beheni/filmmap

Usage of Folium and GeoPy modules

Film Map

Creates an HTML map with the location you entered (black marker) and shows (red markers) the nearest 10 locations where some films where shot in the given year

Program uses folium (generating HTML map) and geopy.geocoders (getting coordinates by location) libraries

Usage

Program works from a command line (uses argparse for parsing arguments)

> python main.py 2017 1 1 locations_1.4

It takes 4 positional arguments:

• year
• latitude of the starting point
• longitude of the starting point
• path to the dataset (1.4 thousand films) or the larger one (1.2 million films)

Output

Program creates an html file like this

Tool set

When you open the map you can:

• zoom in or out and enter or exit full-screen mode (topright)

• show or hide layers of film markers and you starting location (topright)

• change scrolling method (bottomleft)

• mini map that shows your location and you can change the location on it (bottomright)