cheeaun/steepless

An app to find the flattest routes and avoid the hilliest routes

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Cool, I used to build this https://github.com/cheeaun/steepless (2014)

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Oct 5, 2026

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Steepless

Steepless is a web app to find the flattest routes and avoid the hilliest routes.

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September 2014

I visited and stayed in San Francisco for 4 months, and the very first thing I realised that I need is a tool to navigate around the steep hills there. I wanted to build an app for that. I came back to Singapore and finally find the time to build it. And I call it Steepless.

This app also gives me a chance to try out the React library, which I find very interesting.

While building Steepless, I've done a bunch of research and found there are similar attempts by other developers:

Steepless is yet another attempt.

January 2022

It was my first attempt at building a React.JS app.

3 years later, Google "copied" it, which is apparently a killer new feature.

8 years later, I decided to revive this project.

Design

The design is initially inspired by a Google Maps demo for elevation in San Francisco (link borked, I couldn't find another or updated link). The rest of the UI is partially inspired by Google's Material Design.

The SVG icon sprite is generated with Fontastic.

Development

Requires Node.js.

  • npm install to install the dependencies.
  • npm start to start the server.

License

MIT

cheeaun/steepless

An app to find the flattest routes and avoid the hilliest routes

JavaScript

67

38 commits

updated May 16, 2022

See the code

See what people are saying

SourceMessageScoreDate

Cool, I used to build this https://github.com/cheeaun/steepless (2014)

on Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

0

Oct 5, 2026

README

Steepless

Steepless is a web app to find the flattest routes and avoid the hilliest routes.

Screenshots

Story time

September 2014

I visited and stayed in San Francisco for 4 months, and the very first thing I realised that I need is a tool to navigate around the steep hills there. I wanted to build an app for that. I came back to Singapore and finally find the time to build it. And I call it Steepless.

This app also gives me a chance to try out the React library, which I find very interesting.

While building Steepless, I've done a bunch of research and found there are similar attempts by other developers:

Steepless is yet another attempt.

January 2022

It was my first attempt at building a React.JS app.

3 years later, Google "copied" it, which is apparently a killer new feature.

8 years later, I decided to revive this project.

Design

The design is initially inspired by a Google Maps demo for elevation in San Francisco (link borked, I couldn't find another or updated link). The rest of the UI is partially inspired by Google's Material Design.

The SVG icon sprite is generated with Fontastic.

Development

Requires Node.js.

  • npm install to install the dependencies.
  • npm start to start the server.

License

MIT