Peaks

What it does

Peaks is a visualization that explores the origin of mountain names in Switzerland. Visitors can explore the map and interact with the data through the filters on the right. At the bottom, there are three guided narratives. The piece is best experienced in a modern desktop browser ( screenshot ). If it doesn’t display properly, here’s a 2min walk-through . The underlying data is an amazing set of numerous georeferenced names of built infrastructure and topographical features in Switzerland. To make sense of this big dataset (a 50MB text file with 224,369 lines of data), I built custom Node.js tools to filter, analyze, and convert the data into more understandable and manageable forms.…from raphaelschaad.github.io

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