Mapbox + Turf on Rails

This app was originally based off Rui Freitas' Mapbox Clusters. Thanks Rui for all the Model => GeoJSON goodness.

About This Project

Mapbox API is a great mapping & location tool to develop with. However, plotting a geospatial accurate radius can be challenging and require quite a bit of tile & zoom modificaitons to get it to work. Turf.js is a geospatial tool that makes it easy to calculate GeoJSON polygons. Intergrating Turf.js into a Mapbox API on Rails was something that I hadn't been able to find, so I built my own solution.

What this App does

Mapbox + Turf on Rails allows a user to create an office location, geocode the address (using GeoKit), save the record, pass the GeoJSON dataset to Mapbox.js to populate on the Map div. I also utilize Geokit's within_radius method to pass multiple offices that fall within a certain radius param.

Some Must-Haves or Good-to-Knows

This app does make a few assumptions. Have these guys handy to help deploy:

• Mapbox API Key
• Any other Geocode API key if you want to use Geokit with another provider
• ENV variables defined somewhere. I use DotENV for this
• CSS Framework is Skeleton CSS, a dead simple boilerplate you can easily remove if you wish.

Get Started

1. Git clone this badboy
2. Yarn install
3. Bundle install
4. Add ENV Details (There is a default.env you can use to create your .env file)
5. rake db commands (create, migrate & seed)
6. Rails s

Any questions or help, hit me up on Twitter @somethingkillr or mpope@somethingkiller.com