Alsino's course project at the University of Applied Science, Potsdam, end of 2015
Found an interesting database on UFO sightings
Idea: Are people in Germany still reporting UFOs today? Where do they live? Are they crazy (maybe)?
The plan:
Alsino and Hans met at Maptime Berlin (a few months back)
Decided to re-work the project (i.e. get all the data) as fun little side project (...just gonna take a few weekends, right?"); learn more about Mapbox GL JS, Open Refine and more...
Goal: Design and develop an interactive map that shows all UFO sightings in Germany
Data:
Hans wrote a scraper to collect all the sightings information from the database (node.js) and store it as csv
Geocoding (i.e. finding lat/lng) with Google Geocode-API and OpenRefine (see this great tutorial)