Bime Map: Efficiently visualize data on beautiful maps

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24 points·mstkrft··7 comments

The low-quality JPEG background clashes badly with the call to action of "Efficiently visualize data on beautiful maps".

As does "beautiful" and 99% of the word's use in the tech world.

Looks cool! The number of data sources is surprising, and the pencil background looks amazing (does what it should, stay in the background).

However, what's the performance with big datasets?

For instance, I have a 2MM-records dataset which I can comfortably use in QGIS. BIME offers some great background maps, but I can imagine several huge bottlenecks from bandwidth (700mb files), browser limitations, etc.

How far can you pushed it?

Nevermind.. found that there is a Bime Desktop!

Some feedback:

- The PICK button was unresponsive until I F5ed

- I have no clue what measure vs attribute is about.

- Got logged out (session expired) twice.

- Tried BIME Desktop, got confused by the lack of a latitude/longitude value type (string or date only?)

- Couldn't upload a .raw file or a .txt file, had to rename to .tsv (but it still autodefaulted to CSV even though the extension was tvs)

- After I managed to change visualization type to "map", I was completely stuck. Again, where do I say "these are the coords, these are my user IDs, and these are the values I care about"?

It looks promising though, but being an early adopter surely sucks :(

Typo: "Sattelite" should be "Satellite"

Thanks, it's fixed !

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