🗺️ Landmark Icon Explorer — Release Notes (v1.0)

Release Date: April 14, 2025
Version: 1.0
Author: Mo Baraka @abumuailek

🎉 What's New

• Two-Panel Layout
• A split-screen interface:
  Left Panel: Manual landmark ID input with icon preview and PNG export.
  Right Panel: Accordion explorer categorized by Continent > Country > City > Landmark.

Global Landmark Dataset
Parsed from a curated text source covering:

• 6 continents
• 90+ countries
• 300+ cities
• Thousands of POIs (Points of Interest)

Live Icon Rendering

• Automatically fetches and stacks Google Maps-style icons (4 layers) to create a transparent PNG.

Friendly PNG Naming
Converts internal slugs like cairo_tower into human-readable download names like Cairo Tower.png.

Responsive Accordion UI:

• Expand and collapse regions to quickly navigate global landmarks.

🛠️ Technical Notes

• Landmark data was parsed, cleaned, and structured using Python.
• Icon generation uses client-side JavaScript with <canvas> layering.
• No backend or external hosting required — fully offline-capable.

📥 Files Included

• landmark_explorer_fixed.html: The fully working interface.
• landmark_tree_clean.json: The cleaned and structured landmark data (optional for debugging or reuse).

🚀 Next (Future) Milestones (Planned):
🌍 Add search & filter for landmarks
🖼️ Bulk icon export (.zip)
🧠 AI-based name correction for unknown POIs
🌒 Dark mode toggle