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Originally Posted by BandChick
Wow. Nice job, Greg!
Did you map only the cities for each team?
...And they say I have too much free time...
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I did indeed only map the cities. This creates a slight problem if there is more than one team per city, since the pins are on top of each other. It also creates a problem with international teams, since they often didn't include their country in their location, and this confuses Google's geocoding algorithms.
Actually, this took only about two hours of work, and it was the sort of work where you multitask at the same time. I scraped all the location data from FIRST's site, so it wasn't too bad to do. The scraping code took a bit longer, but I had already done it. If anyone ever needs a database of all FIRST teams, let me know.
Does FIRST have data pages like they do for FVC and FLL teams? It would be possible to scrape that data too and make a super mega ginourmous map.