jws.dev changelog
Travel maps shade countries instead of pinning them
The maps now fill in the countries, continents and American states I have visited, traced from Natural Earth boundaries, rather than dropping a pin in the middle of each.
A pin in the middle of a country says where its centre is, which is not the same as saying I have been there. The maps across the travel section now shade the place itself: countries, continents, and the American states, traced from Natural Earth’s boundary data and simplified so the outlines cost a fraction of what the full data would.
England, Scotland and Northern Ireland are shaded separately, since I have been to one of them and not the others. Each shaded shape is a real target — it takes keyboard focus, announces where it goes, and opens with Enter or Space. The offline maps, the ones drawn as plain images for when the map tiles cannot load, are shaded to match.
Vatican City is still a pin. At this scale it is about a fifth of a pixel across.