- Clone reposititory to local directory
- Open index.html in the root directory of repository
- Everything should work automatically, see additional notes below for ideas on usage or testing
- Reached by clicking the triple line link in upper left
- Conventional idiom for opening side navigation
- Returns results limited by bounds of map
- Recommended searches: piazza, fountain
- Search types included: place type, keyword, from list of places
- Searches keyword and place type searches limited to the bounds of the current map
- Sorted by promience, so zooming out will usually result in higher trafficed locations
- Each click will load only places with a rating of 4 stars or better
- Once a category is selected, the markers that load will also be added to the Places tab
- Mousing over a place on the tab will cause marker to change color
- Clicking a location on the Places tab will open its infoWindow and change the marker color
- Allows more transparent attributions
- A link was required by license for use of icons8's marker icon imagery
- Asynchoronous data is pulled from Google Maps and Wikipedia
- I'd planned to use panoramio also, but that's been folded into Google Maps
- I looked for /good/ sources of archeological or historical sites with an API, nothing trustworthy appeared. Open source projects were... not great and varied wildly in the quality of the data.