Stargazers Map

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

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.

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 :-)

I'm just getting an Access Denied error.

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

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.

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?

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

It throws error on repo with a few thousand stars

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.

Names with “-“ don’t work