2026 Eclipse Webcams
- ID
- 13538
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 12 Aug 2026, 7:53 PM
- Fetched
- 14 Aug 2026, 5:17 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 14 Aug 2026, 5:19 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coders
What happened
A community-built page maps publicly accessible webcams along the path of the 2026 total solar eclipse using OpenStreetMap tiles and Leaflet 1.9.4 markers. The article text itself contains no prose — only map tile and marker image references — so details about which webcams are listed or how they were sourced are not available from the text.
Why it matters
There is no actionable technical or business takeaway in the provided text. Builders interested in geospatial side projects could note the pattern of combining OSM tiles with Leaflet markers for lightweight map mashups, but the article does not explain implementation details.
Discussion angle
How cheap it now is to ship a useful interactive map using only OSM tiles and Leaflet — and whether there are Malaysian-specific event-cam or tourism-cam mashup opportunities worth building on the same stack.