1 pointby tripgeo3 hours ago1 comment
  • tripgeo3 hours ago
    I built GeoCards to make geographic discovery more fluid.

    The Tech Stack:

    MapLibre GL: For the vector map rendering.

    OpenFreeMap: I’m using their 'Liberty' style for the tiles.

    Wikipedia REST API: To pull the page summaries and thumbnails.

    Photon (Komoot): For the geocoding/search functionality.

    The Challenge: One of the trickier parts was ensuring that clicking a label actually registered the correct entity. I’ve implemented a fallback to a Wikipedia GeoSearch (radius-based) if the specific label name doesn’t have a direct "Summary" page match.