Antichess
Through a client-side leaflet request, I've been able to get hit maps back. For some small towns and obscure postal cities it sometimes isn't the greatest, but still works well.
This only works on a browser with extensions enabled. Theoretically it could work on mobile but I'm not too sure about it.
How to install:
- Get Tampermonkey, a script extension. Install this extension to allow your browser to run scripts on your behalf. This extension allows for dynamically changing HTML content based off of the script.
- Get my script. Link is here.
- Install the script. Open Tampermonkey, and then paste the script as a new script. Simply paste the script in.
- Find a hit page! Whenever you view a note with a hit, the map automatically loads, however it takes about 1-2 seconds on average. It works for about 95% of cases I've seen. It may also make mistakes when there are multiple places named the same thing within a province. I may periodically update the script; just ask for it.
Here is an example of a hit map page. The locations are not accurate as it's not possible to get the FSAs of the locations without the utils search on the website; doing that for every hit map would be overkill.
Please let me know if anyone has successfully installed this, or is using it.
I've just proved that hit maps are incredibly easy to bring back. Previously DR was using Google Maps Cloud and Developer API to display maps, which are $$$; I don't blame him for disabling the hit maps for that reason. Leaflet/OSM requests are almost free and unless you're a bot, you will never get denied requests to it. It's that easy, and doing this server-side would be even easier but oh well, that's only if one of us could actually touch the code of the website.