Map of All Active FRC Teams

FIRST General Forum
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I wanted to see the global distribution of teams. But I couldn’t find a map of them, so I made one. Enjoy.

MAP

How I made this: First, I used the TBA API to get a list of all of the teams and the years they were active. I decided to restrict myself to active teams, meaning those participating in 2017. Once I had my list of active teams, I used the Nominatim OpenStreetMap API to get representative latitude-longitude coordinates for each team’s location. By representative, I mean that they are in the city listed as the team’s location. They are not the actual locations, so don’t use this for navigational purposes.
There are about 30 teams (mostly Israeli) still missing; this is due to Nominatim not understanding the location data from TBA. I am adding those coordinates by hand, and they should be up shortly.

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Absolutely Awesome!

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Pretty cool. Not to rain on your parade at all, but there was a previous implementation headed by 1418.

https://firstmap.github.io/

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When I pull up Lees Summit, Missouri I get only the Broncobots (1987). It should also show Team Driven (1730) and Team Titanium (1986).

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I forgot we also have 1825, the Cyborgs.

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If you go the search bar and search 1730, 1825, and 1986 they all appear on the same point it appears.

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No rain at all. I just threw mine together programatically in a few hours. This one is much better.

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I didn’t realize there were so many teams in Europe.

Does anyone know if there are plans for a regional there soon?

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Well at least you actually put teams in China and didn’t put the Northern Lights regional in France!

Who knew that Tel Aviv was in the Philippines, Hanoi was in Russia, and Shanghai was in South Africa?

I think the other map is still a work in progress, nice job on yours!

There are way more teams than I expected, especially in Turkey! It seems like they could totally sustain a regional in Istanbul.

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Cool map!

I saw one issue though: 1305 is listed in Thunder Bay, ON, when they should be listed in North Bay, ON.

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Almost want to have a map of teams that are now defunct, ideally with a tag for the reason they stopped.

Team attrition makes me sad, I wish there was more I could do to help prevent it. I’ve always thought that keeping existing teams is far more important than starting new teams.

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Since TBA has as accurate as a history as you are going to get on most FRC teams these mapping applications could probably be modified to drop two sets of colored pins, one for teams that are no longer active as of 2017 and another color for ones that are.

Tags on why teams stopped would have to all be manual. Sadly it wouldn’t be hard, just alternate listing “lost lead coach/mentor” and “lost main sponsor” every other team and you’ll get at least half of them correct :frowning: . Looking at old team lists from Arizona every team that I knew well and folded was due to one of those causes.

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I think Jim Zondag has a wealth of information on defunct teams. I believe much of it has to do with money after their rookie year and post-NASA funding.

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A lot of our now defunct teams in Florida either dropped down to FTC or failed after the JC Penny grant.

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This morning I noticed one omission, Team 0045 Kokomo TechnoKats, Kokomo Indiana

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It’s there. It was covered by another team, but I fixed that.

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I used a combination of your maps, data on TBA, and Google Maps to discover that 159 is the oldest active team for a 500 mile radius! :yikes:

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3230 is missing from Salt Lake City…

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Very cool map, thanks for sharing!

I’m wondering if there’s a way you could allow teams to edit and add their exact location. This would avoid the problem a few readers have had, where there are multiple teams in one town so they only see one, giving the impression that the other teams are missing. I’m not sure how you could do that while preventing bad locations from being added, so I’m just giving an idea here.

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The map of all FIRST Chesapeake District FRC teams includes a layer for “retired” teams. It’s a pretty good first attempt toward this, but it’s missing some of the data you request.

http://i.imgur.com/t5Dxooel.png