TownTour

A decoupled multi-tenant tourism platform combining a public marketing website (towntour.uk), a high-performance hardware-accelerated walking tour Progressive Web App, and a Headless CMS publishing static RFC 7946 GeoJSON directly to the global edge.

Visitor Experience & Frontend Innovations

The visitor-facing PWA is engineered for effortless field navigation in real-world conditions — from dense historic town centres to cellular dead zones.

• Hardware-Accelerated Dual Map Engines:

  The primary map utilizes MapLibre GL JS with OpenFreeMap vector styles, featuring GPU camera pitch and bearing rotation (setBearing) that keeps street labels and POI names dynamically upright during movement. Automatically falls back to a lightweight Leaflet raster tile engine when WebGL is unavailable or disabled.

• Live Proximity Sorting & Compass Cone:

  Real-time Haversine distance calculations let visitors toggle between 📍 Nearest (ordering attractions closest-first based on device geolocation) and alphabetical A–Z ordering. Directional SVG markers feature a live compass field-of-view cone driven by the device orientation sensor API.

• GPS Record & Replay Simulation Engine:

  A built-in development and QA simulation suite allows tour curators and developers to replay recorded walking routes at variable speeds (1x to 10x). Simulates realistic GPS coordinates, automatic map panning, proximity arrivals, and route boundary alerts from the comfort of a desk.

• Tenant-Scoped Cache & Offline PWA:

  The PWA service worker precaches all town GeoJSON payloads, imagery, and vector tile style descriptors into isolated tenant caches. Visitors can walk complete heritage trails offline without losing map functionality or media guides.

• Telemetry with Google Consent Mode v2:

  Granular, privacy-first analytics capture POI arrivals, tour starts, and audio guide engagement tagged with tenant-specific dimensions, supported by GDPR/PECR compliance dialogs and offline event queueing.

Zero-Database Edge Architecture

Traditional tourism sites struggle under peak event traffic or require costly server hosting. TownTour eliminates server bottlenecking entirely through a decoupled content delivery pipeline:

Because public visitors never execute PHP or query MariaDB, the client application can handle millions of requests with instant response times, zero database licensing costs, and complete protection against CMS exploitation.