kwisatz / github-map

A map showing the estimates of GitHub users in cities worldwide

GitHub Mapping 🌐

A map showing the estimated percentage of people in each city with a GitHub account.

Cities and Population Data

The original populations and cities were derived from the 2015 estimates of this data set:

• http://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/global-city-population-estimates
• https://files.datapress.com/london/dataset/global-city-population-estimates/global-city-population-estimates.xls
• UK Open Government Licence (OGL v2) - April 2014 - Copyright © 2014 by United Nations.

The results were massaged into a format for use with the Python GitHub scraper (github-api.py).

Tech

The application uses:

• Leaflet
• Esri Leaflet
• Leaflet.heat
• Leaflet.ajax

Contribution

Please feel free to contribute your city! Just it to the github-cities.geojson file, with a sourced city population and the total number of GitHub users. It's probably easiest to check this manually for one off cities using the Advanced Search functionality.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Esri for the basemaps! This is based on an open source project I did whilst at Esri UK. Many thanks for the awesome Octocats from the Octodex https://octodex.github.com/ !