City population bubble map for Russia
- Draw map of Russia with administrative borders in a conventional projection
- Add cities as circles, circle size proportional to city population
- Collect sources and uses of economic locational data (cellular network use, power consumption, transport, illumination, etc)
- Formalise visual requirements for a map
- Create city population and geoposition dataset
- Make visualsations in python using different libraries
- Maintain list of data sources used
- Make reading list of useful GIS-related links
Bits of GIS wisdom accululated so far:
- drawings are either JavaScript-based (bokeh, plotly, Altair) or raster-based (matplotlib), Al
- js libraries usually look smoother, but there is some ambiguity on how they render, saving to file is tricky
- Earth is an ellipsoid, unwrapping it to flat map requires a choice of projection
- you need a background picture of a map and some poligons for the administritive map
- what is the difference between topojson and geojson?
- https://toster.ru/q/328285
- https://github.com/zarkzork/russia-topojson/blob/master/russia.json
- https://plot.ly/~empet/14397/plotly-plot-of-a-map-from-data-available/#/
- http://gis-lab.info/qa/rusbounds-rosreestr-gen.html
- https://worldmap.harvard.edu/data/geonode:crimea_9sr
- http://www.datadependence.com/2016/06/creating-map-visualisations-in-python/
- https://sensitivecities.com/so-youd-like-to-make-a-map-using-python-EN.html
- https://python-graph-gallery.com/313-bubble-map-with-folium/
- http://geopandas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mapping.html
- https://blog.prototypr.io/interactive-maps-with-python-part-1-aa1563dbe5a9
- https://sensitivecities.com/so-youd-like-to-make-a-map-using-python-EN.html
- http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/
- https://antonfromperm.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/how-to-make-a-russian-regional-thematic-map/
- https://sashat.me/2017/04/21/what-happened-to-soviet-cities/
- https://pypi.org/project/geopy/