State of Russian Language in Former Soviet Union Countries — an Interactive Map
Recently, I’ve already mentioned a Map Builder as a part of KAFKA. Yesterday we at CurrentTime published the first interactive map built using this tool.
The map shows current status of Russian Language across 15 Former Soviet Union Countries: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and, finally, Russia.
We figured out four groups of countries depending on the status of the language: State Language (2 countries), Official (2 countries), Language of Multinational Communication (1) and No Special Status (10 countries). These groups are highlighted on the map in four different colors. You may click on each country to read more (in Russian).
As a mapping engine I used OpenStreetMap with Leaflet for putting GeoJSON layers on the map and user interactions. Backend runs on Django. For SEO purposes we decided to output each popup content at the bottom of the page.
