Byway map
All 32 Florida scenic byways render as color-coded corridors from a curated GeoJSON dataset.
Travel app
Vue 3
PWA
Florida
Straypath
Florida’s scenic byways and hidden stops, in one map. Discover corridors, find parks and trailheads, build an itinerary, and hand it off to navigation.
01 · Why it exists
The interesting roads were scattered across separate tools.
Florida has 32 officially designated scenic byways. Most people find them through static pages, PDFs, or agency maps that do not help much when planning a real day trip.
Three smaller tools came first: a byway map, a park finder, and an itinerary builder. Straypath combines those ideas into one field-ready planning surface.
Core behavior
Find the route, then build the day around it.
POI discovery
Parks, trailheads, campgrounds, and natural areas load near a searched place or current location.
Itinerary builder
Add stops from the map, drag to reorder, sort nearby, write field notes, and hand the trip to Google or Apple Maps.
02 · Who it helps
A planning map for Florida road trips.
| If you are | Straypath helps you |
|---|---|
| Planning a Florida road trip | See scenic corridors, find stops nearby, and hand the final route to navigation. |
| A Florida resident | Discover designated roads you may have driven past without recognizing them. |
| A nature photographer | Locate trailheads and natural areas near a byway for early light or quick scouting. |
| A weekend day-tripper | Build a short loop, sort it by proximity, and share it before leaving. |
| Traveling with a dog | Find accessible outdoor stops near where you are staying. |
03 · Implementation
Map data, places data, and URL-based sharing.
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Framework | Vue 3 Composition API |
| Map | Leaflet with CartoDB Voyager tiles |
| Places | Google Places API through a server-side proxy |
| Byway data | GeoJSON sourced from FDOT / FHWA |
| Sharing | lz-string compressed route data in the URL |
| Offline support | PWA service worker for app shell and byway data |
04 · Privacy
No route database.
Local itinerary
Stops live in browser state. Shared trips are encoded in the URL instead of saved to a server.
Cached lookups
Approximate IP location and nearby POI results are cached locally to reduce repeat API calls.
Proxy boundary
Places search passes through a server-side proxy for API-key protection, but route data is not stored there.
Go somewhere worth going.
Open Straypath before your next Florida trip, or install it to your home screen for field use.