I am a huge fan of your bulletins! If you’re interested we can make them even integrate even better (e.g. the reading list, or if some countries are not showing).

Thank you for doing the bulletin posts!

Yeah.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. It won’t be implemented.

Moon of Alabama has always been trash; people just couldn’t see it up until relatively recently.

click on a place, and stuff related to it will pop up on the sidebar. If you want to know about the West Bank from an anarchist perspective, click on the west bank, click on “Nexus”, then click on “anarchist library”.

Thank you @[email protected]!

To elaborate some more: You can either search for a place or click on it. You’ll see various scopes: provinces/territories, countries, intermediate regions, sub regions, continent. You can click also on these to change the scope. What it actually does is send it as a search query into lemmy and you see the search results to it (I built a fancy search page). IN the Fediverse Tab you can select the instances, sort types, and other settings from lemmy. On the Nexus Tab you have a similar behaviour, just for the various modules. You’ll see the wiki of whatevery is selected on the map :)

tldr: Attention [Pink]: Select an option [Purple] to reveal selected information [Yellow].

I didn’t know GIS development is a thing and I will have to look a lot more into it. Looks like I’ve been reinventing the wheel. It’s the first time I worked with maps and was just screwing around 😅

I personally dont like the overview map, i dont think thats really needed and if, than maybe smaller and without any labels

Do you mean the minimap in the corner or the entire map?

positron from CartoDB

I gave it a quick look and I probably should’ve used this from the get go. I will see how I can use this in this project (It’s written in react-ts)

Zoom level about 7-1, maybe just make them clickable but invisible at this zoom

Thank you I will try to solve this!

Would use Esri standard or openstreetmaps or Positron with labels, it is less overwhelming.

It was a purely aestehtic choice (like that cloud layer that disappears when you zoom in) lol I updated the default to be OpenStreetMap

And a Idea that I think is really cool would be a point layer with pins of places that someone recently wrote something about on hexbear or lemygrad, maybe the last 24h. That way we would see at the first sight where is something big going on.

I have an Issue open for “Active Regions”. I actually want the map to also auto focus on there and to be able to see a weighting of the entire map based on the amount of comments/posts. I’m not sure on how to achieve this, but could be if I receive amount of search results back from the lemmy-client-js api. e.g. Gaza Strip - x amount of comments and compare it with other regions

Hope that what I wrote was helpful. Thank u for ur great work.

Thank you it is! :)

When I graduated, GIS wasn’t as mainstream. Couldn’t find a job in the field and gave up. Years later, its fucking everywhere.

I don’t know, they have some dicey takes like having a section titled “Contemporary Capitalist Imperialist China” which seems very ultra and their presentation gives me Moon of Alabama vibes of old boomers. I can’t speak any more than that so feel free to correct me or add on.

I gave it a quick and dirty integration in Nexus > Misc (Link it externally)

Unfortunately to have deeper integration I’d need to be able to get a json response (or do an iFrame, which I would like to avoid). It’s a similar problem I was facing when looking for ways to integrate marxist.org. They use a google search plugin :(

Also it seems like there aren’t that many pages in the format: http://bannedthought.net/{country}/index.htm and you often land on a 404 page :/

It’s Maoist, but eh, put it in there.

Atlas related names are cool

Afaik its also technically acceptable to make source availability contingent on having an account or filling out a form, it doesn’t have to be trivially accessible.

i’m hosting a mirror here that i’ll be using to manage my contributions to the project. i can’t promise much in the way of stability at the moment, but i’ll get there eventually.

Right now I only managed to add IMF data as a proof of concept (There’s a bunch of indicators to choose from). There’s a lot more datasets that I would like to be able to see on there and the ability to compare countries/regions. Ideally we could visualize capital and commodity flows between two selections

Hi comrade,

I added a bunch of open data in the Nexus > Misc tab for you. Hope you find some of it useful. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to see more :)

World Inequality Database

UN Comtrade

International Labour Organization

International Energy Agency

World Bank

OECD

When I’ll have more time I’ll look for deeper integration

How does a post/comment get associated with a region? Is it a text based analysis of the post that picks out keywords?

When you click on a region, and depending on the regionscope (country, province, contintent, etc.) the string is passed to the lemmy-client-js search function (e.g. west asia, egypt, california). The posts/comments that pop up are just the search results on the string. At the very bottom of the lemmy integration you find the link to the search page and how the query works. I’m afraid it’s just a fancy search page that is leveraging all fields you see here https://hexbear.net/search :)

Another thought, would it be feasible to show a timeline view to show which regions are “hot” at the moment and over time? I imagine in 2022 that Ukraine would light up (no pun intended), and in 2024 so would Gaza. That would be kind of cool to see.

That’s a great Idea! Not sure how to be able to implement it. Lemmy-client-js would probably need to be able to take fromDate and toDate as a parameter on the search function if I understand your idea correctly.