Tracking Stuart on his recreation of Thomas Stevens 1884 around the world bike ride: http://strudel.org.uk/RTWbike by receiving an SMS from Stuart and updating this map.
Stuart has an old phone and a GPS with him so I figured we should make a SMS service he can post his lat, long and an optional message to that would set his position on a map for all to see.
Pretty simple really:
- Sinatra application hooked up to Twilio that can receive an inbound SMS via the Twilio API.
- Parse the incoming SMS and make a position marker for the geojson
- Append this new marker to a (local) copy of the same geojson file that's in the Gist
- Commit the new file with the current location using Octokit