free data and services
Thunderforest
Total cost thus far: $0
Client architecture
Single Page
Mapper
Forms
Config
Data
Utils
REST
Web Services architecture
Web Service
Routes
Tracks
Users
Schemas
Utils
DB Connection, Authentication
Static
Resources
REST
API
DATA
Access
Key technology decisions
- Architecture options
- Web mapping libraries
- Lightweight vs full frameworks
- Choice of languages
- SQL vs NoSQL
- BLOB storage
- Drivers vs ODM
- Security
- Scaling
Challenges & lessons learned
- Developing incrementally
- Ensuring consistent look and feel across mapping libraries
- Maintaining multi-browser compatibility, especially mobile
- Dealing with stale libraries/projects
- Keeping an eye on performance and scalability
Selected code examples
What's next?
- User requests
- vDrone visualization
- Draw tracks
- Drag and drop geotagging
- Reverse geocode region tags
- Performance
Resources
| Client code repository | https://github.com/jimmyangel/rikitraki |
| Server code repository | https://github.com/jimmyangel/rikitrakiws |
| Blog | http://blog.rikitraki.com |
| Cesium demos page | http://cesiumjs.org/demos/RikiTraki.html |