Call of the Wild II Open source tech for a dog sled race in the Yukon
summary
Over 15 years the project evolves from manual copy paste of SPOT lat/longs every 10 minutes for 30 hours to a fully automated tracker that pushes automated updates every 3 minutes into a database, serves Leaflet front end with GeoJSON and mobile-friendly maps, and moves from MySQL to migrated MySQL to PostGIS to enable snapping GPS points to the trail, linear distance-to-checkpoint, geofencing triggers and on-the-fly trail edits while experimenting with vector tiles, S3-hosted geojson and porting PHP to Python.
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