The Digital Maps Of The Week

NYC Taxis: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day inward the Life is a MapBox visualization of the journeying of i New York taxi over the variety out of 24 hours.

The map animates the taxi's road over the variety out of i day. As the animation plays the taxi's pose is shown past times a xanthous circle map marker. All the rider journeys are added to the map alongside a bluish polyline. While the animation plays the map equally good keeps a running full of the cab's full publish of passengers, fares together with tips received.

Once you lot convey viewed a twenty-four hr menstruum inward the life of this New York taxi you lot tin conduct from some other i of xxx cab journeys mapped over 24 hours.


Messages inward the Deep is a fascinating Google Map which allows you lot to explore the history of the increase of the undersea fibre eye network some the globe since 1989.

The map allows you lot to stance the undersea cable network for whatever year, or you lot tin animate the map to stance how this global network has grown since 1989. The map equally good allows you lot to refine the cables shown past times cable owner.

You tin click on whatever of the cables displayed on the map to stance it's length, it's kickoff yr of functioning together with the cable's owners.


The Sydney Morning Herald has created an interesting mapped analysis of the languages spoken inward the city. The map shows the top non-English languages spoken inward each of the city's suburbs, the density of English linguistic communication equally a kickoff linguistic communication together with the linguistic multifariousness inward each neighbourhood.

Sydney's Melting Pot of Language reveals that due east Asians predominantly alive inward the due north shore, spell Standard Arabic speakers dominate the western suburbs. Over 250 unlike languages are spoken inward the metropolis together with well-nigh twoscore percent beak a non-English linguistic communication equally their kickoff tongue.

Accompanying the mapped visualization is a bar graph showing the numbers of speakers of each of the non-English languages spoken inward the city. The graph groups the languages into global regions exactly you lot tin select whatever of the portion bars to stance a per centum breakdown of the private languages.