lunamap

A phone-friendly map of Tasmania for finding, describing and sharing a location quickly: tap the map (or type an address, grid reference, street atlas square or coordinates) and get the location in every format you might need to read out or paste, plus the property, map references, elevation and fire context. Started for a volunteer fire brigade in Fern Tree, useful anywhere in Tasmania.

Live: https://mdsumner.github.io/lunamap/ - Help: https://mdsumner.github.io/lunamap/help.html

It is a static site (plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, no build step) on GitHub Pages. All map data is read live from public services, mainly theLIST (Land Tasmania).

Community-made and unofficial. Not a Tasmania Fire Service or State of Tasmania product. Data can be incomplete or out of date; warnings are a copy of TasALERT and can lag - always check alert.tas.gov.au in an emergency.

Features

• Pin panel: tap anywhere for address, lon/lat (both orders), MGA94 and MGA2020, 6-figure grid reference, street atlas and map book squares, elevation, DMS; copy any row, copy all, or share a link that reopens the same view.
• Go to: addresses (forgiving: 12 pillinger), grid references, street atlas (SA-188-B6), map book (MB356 C4), lon/lat in either order, MGA eastings/northings, DMS and degrees-minutes.
• Basemaps: theLIST Topographic, Emergency Services 1:50k map book, TASMAP raster, aerial photo, hillshade, grey topographic. MGA grid overlay labelled at the screen edge like a printed map.
• Layers: parcels with house numbers and addresses; TasWater hydrants, dams, reservoirs, pump stations; gates and barriers; fire, ambulance, police and SES stations, emergency meeting points, evacuation centres; BOM fire danger ratings; TasALERT warnings; fire history.
• Route: from the nearest main-road junction to the pin over theLIST road network (including vehicular tracks), with radio-style directions; step out to bigger roads; hand off to Google Maps. Nearest fire station by road.
• Draw: points, lines and polygons with labels, length and area; elevation profiles along lines; export/import GeoJSON, KML and GPX; send a sketch in a link.
• Weather: opens the BOM forecast for the nearest place.
• Offline: save map tiles for an area; the map, GPS dot, grid and coordinates keep working without signal, and with the saved road pack so do Route and nearest fire station. Installable to the home screen.

Files

Path	What
index.html	the map page
help.html	user help
app.css	styles
js/core.js	basemaps, projections, URL state, pin panel, GPS, print
js/search.js	go-to parser, address search
js/grid.js	MGA grid with edge labels
js/layers.js	parcels, point overlays (water, gates, stations), street atlas / map book
js/route.js	routing on theLIST roads, Google and BOM hand-offs
js/hazards.js	fire danger, TasALERT warnings, fire history
js/extras.js	elevation and nearest fire station rows
js/roadpack.js	roads and fire stations saved with an offline area, so routing works without signal
js/app.js	toolbar menus, offline saving, start-up
js/draw.js	drawing, export/import, sketch links (loaded on demand)
js/profile.js	elevation sampling from the 2 m DEM (loaded on demand)
sw.js	service worker: offline page, tiles and recent data
data/osm-places-tas.json	OpenStreetMap places for BOM links (harvested monthly by .github/workflows/osm-places.yml)

The scripts are classic <script> files sharing globals, loaded in the order in index.html. Libraries come from jsDelivr: Leaflet 1.9.4, proj4js 2.12.1, and on demand Leaflet-Geoman 2.20.2, geotiff.js 3.0.5 and @tmcw/togeojson 7.1.2.

Running locally

Any static web server from the repo root, for example:

python3 -m http.server 8000

then open http://localhost:8000/. Opening index.html as a file mostly works, but the service worker (offline maps) needs http://localhost or https.

Data sources and licences

Data	Source	Licence
Basemaps, cadastre, addresses, roads, gates, map book / street atlas grids	theLIST, State of Tasmania	CC BY 3.0 AU (aerial photo and TASMAP: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 AU); LIST Web Services terms
Water assets	TasWater, Tasmanian Irrigation via theLIST	as published on theLIST
Stations, meeting points, evacuation centres, fire danger, TasALERT, fire history	theLIST EmergencyManagementPublic (replicated from TFS, BOM, TasALERT and agencies)	as published on theLIST
Elevation	Tasmania 2 m DEM, Mineral Resources Tasmania / theLIST, via Source Cooperative	CC BY 3.0 AU
Place list for BOM links	OpenStreetMap contributors	ODbL 1.0

No data is copied from BOM; the weather button only links to bom.gov.au.

Licence

Code: MIT (see LICENSE). Map data and other content keep their own licences (above).

listmap-print1990700725757339362.pdf is a LISTmap print kept as an example of its georeferenced-PDF output (GDAL cannot derive a geotransform from it: the LPTS are transposed relative to GPTS).

Licence

Code: MIT (see LICENSE). Map and other data keep their own licences (above). listmap-print1990700725757339362.pdf is a sample LISTmap print kept as an example of its non-standard geospatial PDF output.

Notes for maintainers

• The URL hash holds the state: #zoom/lat/lon/basemap,flags[/pinlat/pinlon], and ?s= carries a shared sketch.
• The service worker serves the page network-first, so changes show on the next load with signal; cached tiles are kept separately in lunamap-tiles-v1.
• Keep source files ASCII (use \u00b0 escapes and HTML entities).