AgentMaps - Social Simulations on Interactive Maps
AgentMaps is a Javascript library for building and visualizing dynamic social systems on maps. It is based on the Leaflet interactive mapping library. Given a neighborhood, AgentMaps lets you quickly and easily:
- Build units along the streets.
- Spawn agents onto the map.
- Schedule them to move between places on the map.
- Change their appearance and properties.
AgentMaps lets you turn this:
into something like this:
You can install it via npm (npm install agentmaps) and bundle it yourself, or you can get a premade bundle here to include directly in a webpage.
You'll need to include Leaflet separately.
Documentation
Docs for people who want to use AgentMaps are available here.
Docs people who want to understand its internals are here.
A basic walkthrough for creating an AgentMaps simulation can be found here.
Demos
Simple: Shows all the different ways agents can travel around a map.
Epidemic: Agents commute between different parts of a neighborhood while an infection spreads between them.
You can find the corresponding code under /demos in the gh-pages branch here.
Authors
- Andrew - came up with & built AgentMaps
Acknowledgements
I've only had a few extended conversations talking and thinking about this project outloud over the last few months, and those probably influenced how I went forward with it. The people I've had those discussions with are:
- I. ("Wheels") Errati
- M. ("dont ask me, ask gagan") Singh
Thank you to anyone who somehow benefits from this.
AgentMaps: Geospatial Agent-based Modeling and Simulation for JavaScript.