Rainbow Boys
Description: Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
This map of GitHub projects is made based on GitHub users use of stars to save or like a repository. In simple terms it connects two different repositories based on the number of users who have starred both repositories. In more detailed terms it organizes a database of 350 million stars awarded to repositories between 2020 and the end of March 2023 using a Jaccard Similarity algorithm.
When zoomed out on the map all the repositories are organized into 'countries'. The names for each "country" were hand-picked by the map's creator, Andrei Kashcha, with a little help from ChatGPT. As you zoom in on the map more 'region' labels will appear on the map. For example you can find 'Maplands' if you zoom in on 'AILandia' in the top-right corner of the map.
If you right-click on a country or region label you can choose to view the largest projects in that area. For example the largest GitHub repositories in Mapland include Mapbox, turf.js and deck.gl (presumably size is determined here by the number of stars given to a repository). If you click on the name of an individual repository lines appear on the map showing the starred connections between the different repositories. Information about the selected project is also displayed in the map sidebar.
Rainbow Boys