Saturday, August 10, 2013

Dynamically creating hexagons from real-word data (Part 2 - Railroads and Forests)

Part 1 - Roads
Part 2 - Railroads and Forests
Part 3 - Data-Services

In this post I'm going to add two new concepts to the hexagon representation: railroads and forests. Also, instead of having the data hardcoded, I'm going to load it from GeoJSON files. Eventually I'll change this behavior to have the data being served by a service, but for now static files will do.

Let me use another image of the wargame Memoir'44 as an example of what I'm trying to achieve, which includes railroads and forests.


Obviously I'm not targeting (for now) this degree of presentation. I just want to detect the underlying objects and represent them differently.