Here’s some code to show the distance to the nearest airports on a map.
Here’s a modified version that shows the distance to the nearest Gregg’s. The hub-and-spoke visualisation overlaid on the map changes as you pan around, making it look like a spider bestriding the landscape.
Jonty’s version shows the distance to the nearest Pret a Manger.
I got nerdsniped by someone saying:
@adactio This would be cool for sessions 😉
He’s right, dammit! So here you go:
Now you can see how far you are from the nearest traditional Irish music sessions.
It’s using data from the weekly data dumps from thesession.org—I added a GeoJSON file in there.
Pure silliness, but it does make me wonder what kind of actually good data visualisations could be made with all this scrumptious data.
