Show HN: GeoCards – An interactive wiki map built with MapLibre and OpenFreeMap
labs.tripgeo.comGeoCards is a clean, interactive map (built with MapLibre and OpenFreeMap) where you can click on literally any text label - cities, parks, roads - and it pulls the relevant Wikipedia summary and photos into the sidebar. It’s great for 'armchair traveling' or just learning about the history of the places you're browsing. I built GeoCards to make geographic discovery more fluid. The Tech Stack: MapLibre GL: For the vector map rendering. OpenFreeMap: I’m using their 'Liberty' style for the tiles. Wikipedia REST API: To pull the page summaries and thumbnails. Photon (Komoot): For the geocoding/search functionality. The Challenge: One of the trickier parts was ensuring that clicking a label actually registered the correct entity. I’ve implemented a fallback to a Wikipedia GeoSearch (radius-based) if the specific label name doesn’t have a direct "Summary" page match.