Gravity Expeditions at Sea

Application presenting the expeditions of Dutch geophysicist and geodesist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (1887-1966). Originally published in 2014 as part of Expeditie Wikipedia.

Links:

• Stichting Academisch Erfgoed
• Wikipedia

Todo

• Create Protomaps version of bathymetric chart:
  • https://github.com/shiwaku/gebco-2025-grid-tile-on-maplibre/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file
  • https://www.gebco.net/data-products/gridded-bathymetry-data
  • https://www.gebco.net/data-products/gebco-web-services/web-map-service
• Add maps to IIIF server, georeference and add to chapters
• Trace sources for images, add full documents to academic heritage website, and link to them
• Add support for more configurations (based on this format)
• Add mode to interact with map
• Add credits
• Improve styling
• Add progress bar
• Add menu

Inspired by

• Reuzenarbeid
• City Atlas
• Interactive Storytelling with MapLibre

Developing

This app uses SvelteKit as application framework.

Install dependencies with npm install (or pnpm install or yarn), start a development server:

npm run dev

# or start the server and open the app in a new browser tab
npm run dev -- --open

Building

To create a production version of your app:

npm run build

You can preview the production build with npm run preview.

To deploy your app, you may need to install an adapter for your target environment.