Firefly Map of Coronavirus Case Locations
A dark, inverted basemap displays locations with confirmed coronavirus cases as of early March 2020, each rendered as a small glowing firefly-like sprite. The visualization uses OpenLayers with a React component, drawing points from Johns Hopkins CSSE time-series data. Sprite generation employs a radial gradient with D3’s `cubehelix` color space to create the glow effect, while vector features are styled with OpenLayers `Icon` and `Style` objects on a Canvas/WebGL renderer.
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Firefly Cartography with OpenLayers and React.
Each point on the map is a location for which there was at least one confirmed Coronavirus case as of 3/5/2020. Each location is shown as the same size and intensity, regardless of how many cases there were (this is a shortcoming of this visualization).
Data from Johns Hopkins: CSSEGISandData/COVID-19;