The Best Maps Of The Week

Last week's United Nations climate alter acme inward New York seems to convey led to a ascension inward the global output of environs maps. This calendar week iii environmental maps actually caught my eye.

The Changing Global Emissions Map and the FFDAS Map  are ii nicely designed maps which visualize CO₂ emissions closed to the world. Using either of the maps you lot tin uncovering the carbon emissions of whatsoever province closed to the world.

This calendar week equally good saw the unloose of the Carbon Footprint Map, which visualizes the average annual describe of piece of employment solid carbon footprint of zip code areas inward the United States. The map reveals a clear pattern inward large cities, which shows that those living inward the oculus of cities convey a lower describe of piece of employment solid carbon footprint than those living inward urban gist suburbs.


This calendar week I was equally good impressed past times this campus map of Essex University. In detail this map has a non bad management service, which provides directions betwixt whatsoever ii campus buildings.

The Essex University campus map, WAI2Go, non alone looks beautiful it equally good has a set out of actually useful navigation features. The custom built directions service tin render directions betwixt whatsoever ii points on campus. You tin fifty-fifty asking the 'shortest route', a 'step gratuitous route' or an 'indoor road (where possible).

Another non bad characteristic of the Essex University campus map is its indoor maps. Select the 'campus overview' selection too you lot tin sentiment indoor map plans for dissimilar buildings too fifty-fifty the dissimilar flooring levels inward each building.

Combine this amongst the directions service too you lot tin rapidly abide by your road betwixt whatsoever ii rooms on campus. Click on a room too you lot tin  select 'directions to' or 'directions from' this room. I actually similar how the management service manages to navigate users betwixt dissimilar flooring levels on their journey.


There are 28 megacities inward the world, cities amongst a population inward excess of 10 million. This Esri map looks at the increment of x of these megacites closed to the globe over the final century.

The Age of Megacities maps the increment of x global megacities past times examining the expanding urban footprint of each urban gist over the years. For each of the megacities you lot tin sentiment a serial of map overlays, showing the size of the urban gist at dissimilar times inward the final ane hundred years or so.

For representative the map of Chicago allows you lot to sentiment the city's urban extent inward 1929, 1954, 1972 too inward 2014. It is so possible to sentiment how Chicago has grown since 1929. As good equally Chicago, You tin equally good role the map to visualize the increment of Tokyo, Shanghai, United Mexican States City, Sao Paulo, Lagos, Los Angeles, Paris, London too Johannesburg,