Ilya Boyandin
FlowmapBlue is a geographic data visualization tool for representing aggregated numbers of movements between locations as flow maps. It is used to visualize urban mobility, commuting behavior, bus, subway and air travels, bicycle sharing, human and bird migration, refugee flows, marine traffic, freight transportation, trade, supply chains, scientific collaborations, epidemiological and historical data and data on many other topics.
Merger of the UCF projects into the OpenJS foundation.
Flow maps are a useful tool for the analysis of urban mobility. Understanding how people move in cities is important for improving urban safety, road infrastructure, traffic congestion, resource utilization and energy consumption.
FlowmapBlue is used by GIS analysts, transport and urban planners, mobility service providers and researchers for visualizing urban mobility data coming from various sources: census, surveys, simulation models, service usage statistics, sensors (e.g. mobile phones).
- What is the ecosystem impact of the project?
Several thousands datasets have been visualized with FlowmapBlue so far.
The core rendering functionality of FlowmapBlue has been used as a JavaScript library in several third-party projects.
- Who are the biggest users of the project? (if they are not JavaScript space, then will it ever expand to JavaScript space)
Transportation planning agencies, transit authorities, shared mobility companies, public administrations, e.g. MTA (New York), AECOM, EUROCONTROL, City of El Paso, City of Zurich.
- What is the potential long term impact and adoption?
Adoption by more users or use of the rendering functionality in third-party projects.
- How does it differ from other projects?
There are a few similar projects:
FlowmapBlue focuses on the ease of use and the readability of the visualization. The tool employs adaptive clustering, filtering and summarization and offers a unique scalable approach for representing geographic movement at varying aggregation levels. The goal of the tool is to make flow mapping truly scalable and easy to use for as many people as possible.
At Large
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/flowmap-blue
- https://github.com/FlowmapBlue/FlowmapBlue/discussions
- https://flowmap.blue/news
- https://tinyletter.com/flowmap-blue/archive
- Is there a leadership team? Who are the members of the leadership team?
Ilya Boyandin is currently the solo developer.
- How are members of the leadership team nominated?
No process yet.
- How are individuals outside of leadership given commit access?
Via PRs.
- Is the project open/willing to move to open governance, if not already in place?
Open to disuss this.
- Is the project willing to adopt the OpenJS Foundation Code of Conduct (CoC)?
Yes.
- Please share links to all existing documentation e.g. GOVERNANCE.md / CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/FlowmapBlue/FlowmapBlue#readme
For each repository, please provide:
- link to repo:
https://github.com/FlowmapBlue/FlowmapBlue
- license information:
MIT License
- who owns the Intellectual Property (IP):
Ilya Boyandin/UCF
- link to issue tracker:
https://github.com/FlowmapBlue/FlowmapBlue/issues
- link to code of conduct (CoC):
https://github.com/FlowmapBlue/FlowmapBlue/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- optionally, the full list of vendored dependencies contained in the source tree, including license information. A full audit of all vendored dependencies will be required before your project can officially join the foundation, but this can be done later with foundation support.
Does your project currently receive funds? Who do they come from and what are the funds used for?
No.
What needs will your project have from the foundation? Feel free to provide a list.
What questions do you have? What questions might arise during your application?