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.