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sfshows

mapping underground music shows in the bay area. see it [here]

background

[https://metasyn.pw/sfshows] was a project i

started around 2014 to show where various venues are in the san francisco bay

area. the shows are scraped from an amazing resource: [The List].

_the list_ has been around for quite some time, and does a great job listing a

lot of shows in a pretty nice, simple, accessible format. like craigslist!

however, i found myself forgetting which venues where which, and more

importantly, which ones were on my side of the bay (in san francisco usually).

in order to map these resources, i've manually entered all of the latitude and

longitudes of various venues over the years:

in order to map the resources presented on _the list_, i wrote a small parser

in rust. previously i had a cronjob that ran this, but finally decided to just

make it a route on its own binary. like other projects, this was my first time

writing any rust code. the source code can be found

[on sourcehut].

you can also use the json formatted results of _the list_ at

[https://metasyn.pw/show-scraper].

once we have a json list of shows to use - the site uses

[MapLibre] and react primarily. originally, the site

was written in vanilla javascript, but i wanted an excuse to learn some react

when i first started encountering it. i ended up switching the site to use

react just as a learning opportunity, and likely will change it again sometime

when i need to learn some other frontend framework.

you can see the source code of the mapper itself

[on sourcehut].

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