מפת אתרים ואטרקציות בישראל — Attractions Map

An interactive map of family attractions in Israel, built from multiple sources. Browse every place on a map and filter by type (attractions, parks, viewpoints, springs, water trips, animals, visitor centers, camping, coffee carts, and more), by region, and by source.

Sources

• familytrips.co.il — בשביל המשפחה (family trips & attractions)
• coffeetrail.co.il — Coffee Trail (coffee-cart directory)

Places that appear in more than one source are merged into a single marker that links back to every source.

Using the map

The map data is baked into a JavaScript file, so you can just open it:

open index.html        # macOS — double-clicking also works

If your browser blocks the local data file, serve the folder instead:

python3 -m http.server 8777
# then visit http://localhost:8777/index.html

Features: marker clustering, color-coded markers by region, type checkboxes with counts, region pills, free-text search (name / keyword), and popups that link back to the original article.

Architecture

Each source has its own scraper that writes records in a shared schema to data/raw/<source>.json. A single build.py then merges every source, de-dups co-located places, and writes the final dataset the map reads.

scrape/*.py  (familytrips: scrape + geocode)  ─┐
sources/coffeetrail.py                         ─┤→ data/raw/*.json → build.py → data/attractions.js
                                                ┘                                       ↑ index.html

Shared record schema (data/raw/*.json): source, title, lat, lng, region|null, types[], keywords[], image, url, address|null, description|null

Rebuild

# familytrips (needs geocoding — see notes):
python3 scrape/1_collect_urls.py
python3 scrape/2_scrape_posts.py
python3 scrape/3_geocode.py          # -> data/raw/familytrips.json

# coffeetrail (coordinates already in the pages):
python3 sources/coffeetrail.py       # -> data/raw/coffeetrail.json

# merge + de-dup -> data/attractions.json + data/attractions.js
python3 build.py

Adding another source

Write a sources/<name>.py that emits data/raw/<name>.json in the shared schema (set lat/lng if you have them, otherwise leave the place name for geocoding), add a label to SOURCE_LABELS in build.py, and re-run build.py. The map picks up the new source filter automatically.

Notes

• familytrips pages carry no coordinates (each embeds a Google map keyed by the place name), so 3_geocode.py geocodes names via the free Nominatim service (no API key) at ~1 req/sec — ~25–35 min, resumable via data/geocode_cache.json. It tries several query variants (HTML-unescaped, trimmed at the first dash, leading descriptors like "גן לאומי" stripped, Plus-Code locality) and keeps the first hit inside Israel. A minority of obscure spots can't be resolved and are dropped.
• coffeetrail listings expose exact coordinates + address in a LocalBusiness schema, so no geocoding is needed.
• De-dup (build.py) only merges across different sources, and requires both proximity and a fuzzy name match — so distinct attractions that geocode to the same town centroid, and different branches of the same coffee brand, stay separate.
• Region uses each source's own tags when present, otherwise latitude bands (with a Jerusalem bounding box).