Hey, just wanted to let you know that the project is not dead and I've actually made some (buggy) updates last month but wanted to post about it when I fix them (I would like to show the 4 instruments of state power by utilizing overpass-api, but the app crashes if there's too many data points).

I didn't have too much time IRL to continue as big leaps as in the beginning and some of the features I would like to see I have no clue on how to implement so I kinda go slow.

Rest assured, it's a project I very much enjoy working on and continue to lurk here. I also owe @Sebrof@hexbear.net an answer in the DM which is 7 months overdue. Sorry comrade 😬

I made some updates to the HexAtlas since I last posted:

• Search: Nominatim Integration allows to search any place
• Mobile UX: It's should be now easier to navigate on mobile
• Mastodon: See posts (WIP)
• Sessionstorage: Settings/Selections are now saved even when you refresh the browser window (until you close the tab)
• Had to remove leftypedia.. I couldn't figure out why it was only working locally..

https://hex-atlas.netlify.app CW: Spoilertags are still not functioning

Hmm.. I'm mostly familiar with front-end and for most of the integrations, I've been able to leverage various APIs, where a lot of that backend-stuff is solved already (i.e. asking the server to get X Data and getting X back; like the IMF Data Tab). Downloading the spreadsheet and doing this myself, I'd have to get familiar with writing that type of code and the math first and it would take me a long time to implement. If someone would like to help doing the back-end it would be cool (please reach out). For now I feel like I still have so much left to do on the front-end of things. I'm also thinking about reaching out to the listed researchers at the bottom, once I'm ready to tackle it

Cool! Unfortunately I found no way of directly linking to the country. (I also checked the network in devtools, but nothing I'm familiar with or could use) It'll have to be a generic link for now

Thank you for making a pinned post, I'll use the opportunity to make two calls:

(The other thread was at the end of it's lifecycle already)

1. Under the Nexus > Misc tab you will find a basic integrations of:

• World Inequality Database
• UN Comtrade
• International Labour Organization
• International Energy Agency
• World Bank
• OECD

If there's (economic) data you'd like to see feel free to reach out. I at the very least will add linking, but will also make an effort for deeper integration at some point.

2. In order to increase usability of the atlas please add the location to the comment body. Also please consider following: Since there's a province/territory scope, and a lot of these are empty atm you can post local news from your area also. It would be cool for comrades that would like to now what's going on locally in different parts of the world. If doxxing is a concern: create a new account.

Example:

• You read interesting news about a certain location
• Post the news in the format you're used to, but
• If you use the exact wording how you find it in the atlas to "tag" (see what I mean below), you will make sure it pops up in that scope

e.g. Xinjiang, China , Eastern Asia , Asia, CN, CHN (in that exact wording; the Atlas works by using the lemmy search function to find these strings, by having it in the comment body you make them findable)

We as a community could for example also decide to use the ISO3166-alpha 3 for one type of news/post and the full nomeclature of the country/region for another type (not sure if need actually, it's just a thought/suggestion, but maybe someone has a cool/good suggestion)

Thank you :)

PSA: If you want to make the Atlas even more useful, make sure to add the name of the country, province, continent, etc. into the comment body when sharing news. This way the comment shows up on it

After some consideration I decided to make the code public under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE ( AGPL-3.0 license )

https://github.com/hexatlas/lemmy-atlas/

https://git.altesq.net/hex_atlas/lemmy-atlas/

Thank you for your input:

@hello_hello@hexbear.net

@kota@hexbear.net

@iByteABit@hexbear.net

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.

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!

Yes! Netlify was just something I used to get it quickly on the web. I believe @TheCaconym@hexbear.net is checking the external modules and would add it to atlas.hexbear.net (not sure if they meant to host it as well or just add it to the domain). I'll give you access to the github repo. Will thenetlify serverless functions have to be rewritten?

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! :)

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