The Maps Of The Week

On Apr 9th, 1948 inwards Bogotá, Colombia, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala, the Liberal leader as well as presidential candidate, was assassinated. In reply to his assassination massive riots broke out inwards the city. The riots of Apr ninth left 3,000 to 5,000 dead as well as thousands injured, alongside much of downtown Bogotá destroyed.

The History of Bogatazo is a even out map which recounts the assassination of Gaitán as well as the resulting uprising inwards Bogotá. The impressive visual aesthetic of this map is created through the role of custom vintage style map tiles, a careful attending to especial inwards the map markers & timeline icons as well as inwards the decorative corner images.

As yous progress through the timeline the map automatically updates to demo the of import events of the day, alongside photos as well as text explaining each mapped event. The map is available inwards both English linguistic communication as well as Castilian versions.


Washington DC's ShotSpotter arrangement is a network of over 300 acoustic sensors that are used to expose the audio of gunfire inwards the metropolis as well as triangulate the place of each shooting. The Urban Institute has used the information from the ShotSpotter arrangement to map gunfire incidents which took house close Washington DC schools during the 2011–12 schoolhouse year.

Mapping Gunshots Near DC Schools plots schools inwards Washington DC as well as incidents of gunfire on the same map. The schoolhouse map markers are color-coded to demo schools that were inside 500 feet of a gunshot, 1,000 feet as well as those that were farther than 1,000 feet from a shooting incident. The map also allows yous to plow off gunshot incidents which took house exterior the fourth dimension of normal schoolhouse hours.


The Berliner Morgenpost's Fußballkarte shows where the registered supporters of eight of the xviii Bundesliga football game clubs live.

Fußballkarte (BETA) shades each neighborhood inwards FRG based on the monastic state alongside the close registered supporters inwards that neighborhood. If yous mouse-over a neighborhood yous tin john stance the release of registered supporters for each of the eight clubs.

As good equally the Bundesliga Fußballkarte at that topographic point are also localized Berlin as well as Hamburg versions of the map. Hamburger Fußballkarte is a map of Hamburg showing where HSV as well as St. Pauli convey the close fans inwards the city. The Berliner Fußballkarte shows the registered supporters of Berlin's summit 2 football game clubs, Hertha Berlin as well as FC Union Berlin.