Microelectronics in Austria — Map

An interactive map and an editable SVG that visualize companies, research institutions, universities, and clusters of the Austrian microelectronics ecosystem ("Silicon Austria").

Live map: https://iic-jku.github.io/map-microelectronics-austria/

The dataset is curated from publicly available information (FEEI, Silicon Alps Cluster, Silicon Austria Labs, company/university websites, the company register/Northdata, Wikipedia, and trade press).

Contents

File	Description
map.html	Interactive Leaflet map (published via GitHub Pages as index.html).
data.js	The editable data source: categories and locations.
generate_svg.py	Generates an editable, print-ready SVG map from data.js.
austria_states.geojson	Cached Austrian state boundary geometry (used by the SVG generator).

Editing the data

All locations live in data.js. Each entry is one location:

{ name: "Company / Institution", city: "Villach", state: "Carinthia",
  lat: 46.6111, lon: 13.8558, category: "semiconductor",
  web: "https://example.com", note: "optional remark" }

• lat / lon: coordinates in decimal degrees.
• category: must match a key in the CATEGORIES object at the top of the file.
• note: optional; shown in the tooltip/popup.

After editing, reload map.html or re-run the SVG generator.

Local usage

View the interactive map by opening map.html in a browser (it loads Leaflet from a CDN and OpenStreetMap tiles).

Generate the SVG (requires only the Python standard library):

python3 generate_svg.py
# -> microelectronics_austria.svg

The state geometry is read from the committed austria_states.geojson, so the generator runs fully offline.

Continuous deployment

The GitHub Actions workflow runs on every push to main:

1. regenerates microelectronics_austria.svg from data.js, and
2. publishes the interactive map (and the generated SVG) to GitHub Pages.

To enable publishing, set Settings → Pages → Build and deployment → Source to GitHub Actions once in the repository.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See NOTICE for attribution details.

Copyright 2026 Harald Pretl, Department for Integrated Circuits (ICD), Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, in cooperation with FEEI.