That and your other projects at lbebber.github.io/public are stellar, Lucas!
lbebber 38 days ago [-]
Thank you, glad you like it!
trebeljahr 37 days ago [-]
+1 to this!
What great work :)
whycome 38 days ago [-]
Is there something like this that uses KMZ waypoints to craft the map/animation?
cmod 38 days ago [-]
Thank you for building this; over the years the bus animation has gone a bit wonky, but otherwise the page holds up really well. It’s a great library you built.
lbebber 37 days ago [-]
Beautiful work! I thought the bus was a fun goofy touch on its first appearance hahah
peterldowns 38 days ago [-]
I didn't realize you were the original programmer on this — amazing work!
lbebber 37 days ago [-]
Thank you! I both programmed and designed this--I miss doing this kind of work.
neuraldenis 38 days ago [-]
Amazing project, love it!
exabrial 38 days ago [-]
This is the first time for me where a website hijacked the scroll wheel, and it's actually _really really_ well done. This is amazing. Thanks for posting it.
daemonologist 38 days ago [-]
The key is that it doesn't actually hijack the scroll wheel - the main content (header and text and photos on the left) all scrolls normally, controlled by the browser. The map just monitors the scroll position and element client rects and runs its own non-blocking visualization on the side.
I agree - beautifully implemented, and great content too.
kyleblarson 38 days ago [-]
Doing a temple stay at Koyasan is by far my favorite lifetime travel experience.
trebeljahr 36 days ago [-]
what made it so special?
bpev 37 days ago [-]
Fyi for those who tap in and see the map in the background instead of to the right of the content, the layout/treatment feels pretty different for desktop vs mobile.
trebeljahr 37 days ago [-]
This is soooo cool! It is not the blog I was searching for but wow :) Thanks for sharing it.
EDIT: Any HN mods/devs reading this -- there seems to be a display bug for comment creation time? On edit it says 20hrs (accurate), whereas viewing the comments otherwise shows that it was posted an hour ago. Not sure what's going on
Some older users (I think YC alumni) can nominate articles and moderators give them a boost. The timestamp doesn't change, I've seen 2 day old articles appearing. It's a bit confusing, I think it was hacked in years ago but works good enough.
Surprised it still mostly works fine many years later
slopdo 36 days ago [-]
I'm not able to find the post that OP refers to about how you animated the SVGs. Maybe you could share the link? Thanks!
trebeljahr 37 days ago [-]
thanks for the great work :)
trebeljahr 37 days ago [-]
daaaamn!
That's the one :)
Thank you so much for finding it!
yapyap 38 days ago [-]
I also see it as posted an hour ago, and see the original thread post as 2 hours ago.
Odd.
illwrks 38 days ago [-]
So.. I don't know what you're talking about but I work in a corporate environment where we can't use JS but we can use SVG images... As a consequence I end up creating graphics in illustrator, exporting to SVG and then hand animating them with CSS animations.
I wouldn't recommend doing it my way, but for path animations they are likely animating the stroke length. Here is an example that might help, but use an animation tool if you can.
One thing of note with stroke animations.. if you transition to/from negative numbers the animation breaks in Safari (negative numbers are out of spec aparently). There is a work around but I can't remember it at the moment, it results in the stroke animation playing in reverse though.
As mentioned above, if you can use a JS library, use one.
trebeljahr 36 days ago [-]
nice, thanks for the article. Never seen this trick before but it looks super neat.
What sort of JS library would you recommend for a similar effect to this?
PixiJs, D3, Paper, P5.js, good old vanilla canvas?
illwrks 36 days ago [-]
It depends on what your overall goal is.
GSAP is a great but I’m not sure it’s suitable for SVG as it’s been a long time since I’ve used it.
If you have access to creative tools like illustrator and after effects then perhaps Lottie.
There are other tools on my radar but I’ve never used them SVGGator
this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while and I'll take inspiration from the article.
Also, funny how in the blog post it says the Github will come soon and now almost a decade later there is still no Github link :)
bazzargh 38 days ago [-]
Not animated or svg, but along the same lines, some years ago I wrote https://bazzargh.github.io/stripmap/ which automates generating stripmaps. The idea was to eventually use this for travelogues of my cycling trips; a map of the route would be a sidebar to the text.
Since then I learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubins_path as a way to find the path segments; combined with Douglas-Puecker that's probably what I'd use today.
sflanker 40 days ago [-]
Tangentially interesting: while leveraging Perplexity to try and find the blog post in question this post and your StackOverflow question already pollute the results it draws from and causes it to abort any more detailed search for such a blog post. I find this mildly amusing.
datadrivenangel 38 days ago [-]
Like when my googling solutions to a niche data integration interaction between two tools resulted in a first page result for one of my coworker's linkedin posts asking if anyone in her network knew the answer... The internet is shallow sometimes.
Also I love how the internet is "dead", yet here we are, on a website with a bunch of humans providing soooo much value that at least corners of the internet still seem very much alive.
I wish there were more sites like HN.
throwaway519 39 days ago [-]
haha, I just asked ChatGPT and it references this HN post.
I have been working, slowly, toward a way to do something like this, for years. My latest attempt (http://alanbernstein.net/galleries/2020-pecos/) is not professional or polished, but it does work. IIRC it is canvas rather than SVG, and the "animation" is driven by the photo slideshow.
Tangentially, I find that the bulk of the work is in compiling and prepping the assets, including multiple camera devices, incorrect timestamps, buggy rotation exif data, captions from multiple sources, GPS tracks from multiple sources...
Thanks for asking here, I'm looking forward to finding a better way to do it.
wonder_er 38 days ago [-]
This is a cool project!
I tried to do something similar using the Strava API. Never could get precise-enough lat and long to place them nicely on a map.
Might not be what you're looking for, but about 2 years back now I built a little tool that does something similar to this (not SVG) and no special coding/skills required
I remember Google had a really cool tool based on their maps that could animate journeys. It was pretty good but I haven't heard about it for years. I don't even remember the name. Probably killed anyway, knowing Google.
knowknowledge 38 days ago [-]
Here’s one from a few months ago “HOW I ADDED MAPS TO MY TRAVEL POSTS”
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jfkrrorj 38 days ago [-]
Heh, i just asked deepseek for fun. It gave me python script that takes photos, uses exif coordinates and OSM. 15 minutes
https://walkkumano.com/koyabound/
I thought this was so compelling that I ended up walking the trail myself. Incredible experience.
[1]https://tympanus.net/Development/StorytellingMap/
What great work :)
I agree - beautifully implemented, and great content too.
https://walkkumano.com/iseji/
EDIT: Any HN mods/devs reading this -- there seems to be a display bug for comment creation time? On edit it says 20hrs (accurate), whereas viewing the comments otherwise shows that it was posted an hour ago. Not sure what's going on
Some older users (I think YC alumni) can nominate articles and moderators give them a boost. The timestamp doesn't change, I've seen 2 day old articles appearing. It's a bit confusing, I think it was hacked in years ago but works good enough.
Surprised it still mostly works fine many years later
That's the one :) Thank you so much for finding it!
Odd.
I wouldn't recommend doing it my way, but for path animations they are likely animating the stroke length. Here is an example that might help, but use an animation tool if you can.
https://css-tricks.com/svg-line-animation-works/
One thing of note with stroke animations.. if you transition to/from negative numbers the animation breaks in Safari (negative numbers are out of spec aparently). There is a work around but I can't remember it at the moment, it results in the stroke animation playing in reverse though.
As mentioned above, if you can use a JS library, use one.
What sort of JS library would you recommend for a similar effect to this? PixiJs, D3, Paper, P5.js, good old vanilla canvas?
If you have access to creative tools like illustrator and after effects then perhaps Lottie.
There are other tools on my radar but I’ve never used them SVGGator
Also, funny how in the blog post it says the Github will come soon and now almost a decade later there is still no Github link :)
Since then I learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubins_path as a way to find the path segments; combined with Douglas-Puecker that's probably what I'd use today.
Also I love how the internet is "dead", yet here we are, on a website with a bunch of humans providing soooo much value that at least corners of the internet still seem very much alive.
I wish there were more sites like HN.
It's a small world.
I didn't write a tutorial but you can check the code here https://github.com/matallo/matall.in
Tangentially, I find that the bulk of the work is in compiling and prepping the assets, including multiple camera devices, incorrect timestamps, buggy rotation exif data, captions from multiple sources, GPS tracks from multiple sources...
Thanks for asking here, I'm looking forward to finding a better way to do it.
I tried to do something similar using the Strava API. Never could get precise-enough lat and long to place them nicely on a map.
Some of my wild amount of data is visible here:
https://joshs-mobility-data-54dab943ebba.herokuapp.com/?zoom...
I could only put the photos at like the very beginning of the route or randomly distribute them along the route.
I prob could/should do that. It would be vastly more information than I currently present on the map
Check out the sample story here: https://turas.app/s/japan-x-taiwan/BtEjycbA
As you scroll down past the days, it will show the map and places for each day (on desktop).
The front-end of this is a planning app for planning the itinerary and the "story" is one output of the planner.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42660255
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41532958
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