WWF Species Tracker

[caribou]

WWF sponsors a number of projects to track wildlife with satellite tags - this Processwire/Google Maps tool lets the public follow along in nearly real time. There are 6 different species and over 40 individual animals.

http://wwfgap.org/tracker/

This is the second iteration using Processwire - it was a delight to work with. Feedback welcome!

[Pete]

That's a really nice site - fantastic work.

My only comment as I'm typing this on a tablet with hi-res display is that the site is crisp in all areas except the map markers. I would suggest recreating them at twice the size and loading them at 50% size to counteract that.

Everything else is perfect

[apeisa]

Wow - amazing service. Spend quite a moment tracking animals. Very nice showcase also for ProcessWire's flexibility as a framework.

[caribou]

@Pete - Thanks very much! I forgot about retina until I'd created all the markers (argh), so that's the next thing on the to-do list.

@apeisa - Thanks! It's a lot of fun to work on, and PW's flexibility is a great help. I've done similar stuff with ExpressionEngine in the past, but this was far less hassle.

[Pete]

No worries.

Just for info if you do anther map-related project in future, I found that http://leafletjs.com/ is a very good map library that's much easier to use and configure than Google or Bing (to me at least). There are a lot of similarities but I find Google can get a bit tricky once you stray too far from the basic functionality. There are also a wide variety of other mapping providers you can use: http://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/index.html

Not a suggestion that you should switch, just worth mentioning since this is a topic related to mapping and it's saved me a tonne of time recently.

[adrian]

+1 for leaflet - it's very cool and lets you use your own map tiles too, if that's something you need. If you do ever want to go that route, take a look at mapnik for server-side generation of map tiles from SHP files.

[caribou]

Thanks for the Leaflet recommendation! Google Maps is an enormous pain sometimes, so I'm happy to try something new. Maybe for version 3.0!