This map plots 6871 North American born players going back to the 1917-1918 inaugural.
Each players birth city was geolocated down to the county level based on what data was available.
There were a few players without data in the set so its technically not every player. I also cant guaruantee the original data set had every player to begin with. This seems to be pretty close tho so I went with it lol
I made the map on ArcGIS and shared it there for everyone.
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This map plots 6871 North American born players going back to the 1917-1918 inaugural.
Each players birth city was geolocated down to the county level based on what data was available.
There were a few players without data in the set so its technically not every player. I also cant guaruantee the original data set had every player to begin with. This seems to be pretty close tho so I went with it lol
I made the map on ArcGIS and shared it there for everyone.
Interactive ArcGIS; https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=87dea755c0034d5593d0258408d253dc
Player data: https://www.hockey-reference.com/friv/birthplaces.cgi
Geocoding: https://www.geoapify.com/
Tools: python, pandas
Makes sense- the winters are pretty long in some of those provinces and there’s not much else to do than skate and play hockey.
Map of ice availability with extra steps /s
County level? Most provinces don’t have counties
Tennessee has more NHL teams (1) than players in the last over 100 years (0)
Why on earth do they have a team? Could they not just move the team to Manitoba, which looks like it has a ton of players?