Stargazers Map(stargazersmap.com)

https://stargazersmap.com/

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Hi everyone! This is a 3 year old project and I’m thrilled, that it got lots of traction today.

Unfortunately I had to take it offline, as the free tier of mapbox has exceeded and the API calls we need for the reverse geocoding are super expensive.

Any ideas for an alternative are very welcome!

Best @fabfuel

eatbitseveryday5 lat temu

Stargazer is a word associated with looking at stars in the sky. Since the site is disabled now, I saw in the comments here it is related to Github repository stars (bookmarking). Was hoping for a real stargazing site :-)

WarOnPrivacy5 lat temu

Me too!

Last night we had a family conjunction - kids w/ a day off from work + new moon setting at 7pm and + relatively clear sky.

We drove 1½ hours to our nearest area with dark skies and looked at actual stars for 20 minutes.

dewey5 lat temu

I'm just getting an Access Denied error.

    <Code>AccessDenied</Code>
    <Message>Access Denied</Message>
    <RequestId>H6WGJ1ECP646DYJ0</RequestId>

aquir5 lat temu

I get this: "Sorry, we ran out of budget for the MapBox Geocoding API... :-("

goccy5 lat temu

I'm sorry. I'm a fan of this service, and when I introduced it in a my tweet ( https://twitter.com/goccy54/status/1370800229054779396?s=20 ) , it seems that many users have accessed it.

[deleted]5 lat temu

anonytrary5 lat temu

I am not sure what this does. You enter a repository (e.g. https://stargazersmap.com/#facebook/react) and it shows some grouped (by count) map results. What exactly am I seeing? There was no visible explanation/about page. Is this a map of where all the people who starred the repo came from? How would you know their locations?

ccchapman5 lat temu

GitHub users may provide their location on their profile. I think this is how they show repository starers on a map.

anonytrary5 lat temu

Thanks, makes sense.

throw27375 lat temu

It throws error on repo with a few thousand stars

dilyevsky5 lat temu

Names with “-“ don’t work

LaputanMachine5 lat temu

You can enter the name without the dash first, and add the dash later.

sleavey5 lat temu

Pasting seems to almost work too; it deletes the character after the `-` instead...

pugworthy5 lat temu

Not quite...

adafruit/Adafruit-GFX-Library doesn't work

adafruit/circuitpython-org works

faho5 lat temu

No, entering the dash doesn't work. There's some funky js or something on the text box, and if you're looking for a repo with a "-" in it you have to paste it.

sdflhasjd5 lat temu

It also doesn't allow upper-case in the owner field.

fdw5 lat temu

Thanks, this is neat. I love to see where the people are that liked my software so much they starred it. Makes it a bit more real that they're actual people and that all the time I spent on it is worth it.

So far, I've been using https://thepirat000.github.io/StargazersMap/index.html so far, which has a more... basic interface, but also seems a bit more detailed with usernames.

polm235 lat temu

Since people seem confused...

I didn't make this, I saw it on Twitter and posted it.

I think this is what it does:

- gets list of stargazers (starring users) from Github

- checks user's profile for Location

- uses geolocation via Mapbox

- renders map with Mapbox

A lot of this happens in your browser, so if the repo has many stars they may load progressively. On the other hand I haven't seen it error out.

The Mapbox geolocation API has some quirks - it seems it always returns coordinates for a location, even if it's a random string, so you get things like "somewhere else before" being in the Phillipines, or "Okinawa, Japan" being in Florida. (I guess that has to be some weird US base thing, but still...)

There is definitely some weird JS on the input box, but I am able to type "-" without issue.

Koshkin5 lat temu

What we desperately need now is a map of people who clicked on the link.