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I Added SVG Maps to My Travel Posts

Quick overview of a new blog feature.

I enjoy doing this a) because it's a nice memento of how I approached and solved a problem I set for myself, and b) I hate to horde knowledge and on the off chance someone wants to add svg maps to their personal website, maybe this will help them navigate the process. Even though I know with certainty that those maps would be well cached and load effectively, I didn't want this feature to be tied to a 3rd party that could: raise prices, deprecate the product, change the API, or degrade for any reason outside of my own control. My first implementation just included raw lat/ lon tags in my page front matter, but I quickly discarded this as I didn't want to have to copy/paste the same values each time I wrote a new blog in a location I had already defined.

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