# kartograph/kartograph.js

UNMAINTAINED Open source JavaScript renderer for Kartograph SVG maps

Repository: https://github.com/kartograph/kartograph.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kartographjs
Homepage: http://kartograph.org
Language: CoffeeScript
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2018-05-12T17:21:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5403, "days_push": 3035, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1495, forks 222 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:53.130132+00:00)

## What it is
Kartograph.js is a JavaScript library for rendering interactive SVG maps in web browsers, built on jQuery and RaphaelJS. It supports choropleth coloring, symbol overlays like bubbles, and loads maps generated by Kartograph.py.

## Use cases
- render interactive svg maps in the browser
- create choropleth maps colored by data values
- add bubbles and symbols to a map at lat/lon coordinates
- visualize geographic data on a website
- style map layers with custom fills and tooltips

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy project that already uses Kartograph
- you specifically need Kartograph.py-generated SVG maps rendered client-side

## When to avoid
- starting a new mapping project — use d3.js or TopoJSON-based tools instead
- you need modern browser support without jQuery/Raphael dependencies
- you need active maintenance or new map projections

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: data-visualization, graphics
- domain: data-visualization, web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: svg-maps, choropleth, cartography, unmaintained, raphaeljs, jquery, maps, javascript

## Member repositories
- kartograph/kartograph.js (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:53.130132+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:17.415205+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kartograph/kartograph.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:53.130132+00:00, sha 0dec250ec1c3)
  - homepage: http://kartograph.org (fetched 2026-08-29T11:39:02.130644+00:00, sha 66f3e5d2a978)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.