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Course materials for Research Software Engineering course.
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Greenmap example broken again #182

Closed ageorgou closed 1 month ago

ageorgou commented 4 years ago

The "greenmap" example from the first lesson does not run. It used to use Google Maps, but they disabled access without a key. We switched to Yandex for last year, but now that's done the same. From memory, all the options either needed a key (which we didn't want to make public, and sometimes also required a card to charge to) or had to be self-hosted.

If we can't find a geocoding/map API that does not require a key, we'll have to use a different example. The main points that the current example is showcasing (without explaining) are

A replacement doesn't need to be similar but should probably hit the same spots.

dpshelio commented 4 years ago

We could use cartopy and measure green from the data provided there... but that then it doesn't includes the querying the website bit, unless we find a cities/location api.

Saransh-cpp commented 1 month ago

This was fixed in the PR linked above but the issue was never closed.