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https://ocellus.info
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now serving maps #57

Open punkish opened 1 month ago

punkish commented 1 month ago

If you go to ocellus.info and turn on the advanced search toggle, you will see the treatments distribution (for the ones that have geolocation) on a map of the world.

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The ones with keen eyes will notice that the map is different. For one, it has more clear country outlines. For example, here is a zoomed in view of Colombia

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I am very happy to announce my new production that I call Geodeo (rhymes with Zenodeo). It is a map server I built over the past few days. It uses a publicly available outline of the countries that I sliced up in tiles and converted to a database in the highly compact protobuf format. The tiles are served via a 22 line program that I wrote using a new JS runtime. Super simple and very fast. But, only time will tell if it stand its test. So, please use it, and as usual, report any errors.

Note: This is not a hard-core production-level map server. That can only be set up by orgs with resources to run Zenodo and such. Nevertheless, I hope, in the spirit of Unix-tools -- do one thing, do it well, with minimal resources -- that Geodeo will serve the modest needs of Ocellus rather well.

Many thanks.

cc: @tcatapano @myrmoteras @flsimoes @Carol-Sokolowicz @gsautter @jugiora @juwingert @slint @lnielsen

flsimoes commented 1 month ago

We'll test it out, looks promising!