Create interactive maps with one line of JavaScript
Create interactive maps with one line of JavaScript launched on January 30, 2018 with 10 votes, #1,061 of 3,021 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
Mapkick is a Ruby gem that lets developers embed interactive maps into web applications with minimal code. It uses Mapbox GL JS as its mapping engine and supports multiple JavaScript bundlers including Webpack, esbuild, and Rollup. The tool requires a Mapbox account and access token, then allows users to display pins and area maps by passing simple coordinate data to helper functions.
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From the sources
Mapkick uses Mapbox GL JS v1 . To use tiles from Mapbox, create a Mapbox account to get an access token and set ENV["MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN"] in your environment. To set options for all of your maps, create an initializer config/initializers/mapkick.rb with: Everyone is encouraged to help improve this project. Here are a few ways you canfrom chartkick.com
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