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The map in the readme is puzzling me. It's almost like a riddle: what is there a lot of in the UK, east America, Portugal, and barely any of in Norway, Spain, and Belgium? It looks country-related, since you can see the borders defined pretty well. Is it the Starbucks data? It would explain why Finland appears to have a few, compared to its neighbours.


Judging by used color, the picture might be a result of this demo: https://github.com/mmcloughlin/globe/blob/master/examples/ci...

I have no idea what kind of cities might be listed in 'cities.json'.


Yes, the first image in the README is from cities.go. The data file is too big so I didn't include it in the repo, but the Makefile will fetch it.

https://github.com/mmcloughlin/globe/blob/master/examples/Ma...

It came from this node package

https://www.npmjs.com/package/cities.json/

It looks like the dataset has more cities in some countries than others.


Probably not Starbucks, way to many mapped in Sweden. Starbucks is not that widely spread here.


Yes the top image in the README is cities. The Starbucks image is lower down in their distinctive green color.


There's a cities.go file in the examples, maybe it's that? But the relevant cities.json is not in this repo.




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