The Antarctic Mapping Challenge

Barney Swan, Martin Barnett together with Kyle O’Donoghue are currently task a grueling 600-mile, 60-day trek to the South Pole. You tin follow their progress on an interactive map. The South Pole Energy Challenge map shows the progress made thus far together with also features video updates together with photos taken on this epic 600-mile journey.

The interactive map of the trek features aerial imagery of Antarctica, the locations of Scott's hut & a publish of geographical features such equally the H2O ice shelves. Two pocket-size buttons on the map allow you lot to access biographical information virtually Barney Swann together with his manly soul nurture Robert Swann. The large xanthous map marking shows you lot the electrical current put of the iii remaining explorers.

Looking at the source-code for the map it appears that the mapping companionship ZeroSixZero has created their ain polar projection map of Antarctica using map information from a publish of dissimilar sources (credited on the map). This polar projection has thus been imported into Leaflet.js using the Proj4Leaflet plugin for map projections non natively supported past times Leaflet.

If you lot desire to map the other halt of the populace thus you lot tin e'er purpose the Arctic Web Map, an Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server.