hex_atlas [comrade/them, he/him] @ hex_atlas @hexbear.net

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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

Emoji support added :)

I added the paper and your comment to the issue on GitHub. Personally I don't have experience with what I takes to implement a feature like this and will definitely reach out to you when I'm ready to takle this task. Thank you for looking into this.

Very good Idea! Thank you, I will add it!

Is there some desire to add a way to look up a relation between two countries in the UI? Or, even more specifically, an industry in a country with an industry in another?

Yes! Ideally you'd be able to select two or more countries and see capital and commodity flows and show (imperial) relations. Not sure how to achieve that yet, but I view this as a long-term project.

Do you have experience with the math etc. involved?

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

Most errors should be fixed now. I wasn't able to match these:

No match found for country: Ashmore and Cartier Islands

No match found for country: Bajo Nuevo Bank (Petrel Is.)

No match found for country: Clipperton Island

No match found for country: Coral Sea Islands

No match found for country: Northern Cyprus

No match found for country: Dhekelia Soverign Base Area

No match found for country: Indian Ocean Territories

No match found for country: Baykonur Cosmodrome

No match found for country: Siachen Glacier

No match found for country: Null Island

No match found for country: Spratly Is.

No match found for country: Scarborough Reef

No match found for country: Serranilla Bank

No match found for country: US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay

No match found for country: Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area

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 :)

Comrade @Parsani@hexbear.net suggested to add more economic data and I was able to (at least link) to various data sources. I will look for deeper integration another time: You will find these in the Nexus > Misc Tab

World Inequality Database

UN Comtrade

International Labour Organization

International Energy Agency

World Bank

OECD

Feel free to propose more suggestions (I probably repost this call in the next newsmega as mondays ususallly seem to be the days these threads get reset)

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

Thank you for your suggestion, I pushed an update just now. But I noticed that it only works locally and not on hex-atlas.netlify.app. I'll be able to debug later this week

It's probably because I manually edited Israel to be Palestine and it screwed with the file 😅 Thank you for reporting it I'll be able to fix it later this week. Feel free to add issues to https://github.com/hexatlas/lemmy-atlas/ if you find more

I ended up making it public :)

It's not my first project, but the first one that I ended up making open source. I've been mostly coding for fun on front-end personal projects. Software Engineering is such a big field, that all I know is that I don't know enough probably never will

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

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

Thank you for your offer! Let me know if you need help setting it up

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

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

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 :/