My Surf Map
As a map guy I’ve been keeping my own personal surf spot map for several years now. So why not share it?
It includes all the spots that I’ve surfed myself on various trips/stints: The Space Coast (FL), Oahu, Bali, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Cabo, California, and the Outer Banks.
Technical Notes
To create and style the background map, I used Mapbox Studio and tweaked the theme North Star. Mapbox has a ton of awesome themes to start from that look incredible.
I had the location data in Google Earth originally, ported over to Google MyMaps a few years ago. MyMaps has an export KML option built in. I converted the KML to GeoJSON using ogr2ogr.
With the background map and location points figured out, it was a matter of creating a basic javascript map using Mapbox GL. That’s it!