This is a fork of AlphaMapper's frontend, with fixes that are necessary after the deprecation of v2 of Google's Maps API. AlphaMapper is a project by ImaBot that maps the internet's oldest and largest virtual world: AlphaWorld.
A demo of this frontend can be found on my website. The official AlphaMapper can be found here.
- Uses Leaflet.js instead of Google Maps API
- The original frontend was broken by Google deprecating an older version of the Maps API. Leaflet.js has a subjectively friendlier API, and Google Maps is non-free.
- The map now has two extra zoom levels; Leaflet.js creates these by scaling up images from previous zoom levels.
- Different UI
- The coordinate box now spans across the top, and doubles as the display for the currently centered coordinates. Input is also validated.
- This frontend has been optimized and tested for mobile use.
- Dynamic URL
- Panning and zooming the map now automatically updates the URL, so it can be copied or bookmarked for future reference.
- The frontend code was originally by ImaBot and Byte, as found on ImaBot.com
- I am very grateful to Ima Genius for giving me permission to upload this fork to GitHub, and allowing me to do so under the MIT license.