The visualisation:
http://nieman.de/Randir/
P.S. Its was a Proof-of-concept project. So it works not that great. So refresh the page once before it will show the tiles.
The story behind the project:
Around June, couple of months after I started uni, I were looking through some links on wikipedia. And I stumbled on couple of articles about countries visa requirement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_United_States_citizens. I was fascinated. I thought to my self "Damn, I would be awesome have a visualisation of that data, so you can lean back on your chair, select your country and see where your feey could take you to...". After few months, and visiting various bootcamps(Specifically SoT git bootcamp. Thanks SoT!) I decided to parse wikipedia data into JSON. The problem was that USA have table of four column of data. Most countries would have three. Some countries would have separate paragraphs for each continent separate table with two-three columns of data... It was a nightmare. So then I found the website that had most of the countries, and nice interface(No visualisation thou). So I parsed the entire website into json, and since them it kicked in. Currently I have cross-referenced json database of 250 different states/items of international law. I wrote a tool using python for easier editing it, and made 100 commits by my self. That included adding all existing custom unions(Shengen, Evraz etc...) adding most the existing states, merging with mledoze/countries, updating and fixing various countries and their relations. I even did write visualisation for PoC nieman.de/Randir. I have not done pushed any commits for last four months due to lack of time, but I think this is useful to the community project, that does not deserve to die. So here is my cry for help.
If any of you wish to help, I would be more then happy to accept it. The project consist of various data, such as: visa data, geo.json data for each state, and merged data from mledoze/countries. The data consists unrecognised states and shows DE-FACTO not DE-JURE state of the world. The project is fully apolitical. My intentions are purely to answer the question "If I want to go `here` what visa do I need.". The state, flag, recognition and other things that everybody worry about is non of my concern. Thanks to anyone who would even read this article, I appreciate the fact that you have spend your time on my article.
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