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Dev tools · March 10, 2023

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Shareable maps with data encoded in the URL

Hi HN, I built a tool to create minimalistic vector maps online, and generate a URL with the entire dataset as query params. The URLs generated are off-putting, but in turn you get private shareable maps. The code for the website is also open source and lives at https://github.com/ironmaps/mapinurl/ . Please let me know if you have any usecases I could solve for.

Shareable maps with data encoded in the URL launched on March 10, 2023 with 5 votes, #2,445 of 5,007 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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