Mapping The Brisbane G20 Summit

The Social Media Research Group at the Queensland University of Technology are mapping the social media action surrounding this weekend's G20 Summit inward Brisbane. The G20 Hypometer Map besides shows the place of restricted together with declared areas inward the city.

Geo-tagged Tweets sent from inside Brisbane are displayed on the map alongside circular map markers. You tin guide private markers on the map to read the private Twitter messages. You tin besides guide the 'Intensity Map' link to thought a heat-map of G20 related social media action inward the urban core together with the 'Time Map' link to thought an animation of the Twitter messages sent over time.

Around Norway On Video

Norwegian idiot box channel NRK has released a video map featuring clips from the pop idiot box programme Norge Rundt. Norge Rundt (Around Norway) has been broadcasting since 1976, featuring local stories from NRK offices approximately Norway.

Kart hos NRK has mapped 2,064 video clips from Norge Rundt, all of which tin sack move watched straight from the map. The map allows Norwegians to discovery as well as sentinel local Norge Rundt items which convey been broadcast from their surface area of the country.

The map uses an interesting marking clustering arrangement which industrial plant good when only a few video clips are existence mapped to the same location. However it becomes a piddling messy when you lot convey a lot of videos all mapped at the same place (see screenshot above). This propose that Kart hos NRK notwithstanding has a piddling move to create inwards to a greater extent than accurately geo-tagging the place of some of the Norge Rundt clips.

Mapping Bedtimes

I convey a theory that inwards Europe people who alive inwards the northern countries larn to bed far before than those who alive inwards southern Europe. The to a greater extent than protestant, dour northern Europeans caput off to a bed early. At precisely the same fourth dimension those Roman Catholic, fun-loving Europeans inwards the due south are but leaving habitation for that evening's fiesta.

For about argue I assumed that in that place would survive a like north-south split upwards inwards the USA. However it turns out that inwards the U.S. in that place is to a greater extent than of an east-west split. Jawbone has released an interactive map of Average Bedtime past times the States County. You tin encounter on the map higher upwards that in that place look to survive distinct bands of like bedtimes running E to due west across the country.

Jawbone has a reasonable explanation of this trend. They believe that this tendency is caused past times time-zones. If you lot hold back at the borders betwixt Eastern Time in addition to Central Time you lot tin clearly encounter that in that place is a marked departure inwards the times when people larn to bed on either side of the border. Jawbone debate that if people either side of the edge "go to bed iv hours after the Sun goes down, their clocks volition tell that the someone inwards Eastern Time went to bed i hr afterward than the someone inwards Central Time".

There are about obvious exceptions to this rule. For example, inwards close major cities in addition to inwards college towns bedtimes tend to survive a footling afterward than the norm for people who alive elsewhere on the same longitude.

This exception is too apparent inwards the divulge of hours Americans sleep. Jawbone has too released a map of the Total Hours of Night Sleep past times the States County. This map shows that inwards no major metropolis inwards the USA create close of the citizens larn the recommended 7 hours of slumber a night.

Mapping The Murder Of Journalists

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists 1,082 journalists convey been killed but about the globe since 1992. Reuters has created an interactive visualization, Journalist Deaths, of all 1,082 journalist deaths yesteryear fourth dimension in addition to yesteryear location.

The graphic includes 2 visualizations. 'Over Time' is an interactive bar nautical chart showing the disclose of journalists killed yesteryear year. You tin rank the sack filter the results shown inwards the graph yesteryear gender, employer, type of kicking the bucket in addition to yesteryear a disclose of other catgories.

The other visualization, 'By Location', plots the murdered journalists on a globe map. The killed journalists are solely mapped downwards to province level, notwithstanding the map does rank an overview of which countries are the most unsafe for journalists. You tin rank the sack too filter the results shown on the map using the same category filters used inwards the yearly bar chart.

In both visualizations y'all tin rank the sack click on the private information points to larn to a greater extent than nearly the private journalists killed land working on assignment. For to a greater extent than detailed information y'all tin rank the sack too click through on each information window to read a full-account of the journalist's kicking the bucket on the Committee to Protect Journalists website.

Mapping Generation Mauerfall

25 years later the autumn of the Berlin Wall Google has interviewed twenty-five young Germans to honour out what life is similar inward the reunified Germany. Google's #Deutschland25 features twenty-five interviews amongst individualswho convey grown-up inward Germany's Generation Mauerfall.

In the interviews manager as well as journalist Bettina Blümner questions twenty-five extraordinary immature Germans nearly their lives, hopes as well as dreams for the future. #Deutschland25 too includes a prominent Google Map which allows y'all to sentiment comments that other Germans convey left on the website as well as to function out your ain comments nearly life as well as the of import social issues inward Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany today.

Are Y'all A Candyographer?

National Geographic has a novel educational interactive to attention learn you lot all almost nutrient production as well as consumption only about the world. Planet Food consists of a number of nutrient challenges inwards which you lot tin hand the axe win badges yesteryear exploring where your nutrient is produced, how far it travels to become to your plate as well as the environmental, wellness as well as fiscal impacts of the foods you lot eat.

Leaflet.js maps are used inwards a number of the challenges to attention illustrate some of the issues affecting the global merchandise inwards nutrient  For representative the maps are used to explicate where dissimilar nutrient stuffs come upwards from, how far they go as well as where they are exported to. As you lot consummate each of the gear upwards nutrient challenges you lot are awarded badges to demo your progress through Planet Food.

The Barrier Reef On Street View

Google in addition to the Catlin Seaview Survey produce got released to a greater extent than underwater Street View imagery captured off the coast of Australia. In the novel imagery you lot tin explore the beaches of Bondi in addition to the seafloor of the Great Barrier Reef.

I've gone on a petty scuba dive to honour near of the amazing sights inwards this novel imagery. So, if you lot desire to come across to a greater extent than or less of the highlights from Google's underwater Sea View imagery, you lot tin accept a plunge into my petty Sea View Aquarium.

Just proceed scrolling downwards to browse through the dissimilar Street View images and, if you lot desire to thought an private Street View on Google Maps, only click on the Google logo.

Maps Of The Week

There accept been a lot of maps released this calendar month commemorating the 25th anniversary of the autumn of the Berlin Wall. Among my favorites was this map from Castilian radio & tv set broadcaster RTVE. The map investigates the 138 victims who were killed trying to cross the Wall during the Cold War.

During the 28 years of the Wall's being 121 men, eight women too ix children were killed piece trying to cross into West Berlin. Caidos en el Muro uses the Google Maps API to plot the locations where each of the 138 victims were killed piece trying to cross the edge betwixt East too West Germany.


Google took a dissimilar approach to their commemorations of the reunification of Germany. 25 years later the autumn of the Berlin Wall Google interviewed twenty-five young Germans to uncovering out what life is similar inward the novel Germany. Google's #Deutschland25 features twenty-five interviews amongst individuals who accept grown-up inward Germany's Generation Mauerfall.

In the interviews manager too journalist Bettina Blümner questions twenty-five extraordinary immature Germans virtually their lives, hopes too dreams for the future. #Deutschland25 also includes a prominent Google Map which allows y'all to persuasion comments that other Germans accept left on the website too to larn out your ain comments virtually life too the of import social issues inward Deutschland today.


The Berliner Morgenpost has also created a novel map of Berlin which reveals a novel dividing line of piece of job inward the city. How the S-Bahn Ring Divides the City is a map of the German linguistic communication working capital missive of the alphabet inward which the neighborhoods accept been colored to exhibit whether most of the inhabitants were born inward or exterior Berlin.

The map reveals that inside the S-Bahn telephone inward every neighborhood, except Neu-Templhof, the bulk of the residents were born exterior Berlin. Outside the S-Bahn telephone many of the neighborhoods are dominated past times native Berliners.


DataDraw is a JavaScript library for the Google Maps API which tin live on used to visualize too animate large amounts of information on a Google Map using a canvass layer.

You tin persuasion the library inward activity on this impressive Wind Visualisation map. The map simulates air current patterns on a styled Google Map. If y'all conduct the 'animated style' pick y'all tin persuasion a beautiful animated mistaken visualization of air current patterns. You tin adapt the direction too describe of the air current past times dragging the carmine arrow inward the round down air current control.

The £1000 Map

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel map from On Stride Financial shows you lot how long you lot could alive on £1000 inwards dissimilar countries inwards Europe. The Cost of Living map allows you lot to choose from a publish of European cities to thought a breakdown of how much it would toll to alive there.

According to the map the virtually expensive cities are Paris in addition to London. If you lot had £1000 you lot could alive inwards either metropolis for vi days in addition to xx hours. The cheapest house to alive on this map is Budapest, where £1000 volition concluding you lot l days in addition to eighteen hours.

When you lot choose a metropolis on the map you lot tin thought a breakdown of the daily toll of living inwards the city. The breakdown includes details on the toll of accommodation, nutrient & drink, go in addition to entertainment. I don't know how accurate the living toll estimates are for each city. However whoever designed this map is getting seriously ripped off when buying their groceries inwards London. They've plainly never heard of Lidl.

Mapping Novel York's Traffic Accidents

Earlier this twelvemonth the City of New York laid upwards a 'Vision Zero' goal, to halt traffic accident deaths too injuries on the city's roads. To assistance laissez passer on this aim the City released the Vision Zero consultation map which allowed New Yorkers to share their cognition of the urban marrow streets.

This consultation menses has forthwith ended merely yous tin notwithstanding purpose the map to browse through the over 10,000 comments submitted past times the public. The City of New York has forthwith released a novel map, Vision Zero View, which shows detailed data on traffic injury too fatality crashes inside New York.

The map has 2 top dog views; a visualization of New York's traffic accidents too a visualization of the city's attempts to brand the streets safer. The 'Crashes' sentiment allows users to visualize the locations of pedestrian,cycling too machine injuries too fatalities. This map sentiment includes a timeline which allows yous to filter the results shown on the map past times year.

The 'Street Design' sentiment allows users to explore closed to of the Vision Zero initiatives, such equally arterial ho-hum zones, speed humps too other major security projects designed to increase traffic security inwards the urban marrow of New York.

Mapping The Toronto Municipal Election

This Google Maps based 2014 Toronto Municipal Election map is a actually nicely designed visualization of the recent Toronto elections. The map allows y'all to explore how each electoral ward voted as well as besides provides information on a hit of socio-economic information nearly each ward as well as subdivision.

If y'all mouse-over a ward section on the map y'all tin sack sentiment a breakdown of the percent of votes cast for each candidate. The voting breakdown besides includes the percent of votes cast for each candidate inwards the whole election ward as well as inwards the whole city. This agency y'all tin sack easily compare the voting tape of each sub-division amongst the whole ward as well as amongst the overall results,

When y'all mouse-over a sub-division on the map y'all tin sack besides sentiment data, beneath the map, on the education, income as well as trouble of voters inwards the selected ward.

Mapping Goodall's Chimps

Google has created a actually prissy storey map exploring Jane Goodall's interrogation on chimps inwards Gombe Park, Tanzania. The map takes bully payoff of Google's recent Street View imagery captured inwards the national park.

The Gombe Park Street View Trek follows a directly familiar format for storey maps. To progress through the interactive you lot simply conk along scrolling downwards the page. As you lot scroll through the Trek you lot tin persuasion highlights from Google's Street View imagery inwards the commons in addition to acquire to a greater extent than nigh Goodall's groundbreaking research.

I don't know if I'm flattering myself but this novel interactive from Google seems to acquit a passing resemblance to the hold upwards of Street View in addition to Google Maps inwards my own Khmer Empire storey map. Google's map is apparently much to a greater extent than polished in addition to I bet it industrial plant on tablets in addition to phones (unlike my Central Khmer Empire map).

I created my Central Khmer Empire storey map using the Google Maps API amongst Waypoints.js. If you lot desire to create your ain storey map amongst the Google Maps API experience gratis to reuse the code from the Central Khmer Empire map.

If you lot similar looking at animals on Street View you lot should too depository fiscal establishment fit out my niggling Sea View Aquarium, featuring some of Google's recent Great Barrier Reef underwater Street View imagery.

Mapping Agricultural Landuse

One of my favorite maps from concluding yr was Bert Spaan's Netherland's Building Age Map. His map, created for the Waag website, visualized the historic catamenia of a staggering 9,866,539 buildings inwards the Netherlands.

All of the buildings inwards the Netherlands are colored on the map past times their historic catamenia of construction. You tin fifty-fifty click on whatsoever of the nearly ten 1000000 buildings to thought their exact yr of construction. When y'all conduct a edifice on the map y'all tin besides thought details close its solid reason surface area together with function.


Bert Spaan has instantly created roughly other map for Waag, which visualizes rural solid reason utilisation inwards the Netherlands afterward World War II. Mansholt, Landscape inwards Perspective is a even out map which explores how the rural landscape inwards the Netherlands changed during Sicco Mansholt's term equally Minister for Agriculture.

Sicco Mansholt was a Dutch pol who became Minister of Agriculture afterward the Second World War. While Minister of Agriculture Mansholt revolutionized agriculture inwards the Netherlands together with initiated solid reason reclamation inwards many areas of the country.

As y'all progress through the even out of Mansholt's initiatives equally Minister of Agriculture y'all tin thought maps of roughly of the rural landscapes which saw dramatic alter nether his term of office. The maps include a solid reason utilisation layer which let y'all to thought the agricultural or recreational utilisation for each packet of land. The solid reason parcels on the map are colored to betoken the type of crop which they are used for.

The Global Habitat Protection Map

The Terrestrial Habitat Protection map visualizes nationally-designated protected areas inwards countries or together with thus the world. You tin forcefulness out piece of employment the map to thought the habitat types available inwards whatsoever province together with explore which habitats are protected past times nationally-designated parks or conservation areas.

The Environmental Performance Index specifies xiv categories of climatic together with geographic communities called 'biomes'. If you lot click on a province on the map you lot tin forcefulness out thought what percent of each of these biomes are protected inwards the selected country. You tin forcefulness out equally good encounter what percent of whatsoever biome inwards each province is example of the global full for that biome.

The map equally good includes data on a pose out of creature species. Select i of the creature icons on the map together with you lot tin forcefulness out thought details almost its natural habitat together with the global threats to its habitat.

The Occupation Amongst Criminal Offence Maps

I've never been completely convinced of the legitimacy of criminal offense maps. There are obvious dangers of stigmatizing neighborhoods in addition to areas equally hot-spots of criminal offense based on criminal offense information which may non live on alone accurate. The accuracy of criminal offense information depends on a publish of factors, including victims reporting crime, the constabulary accurately recording the information in addition to the information beingness accurately plotted to the right location.

This terminal indicate was apparent inwards this Seismograph San Francisco Bike Theft Map. While creating the map Seismograph institute that at that topographic point was a hot-spot of bike thefts at 850 Bryant Street. It turns out that this is the address of a constabulary station. Stolen bikes amongst no place information were exactly plotted past times the constabulary at the address of the reporting constabulary station. 850 Bryant Street is hence the bike theft equivalent of Null Island.

I'm equally good fairly certain that nearly criminal offense heat-maps are non normalized for population density. The lawsuit is that criminal offense heat-maps frequently seem to closely resemble population maps. Areas amongst a high population density look to live on criminal offense hot-spots, although they actually only present that where at that topographic point are to a greater extent than people at that topographic point is proportionally to a greater extent than crime.

Brazilian criminal offense map Radarea has attempted to overcome exactly about of these work past times crowd-sourcing the reporting of crime. By allowing the victims of criminal offense to direct input the details in addition to locations of criminal offense they presumably promise to tape exactly about of the crimes non reported to the constabulary in addition to to eliminate exactly about of the errors inwards the recording of criminal offense data.

Radarea claim that the map volition assistance tourists visiting unfamiliar areas to position neighborhoods amongst high levels of criminal offense in addition to volition equally good assistance locals reveal the safest areas inwards their neighborhoods. These are exactly about bold claims. I'm non convinced that crowd-sourcing crimes volition render information that is whatsoever to a greater extent than accurate than official criminal offense data. It seems to me Radarea are running the same guide chances of providing inaccurate criminal offense maps which may good hand users an alone fake movie of the relative security of unlike locations.

Mapping Creature Tracks

Tracking Geese Migration Between Deutschland as well as Russia is a Google Map showing the flying paths of a release of Geese over a release of years.

If you lot choose a bird's advert from the map side-panel you lot tin sentiment the chosen bird's path on the map. The time-line beneath the map shows the dates for the visualized flying paths. You tin also click on the round down markers on the bird's path to uncovering out the appointment when the plane was at the recorded location.


Last Lord's Day a release of hackers took purpose inwards EcoHack World to practise or as well as thence interesting environmental visualizations. During the solar daytime CartodDB was used to practise a release of brute tracking maps.

The maps include this map of  Every Animal Tracked yesteryear WhaleNet. Using the map you lot tin choose to sentiment the tracks of a release of marine animals, including seals, porpoises, turtles as well as dolphins. You tin run into all 5 brute tracking maps on this CartoDB webpage.

Check out the animal tracking tag to sentiment other brute tracking maps, showing the movements of cats, wildebeest, polar bears, seagulls, monkeys, weasels as well as many other animals.

Map Lenses

Europe inwards 1914 together with 2014.

Esri's novel Lens map together with the rootage code for the prove is available here.


Some skilful examples of using a map lens to compare earlier together with afterward maps are available inwards the Smithsonian & Esri History Maps collection/

The Smithsonian & ESRI History Maps are a serial of maps combining historical maps from the David Rumsey collection alongside Esri's modern aerial imagery. Each of the maps includes a cracking magnifying drinking glass tool that allows you lot to thought the modern 24-hour interval aerial icon through the historical map. You tin laissez passer on notice fifty-fifty switch the views around together with compare the historical map on altitude of the modern aerial imagery.

The serial includes historical maps of a seat out of the United States of America cities, including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, LA together with Denver.

World Champion Geographer

I am the geographic champion of the world.

Okay, I'm not. That championship is currently held past times Frederick B. But I am the 5th highest scorer today on the Esri MapQuiz. Which is adept plenty for me.

MapQuiz is a your geographic literacy game which tests how good yous tin sack recognize satellite imagery from dissimilar locations unopen to the world. Log-in to MapQuiz amongst a Facebook draw of piece of job concern human relationship together with yous volition live on shown a serial of satellite images. All yous accept to produce is approximate the right place from 4 suggestions.

You are awarded points for each place that yous instruct right together with for how speedily yous tin sack answer. After yous accept completed half dozen rounds of the game yous tin sack compare your grade against today's pinnacle scores, the pinnacle scores recorded this month, the best this yr together with the all fourth dimension pinnacle scores.

I'm alarm yous though yous volition accept to become some to trounce me!

The Interactive Map Jigsaw

If you've been furiously clicking away trying to rhythm out your hi-score on MapQuiz then it could hold out fourth dimension to accept a break too endeavor out a to a greater extent than sedate too relaxed geo-game.

GeoJigsaw is an inspired interactive map jigsaw from Esri. The game allows you lot to choose jumbled upwardly maps from around the world. All you lot induce got to utilisation is to set all the jigsaw pieces dorsum together to consummate the map.

You tin choose map jigsaw puzzles to play yesteryear place or yesteryear difficulty level. If you lot can't uncovering a map that you lot similar don't worry. You tin only zoom inwards on whatsoever place inwards the globe too utilisation your ain map jigsaw puzzle.

The Google Maps Need To Motogp

MotoGP is the premier entitle of motorbike route racing. Hertz, this year's sponsors of MotoGP, has released a Google Maps based guide to some of the tracks on the 2014 MotoGP tour.

Beyond MotoGP is evidently meant to highlight Hertz' component division inward sponsoring MotoGP together with to assistance marketplace the Hertz brand. To hold out successful inward these goals notwithstanding the map needs to attract users together with to produce that it must render some form of useful service to its visitors.

Ostensibly together with then the map is a guide to 5 of the summit race tracks on the MotorGP tour together with to their surrounding areas. In this component division the map is reasonably successful. If yous direct a marking on the map yous tin non exclusively acquire virtually a track's history simply also expose useful data virtually how to catch the selected circuit location.

The map also provides useful data virtually the tourist attractions some each of the featured MotorGP tracks. Beyond MotoGP so provides a non bad service for whatever MotorGP fans who are planning a opor-garai some handle a MotoGP trial at whatever of the 5 mapped tracks.

However MotoGP is an 18-race competition. So yous would bring idea to hold out a genuinely effective guide for MotoGP fans together with then the map should embrace to a greater extent than than the 5 selected tracks. As a marketing tool it would for sure hold out to a greater extent than effective if it provided a comprehensive guide to all the tracks on the MotoGP the world entitle tour.

Mapping Back Upwardly For Obamacare

iSideWith is a website that tin terminate tell you lot which political political party you lot should support. iSideWith asks you lot a serial of questions on domestic, international too environmental issues too and therefore shows you lot whether you lot side nearly alongside the Democrats or Republicans (or other parties) on these issues.

iSideWith likewise purpose the information collected from these questions to render a breakdown on back upwards for a number of major issues. Part of the breakdown for each number is a Google Map showing back upwards or opposition for the number across the United States.

For example this Google Map shows nationwide Support for Obamacare based on users' answers on iSideWith. Overall the poll shows 45% supporting Obamacare too 52% inwards opposition. The map allows you lot to run into where back upwards too opposition is nearly strong, at state, county too urban heart level.

You tin terminate likewise stance the poll results too maps for a number of other social too political issues, including gay marriage, abortion too authorities spending.

How Walmart Conquered America

H5N1 novel CartoDB map visualizes how Walmart discovered America. Walmart Nation plots the historical opening of every Walmart shop together with reveals how the fellowship contributed to the kickoff map of the novel United Stores of America.

Walmart's perilous journeying started inward 1962 inward Rogers, AK. Their main objective was to explore together with map newly acquired territory, discovery a practical road across the Western one-half of the continent, together with constitute an American presence inward this novel territory earlier UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland together with other European powers tried to claim it.

Thanks to the heroic efforts of these retail pioneers every American tin instantly slumber soundly at nighttime inward the secure noesis that at that spot volition hold upwardly depression prices, always, when they awake.

Squatting Inwards Due East & W Berlin

West Berlin has a long tradition of civil, grassroots political action. One of the clearest demonstrations of this tradition is the good established squatter crusade inwards the city. After the Fall: Socio-Spatial Movements inwards East Berlin plots the place as well as meaning dates of civil activity inwards both East as well as West Berlin.

Significant instances of civil activity are plotted on the map using 2 colors. The yellowish markers present 'socio-spatial movements' from earlier the autumn of the Berlin Wall as well as the bluish markers those which occurred later the fall. The ruby-red trace of piece of job on the map shows the seat of the Berlin Wall.

The map demonstrates how earlier the collapse of the Berlin Wall this crusade of civil activity was largely confined to West Berlin. However since the reunification of Deutschland the eastern one-half of the metropolis has too seen a ascent inwards civil action, especially inwards the growing squatting movement.


The information for the After the Fall map comes from Berlin Besetzt. Berlin Besetzt is a map showing the locations of squats inwards Berlin from 1970 to the introduce day. You tin sentiment all the houses that bring been squatted inwards this menses or yous tin role the appointment slide command to sentiment the history of squatting inwards Berlin over the concluding few decades.

Using the appointment command it appears that 1981 was the golden historic menses for squatters inwards Berlin. This map too clearly shows the ascent of squatting inwards eastward Berlin later the autumn of the Berlin Wall. The map too reveals that Kreuzberg has remained a really pop expanse for Berlin squatters for to a greater extent than that xxx years.

The Dandy German Bakers Map

High German paper Zeit has decided to celebrate the tasty delights of the best High German bakeries amongst this German Bakers Map.

To assistance practice the map Zeit asked its readers to recommend their favorite local bakeries. They as well as thus used the Mapbox mapping platform to map all the bakeries inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany which received to a greater extent than than i recommendation from Zeit's readers. The bakeries are shown on the map amongst unlike colored markers. The darker the color of a bakery's marking as well as thus the to a greater extent than recommendations it received.

Users of the map tin teach into a post-code to persuasion their closest recommended bakeries. They tin too click on a baker's marking on the map to run into what Zeit's readers recommend you lot should purchase as well as swallow at the chosen bakery.

Crap On A Map

Apparently people defecating on the streets is a affair inwards San Francisco. At to the lowest degree it is a big plenty work for Jennifer Wong to intend it warrants its ain interactive map.

Jennifer has used San Francisco Department of Public Works information of sidewalk cleanings for 'human waste materials or urine' to create the (Human) Wasteland map. The map includes a steaming pile of heat-map thought of human waste materials inwards San Francisco, which simply powerfulness attention you lot avoid wading through human excrement on your side past times side trip some town.

The map makes role of the Google Maps Styled Maps characteristic to supply a context appropriate colored base of operations map. The same 'appropriate' colors are used inwards the rut map layer. If you lot desire you lot tin filter the crap on the map past times calendar month together with search the map past times address.

United States Arrest Rates

To illustrate a written report on the Racial Gap inwards U.S. Arrest Rates USA Today has created an interactive map which compares the arrest rates of dark together with white Americans across the USA.

You tin purpose the Compare Arrest Rates map to expose the arrest rates of white together with dark Americans past times constabulary departments throughout the United States. The markers on the map are colored blueish where at that spot is a larger disparity inwards the charge per unit of measurement of dark arrests together with greenish where at that spot is a larger disparity inwards the charge per unit of measurement of white arrests.

The information for the map comes from 2011 together with 2012 FBI arrest records.

The Bumps Of Novel York City

Many years agone I briefly worked equally a route surveyor. The project involved walking 5 to 10 miles of route a day, painstakingly criterion every route irregularity (e.g. potholes) as well as recording the information on a handheld computer. The information was as well as then used past times the local ascendancy to position the close damaged roads as well as schedule route repairs.

This was inwards the days earlier the availability of commercial GPS units thus everything had to last measured past times mitt as well as criterion wheel. These days I imagine the project could last done at i hundred times the speed alongside cars fitted alongside a GPS unit of measurement as well as an accelerometer. Or you lot could fifty-fifty practice it past times bike.

Varun Adibhatla has created an interesting visualization of this sort of route surface survey carried out using a cycle as well as an iPhone's accelerometer. Bumpiness inwards NYC shows the trail of a bicycle journeying inwards New York. The bike's runway on the map is colored past times 'bumpiness', alongside the close bumpy sections colored inwards red.


Many laptops these days too bring built-in accelerometers. The Quake-Catcher Network realized that they could practice the world’s largest as well as densest earthquake monitoring organization but past times using the information from accelerometers inwards the world's laptop computers.

The Quake-Catcher Network links participating laptops into a unmarried coordinated network that tin forcefulness out honor as well as analyze earthquakes faster as well as ameliorate than always before. QCN uses Google Maps to present the information collected from participating laptops as well as from participating desktop computers alongside USB sensors. The map too shows the latest USGS reported earthquakes.

Maps Of The Week

My favorite map this calendar week was this fun game from Esri. GeoJigsaw is an inspired interactive map jigsaw puzzle. The game allows y'all to select jumbled upward maps from around the world. All y'all cause got to practise is to seat all the jigsaw pieces dorsum together to consummate the map.

You tin laissez passer the axe select jigsaw map puzzles to play yesteryear place or yesteryear difficulty level. If y'all can't detect a map that y'all similar don't worry. You tin laissez passer the axe only zoom inwards on whatever place inwards the the world too practise your ain jigsaw map puzzle.


This calendar week Google released a actually overnice story map exploring Jane Goodall's enquiry on chimps inwards Gombe Park, Tanzania. The map takes groovy wages of Google's recent Street View imagery captured inwards the national park.

The Gombe Park Street View Trek follows a directly familiar format for story maps. To progress through the interactive y'all only continue scrolling downward the page. As y'all scroll through the Trek y'all tin laissez passer the axe sentiment highlights from Google's Street View imagery inwards the common too larn to a greater extent than well-nigh Goodall's groundbreaking research.


This Google Maps based 2014 Toronto Municipal Election map is a actually nicely designed visualization of the recent Toronto elections. The map allows y'all to explore how each electoral ward voted too likewise provides information on a arrive at of socio-economic information well-nigh each ward too subdivision.

If y'all mouse-over a ward section on the map y'all tin laissez passer the axe sentiment a breakdown of the per centum of votes cast for each candidate. The voting breakdown likewise includes the per centum of votes cast for each candidate inwards the whole election ward too inwards the whole city. This way y'all tin laissez passer the axe easily compare the voting tape of each sub-division alongside the whole ward too alongside the overall results,

When y'all mouse-over a sub-division on the map y'all tin laissez passer the axe likewise sentiment data, beneath the map, on the education, income too business of voters inwards the selected ward.

Wikipedia Oestrus Maps

Frankenplace is a 'thematic map search engine.' Which agency that yous tin post away role the map to exercise minute heat-maps for a make of words based on the words' frequency in over 1.6 1 K k articles on Wikipedia as well as online locomote spider web log entries.

For instance the oestrus map higher upward is the effect of typing 'mosque' into Frankenplace. If yous motion into 'mountain' instead as well as then yous volition function past times away a oestrus map that roughly resembles the location of mount ranges or so the world.

Frankenplace tin post away thus survive used to get an agreement of the spatial dynamics of a topic past times providing a oestrus map of the topic equally featured inward Wikipedia as well as locomote blogs. The site tin post away too survive used equally a search engine to uncovering relevant documents that march your search query.

For example, inward my search for 'mosques' I mightiness exclusively survive interested inward French mosques. I tin post away thus role the map to zoom inward on France. If I as well as then mouse-over Paris on the map the side-panel shows me a link to the Grand Mosque of Évry. I tin post away fifty-fifty read the Wikipedia for the Grand Mosque of Évry straight from the map.

Mapping Novel York Taxi Data

This yr at that topographic point has been a seat out of actually nifty mapped visualizations of New York taxi data. This latest map visualizes taxi traffic from JFK as well as LGA airports during the 2013 vacation flavor (Nov 15th to Dec 31st).

The NYC Taxi Holiday Visualization animates taxi journeys from New York's airports over the shape of a calendar month as well as half. As the animation plays y'all tin sack persuasion the animated tracks of thousands of private cab journeys taken from JFK as well as LGA airports to all parts of the city.

While the animation plays out on the map the side-panel keeps a running full of the seat out of taxi trips taken from each of the airports' terminals. H5N1 bar graph at the bottom of the map too reveals the seat out of taxi journeys taken on each day. The graph reveals the drib inwards flights during Thanksgiving as well as a distinct rising inwards traffic afterwards the vacation weekend every bit people wing dorsum into NYC, presumably afterwards visiting identify unit of measurement exterior of the city.


NYC Taxis: H5N1 Day inwards the Life is a MapBox visualization of the journeying of ane New York taxi over the shape of 24 hours.

The map animates ane New York taxi's road over the shape of ane day. As the animation plays the taxi's seat is shown yesteryear a yellowish circle map marker. All the rider journeys are added to the map alongside a bluish polyline. While the animation plays the map too keeps a running full of the cab's full seat out of passengers, fares as well as tips received.

Once y'all stimulate got viewed a 24-hour interval inwards the life of this New York taxi y'all tin sack select from roughly other ane of 30 cab journeys mapped over 24 hours.


Hubcab is a mapped visualization of 170 1000000 taxi trips over ane yr inwards New York City. Using the map it is possible to persuasion all pickup as well as drop-off points inwards the urban gist as well as to persuasion the seat out of trips taken betwixt 2 form out locations.

Locations that were used every bit taxi pickup points inwards the urban gist are shown every bit yellowish dots on the map as well as drop-off points are shown every bit bluish dots. It is too possible to refine the results displayed on the map yesteryear fourth dimension of day.

You tin sack persuasion the seat out of taxi journeys betwixt 2 unlike locations  by dropping 2 markers on the map. After y'all identify the markers on the map y'all tin sack encounter the seat out of taxi journeys taken inwards ane yr inwards both directions betwixt the 2 locations. You tin sack fifty-fifty refine the results yesteryear fourth dimension of 24-hour interval to explore when the almost journeys betwixt the 2 points are made at unlike times of the day.

The Rapid Beating Middle Of La

LA Metro Movement is an animated map of LA's Metro Rapid buses. The map shows the routes of LA's Rapid omnibus lines alongside the recorded locations of the city's buses beingness animated every bit they carry passengers across the city.

I don't know anything almost the creation of this map then I'm guessing that the map is using the place information from 1 or ii hours out of a unmarried day. If you lot follow a unmarried animated point on the map it doesn't look to locomote really far inwards each footstep of the animation. So unless it takes 24 hours to cross LA past times omnibus this map is providing a snapshot inwards fourth dimension of the city's omnibus network inwards action.

It's nevertheless a keen mapped visualization of transit information as well as a keen demo of CartoDB's Torque library inwards action.

Super Mario World

If you've e'er wondered how Mario together with Luigi grapple to navigate therefore effortlessly unopen to the Mushroom Kingdom together with Dinosaur Land together with therefore yous require to banking corporation fit out this Super Mario map from Duncan Graham. This interactive map reimagines the the world every 2nd an 8-bit map inward the fashion of Nintendo's classic game, consummate amongst golden coins together with mushrooms.

Accompanying the map is a peachy 'how-to' guide on how the map was created with Mapbox Studio. It's worth reading the article if yous desire to larn nearly importing province or H2O root files into Mapbox Studio, how to add together custom elements to your map together with how to lodge layers.


If vintage calculator games don't float your boat together with therefore yous mightiness prefer this Dot Map yesteryear Saman Bemel Benrud.

You've in all probability seen point maps earlier which visualize information on a map using differently sized or differently colored dots. This map takes that concept to the side yesteryear side phase yesteryear representing the underlying map features information every 2nd dots.

The effect mightiness non move much role every 2nd a map. But every 2nd a beautifully abstract interactive point icon it industrial plant simply fine.

The Google Maps Virtual Post Service Office

The French national post service service, La Poste, is using Google Maps as well as Street View inwards its latest online marketing campaign. La Poste - Ca Envoie is a fun trivial postal delivery simulator which allows y'all to nigh post a let on of airheaded objects to whatever address.

Using Ca Envoie y'all tin nigh drib a Sumo wrestler, a mermaid, a unicorn, a lumberjack, or to a greater extent than or less goose pâté onto whatever address inwards the the world which has Street View imagery. Just teach into an address as well as selection ane of the 5 objects as well as y'all tin sentinel a curt animation of your object falling onto your address using Google Maps satellite imagery.


Your chosen object volition as well as thence hold out shown landing at your selected address using the Street View imagery from that location. If y'all are vegetarian y'all mightiness desire to skip the pâté animation. This trivial pic features a goose crashing into your street earlier beingness transformed into the goose pâté.

If y'all sign into Ca Envoie amongst your Facebook trouble organisation human relationship y'all tin post your created Google Maps postal animation to your Facebook wall.

The Rand Mcnally Trip Planner

Rand McNally Trip Maker is a novel interactive route trip planning tool. Using the map yous tin forcefulness out boot the bucket turn-by-turn driving directions for your trip amongst the choice to notice interesting places to catch along the route.

To create a route trip amongst Trip Maker yous exactly postulate to come inwards a starting location together with your destination. You tin forcefulness out add together extra stops to your trip only yesteryear selecting the 'Add Stop' button. Your novel terminate volition so survive added to your to a trip automatically, inwards the location that best minimizes your full driving distance.

You tin forcefulness out suit the route of your trip only yesteryear dragging the route draw of piece of occupation roughly on the map. If yous wishing to add together a waypoint to a route yous tin forcefulness out thus exactly drag together with driblet the draw of piece of occupation on your desired location together with the the route volition automatically update.

If yous wishing to brand some pit-stops along your route yous tin forcefulness out role the 'Search on My Way' option. This allows yous to search for rest-stops together with points of involvement along your route. You tin forcefulness out fifty-fifty define how far yous are prepared to deviate from your route for interesting places to catch yesteryear entering the disclose of miles.

When yous are happy amongst your planned route trip yous tin forcefulness out e-mail together with export your trips to whatsoever Rand McNally GPS device.

The Solar Eclipse Map

The Solar Eclipse Finder is an Esri map that displays the path of by together with futurity solar eclipses for whatsoever place on Earth.

The tool couldn't last simpler to use. Just click on the map together with by solar eclipses at the selected place are shown on the map inward greenish together with futurity eclipse are shown inward blue. If y'all mouse-over the path of a solar eclipse y'all tin sentiment details inward the map side-bar.

The details on each eclipse include the date, fourth dimension together with the duration of the solar eclipse. The Solar Eclipse Finder includes the paths of 905 solar eclipses from 1601 to 2200.

How To Brand A Rent Map

Last twelvemonth the Financial Times created a prissy interactive map visualizing the toll of renting inwards London. The London Renting Crisis map allows Londoners to sentiment a oestrus map of where they tin afford to rent inwards the working capital alphabetic lineament based on their annual salary.

The map includes a slide command which allows you lot to conform the annual salary level. As you lot conform the salary the map automatically updates to present where you lot tin in addition to can't afford to rent a room inwards a London flat.


The Berliner Morgenpost has straightaway released the origin code of a like map for Berlin. Titel der Anwendung recreates the rent map of London but for Berlin, using the Leaflet mapping platform.

The Berlin map uses random information every bit it is but a demo of an interactive oestrus map using Leaflet in addition to TopoJSON. The origin code for the map is available on GitHub on an MIT license. You tin thus operate the Berliner Morgenpost's map library to practise your ain adjustable oestrus map for anywhere inwards the world, using your ain TopoJSON for the shaded polygon areas.