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v1.0.2 — Interactive map with accurate rail line routing

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@jamditis jamditis released this 12 Feb 22:14
· 221 commits to main since this release

What's new

Map overhaul

The interactive map now shows accurate rail line routing with colored polylines connecting all stations and terminals.

Routing fixes:

  • Montclair-Boonton and Morris & Essex lines connect through Newark Broad Street to Hoboken Terminal (their cutover terminal)
  • Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines connect through Secaucus to Penn Station New York
  • North Jersey Coast Line properly joins NEC shared track at Rahway
  • Raritan Valley Line connects to Newark Penn Station (its cutover terminal)
  • Morris & Essex Gladstone Branch renders as a separate fork converging at Summit

Visual improvements:

  • Switched from default OpenStreetMap tiles to CartoDB Positron — a muted gray basemap that lets the transit lines pop
  • Added colored polylines connecting stations along each rail route
  • 10 new station markers for better coverage

Navigation

  • Added Map link to the nav bar on all pages (was previously unreachable)

Technical

Route polylines are now defined separately from station markers, allowing accurate rendering of branching lines (M&E Gladstone) and shared track (NJCL/NEC from Rahway north). Still zero-build, zero-dependency (except Leaflet.js CDN for the map page).

Full changelog: v1.0.1...v1.0.2