FICTION MAP

Type: Web Application
Year: 2018
Platform: Web Browsers
Development Environment: Python, JavaScript, HTML5, D3.js

Fiction Map is an ongoing project aiming at visualizing fiction.

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A user can choose a fiction in a mobile device and display the locations described in the book on the big screen.

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The location data was extracted by Stanford NLP/NER (https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.html). The geo-location and map-rendering APIs were provided by MapboxGL (https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/api/).

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This is so far a simple prototype, which yet to solve some key issues such as the correctness of the locations extracted from the text file, and the accuracy of the geo-locations.