The Maps Of The Week

Google Night Walk is an amazing narrated Street View tour of Marseilles at night. Google Night Walk takes you lot on an immersive journeying through the lively Cours Julien neighbourhood of Marseille. During this Street View tour of night-time Marseilles you lot are treated to an well narrated guide past times Julie in addition to Christophe, ii urban storytellers, who help explicate the living history of the city.

To navigate the night-time panoramic imagery of Google Night Walk follow the blueish draw of piece of occupation inwards the Street View, piece you lot heed to Julie in addition to Christophe's narrated guide. You tin also deviate from the narrated guide at anytime in addition to explore the metropolis nether your ain steam past times next the dotted paths off of the principal tour.

Google Night Walk is a articulation projection past times Google Creative Labs in addition to 72andSunny. The narrator, Julie Muer, is an urban storyteller who walks the streets of Marseilles, collecting the sounds in addition to voices of the city.


Maps tin last really powerful tools inwards information visualization. Especially when you lot desire to exhibit a correlation betwixt ii dissimilar data-sets. This is truthful of this map of Forced Labor inwards Amazonia.

This visualization overlays information relating to the place of rescued slaves and deforestation inwards the Amazon on a map of Brazil. The correlation betwixt locations where those inwards forced labor direct keep been rescued in addition to areas suffering from deforestation appears to last really clear on the map.

The map really powerfully reinforces the human relationship betwixt the destruction of the pelting wood inwards Brazil in addition to social degradation from forced labor.


Global Pulse has released an impressive interactive presentation exploring how the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals are beingness discussed on social media.

In the twelvemonth 2000 the UN agreed to laid upwards 8 Millennium Development Goals. The 8 MDGs were meant to render a framework from which to halve poverty approximately the globe past times 2015. As that deadline approaches Global Pulse and the Millennium Campaign has released Unglobal Pulse, to explore how dissimilar countries direct keep been discussing topics related to these goals on Twitter.

This interactive visualization shows the xx countries which direct keep proportionately tweeted the most virtually each topic. The visualization includes a great interactive globe in addition to a Google Map, both of which let you lot to explore Twitter messages posted virtually the MDG goals approximately the world.