The Tattoo Mapper

Project

The Tattoo Mapper was an experimental website development. We mapped out the top 1000 tattoos according to the top 1000 posts on Reddit’s /r/tattoos. Users are able to scroll around on a map and interact with pins to view the top tattoo in the specified area.

Challenges

The most notable challenge was geolocating the tattoo only based on its title. We scraped the posts using Reddit’s API and then parsed the data using Google Maps Geocoding API. Once the latitude and longitude data was stored in the database, it was then aggregated and plotted using Google Maps Javascript API.