Antarctic Bases

Project created for university assignment for the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute of Sofia University. Used electronjs for building the app with mapboxjs for visualisating the map itself, also I made a webscraper for wikipedia table elements to colect data and save it into JSON file with all the needed formatting which then it populate the map.

You can download the prebuild version here:

https://github.com/y-dashev/antarctic-bases

Features :

• ELectron Js for building it as a desktop app.
• Webscraper made with Python (using beatifoulSoup4) to exctract data from wikipedia tables and save it to JSON file with all the needed formatting /Check the webScraper folder
• MapboxJs satellite map used to display the map itself.All the 'anchor' icons represent a base because the antarctic bases are with status of a ships.
• When clicking on the icon for the base it will display a pop-up with name of the station and link to wikipedia page for it.

How to run the app:

• clone/download the repository then run the following commands in the root folder
• run 'npm install' command to install all dependencies
• run 'npm start' to launch the app and test it
• run 'npm make' to build the app for distribution/packaging

Wikiepedia Link Of the Table That Was Extracted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_stations_in_Antarctica

Important Notice:

Do not use this map for navigation because data extracted from wikipedia could be incorrect/incomplete

If you like this project you can always give it a star or contribute to it !