Snipe: Progressive Visualization of Big Spatial Networks

Snipe

Authors

Sadeem Alsudais, Qiushi Bai, Chen Li, Shuang Zhao

A system to visualize a large spatial network progressively. It provides visualization simplification techniques such as vertex clustering and edge bundling. It allows interactive exploration through zooming and panning.

You can setup Snipe on AWS from a public image following these instructions.

Setup AWS

From AWS console, on the left tab select AMI and search for public images for Snipe-Image then follow the steps to launch an instance from the image.
On creating the instance wizard, click on next until Step#6. Add a new rule to open port 9000.

! Note:the initialization would take a few minutes.

Instance settings:

8GB memory
4 vCPUs
OS: Amazon Linux
Installed Softwares:
- Java
- sbt (Scala building tool)
- Postgresql

Setup the environment

Open a new terminal shell to connect to the AWS machine use ubuntu as the username to connect to the instance.
Navigate to a file and change the link to match your AWS address.

vim graph_viz/public/javascripts/logic.js
change websiteName to match you AWS address

Start Snipe

Go to a directory
```
cd graph_viz
```
Start Snipe
```
sbt run
```
Use your Web browser to open the link http://[your aws ip]:9000.