Explore twin cities

An experimental tool for exploring twin cities of the world as a network map. You can find the tool here.

Using the code

This tool is a Svelte app. You can run it locally by cloning this repo and then running the following commands (assuming you have NodeJS installed):

npm install
npm run dev

To build the app for deployment as static HTML/CSS/JS, you can run the following command, which will write the relevant files to the /dist directory:

npm run build

Get the data

The data behind this tool is extracted from Wikidata. You can download the nodes (cities) here and the edges (connections) here.The format of these files is TSV (tab-separated values), which can be opened in any spreadsheet software.