This is the first installment of a three-part series about Mapbox tools for logistics. Learn about what isochrones are and how to use them. Follow along with a hypothetical local business delivering their goods during shelter-at-home. The first thing they need to do is define their service are and know whether an address is inside it or not. In this live-coding session, we’ll retrieve an isochrone around the business, visualize it on the map, and then use it to check whether it contains an address location.
You’ll learn how to...
1. If you're coding along, here are John’s gists for ‘before’ and ‘after’.
2. Here’s a live demo using that code – go ahead and make your own!
3. Documentation for the Mapbox Isochrone API.
4. Check out our Isochrone API Playground.
5. Learn how to add a geocoder (search box) to your app.
6. Someone asked for an "isochrone-on-click" example.
7. Blog posts on Isochrones: It's about time | Building with Isochrones