SUSTech Alumni Map

A map filled with SUSTech alumni who are willing to help current SUSTech students in their application procedure. Hosted at GitHub, which allows for everyone to add their map entries. ♥ Join us!

👉 https://sustech-application.github.io/SUSTech-Alumni-Map/

The screenshot above shows what user entries look like. You’ll even get your own URL for your entry, which is awesome! Look, this is a link to SUSTech.

How to add and manage your entry?

You can add your marker to the map and manage your data by yourself. Learn about 3 ways how to manage your entry! 🚀

Who’s the map for?

The map is for any SUSTech student or staff: undergraduates, graduates et al. It’s about visualizing the distribution of SUSTech alumni. If you are one of SUSTech, the map is for you!

How does this map work?

No big deal: GitHub allows to generate static websites out of repositories. They make use of Jekyll, a ruby based generator. Jekyll comes with Liquid templates, which helped us to inject all our map entries within a JSON at the bottom of the HTML. JavaScript grabs the data and starts a nice Leaflet map with beautiful tiles provided by CARTO.
—Well, that’s it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How can I improve this site?

We’d recommend you to download the repo as zip file instead and make it run on your local machine first (see SETUP.md for instructions).

In case you struggle, we’d love to help: 11510706 AT mail.sustc.edu.cn.

How to run the map on my local machine?

See SETUP.md for instructions.