A People Map of Japan

A Japanese version of A People Map of the US; This is not my idea, all credit goes to the awesome team at The Pudding!

• https://github.com/the-pudding/people-map
• https://github.com/the-pudding/people-map-uk

Built with MapLibre GL JS and SvelteKit.

See this presentation for details (in Japanese); MapLibre, Svelte, Wikipediaデータを用いた地理空間情報可視化の事例 / MIERUNE Meetup mini #01 - Speaker Deck

Data Sources

• DBpedia Japanese
  • To retrieve list of pages, and their "from X" information
• Wikipedia Japanese (via Wikipedia API)
  • To retrive the page views, and the page title and extract text
• MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) of Japan
  • To calculate the coordinates of municipalities
  • 国土交通省「位置参照情報」 （2021年12月1日取得）をもとに作成
  • => preparation/data/pref_munic_coords.json
• OpenStreetMap Japan
  • Vector tiles: https://tile.openstreetmap.jp/
• Material Icons by Google

Diretories

• preparation/
  • Data preparation code
  • $ poetry install
  • $ poetry run jupyter notebook
  • => All code (notebooks) under preparation/code/
• app/
  • A SvelteKit app
  • $ npm install
  • $ npm run serve
  • $ npm run build