Oh God, It's To A Greater Extent Than Or Less Other Eurovision Map

It's Eurovision time. Right straight off on a TV channel around you lot the best of Europe's aspiring vocal writers are competing inwards this year's Eurovision vocal contest. God accept mercy on our souls.

If you lot can't survive bothered to sentinel through hours of awful music hence you lot tin instead browse through hours of awful music on this Eurovision Map, brought to you lot past times Pinq Map, the existent gay map of the world.

If you lot are a existent sucker for aural penalization you lot tin banking corporation agree out around previous years' Eurovision contests on these maps:

Eurovision Contest 2010
Winners of the Eurovision Contest 1956-2009

A Serendipitous Stereographic Projection

Serendipity uses information from Spotify to present y'all the locations of 2 Spotify users who are listening to the same rails at the same time. The map shows the locations of 2 users who accept started listening to the same vocal on Spotify inside a 10th of a mo of each other, inwards dissimilar towns, cities, states, nations or timezones.

The affair I most similar well-nigh this application is the role of a stereographic projection. The Web Mercator projection seems to dominion the roost inwards online mapping these days, in addition to thus it is squeamish to run into a dissimilar map projection drib dead a rare outing.

When the map progresses from i paired serendipitous vocal to the adjacent duad of users it animates to a novel map view, which is detail interesting to lookout adult man amongst this stereographic projection. You too drib dead a quick boom of each novel vocal featured equally the map animates closed to the world.

The map was created amongst the assistance of D3.js. If y'all desire to role a stereographic projection inwards your ain maps y'all tin depository fiscal establishment jibe out the D3.js code for this map projection in addition to a demo stereographic projection map here.