The Maps Of The Week

This Geologic Map of the Grand Canyon wins the prize for the most gorgeous map of the week. The map uses the Leaflet mapping platform alongside USGS information to create an interactive geologic map of the Grand Canyon.

If you lot mouse-over the map the make-up of the geologic strata at that place is automatically displayed on the map. If you lot click on the map it scrolls off the page to acquaint a to a greater extent than detailed breakdown of the geographic strata at the selected location.


I similar the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland as well as I similar Russia. But which is better? There's alone 1 agency to to notice out ...

MapFight!

MapFight is a fun lilliputian application that allows you lot to compare the size of whatsoever 2 states, countries or continents. Just bespeak 2 locations from the 2 drop-down menus as well as 2 unlike colored maps volition seem superimposed on each other.

The maps render a handy visual guide to the size of the chosen 2 countries. MapFight likewise tells you lot how many times bigger the larger reason is inwards comparing to the smaller country.


Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent inquiry newspaper claiming a link betwixt the measles vaccination as well as autism proved to survive an international wellness disaster. Many parents or as well as so the globe refused the vaccination for their children leading to a ascent inwards measles inwards many countries.

While this map of Vaccine Preventable Outbreaks starts inwards 1998 as well as thus doesn't demonstrate the virtually immediate huge increase inwards measles later Wakefield's newspaper it does demonstrate some balance detrimental effects of the paper, equally many parents are yet refusing to accept their children immunized against measles.

Of course of report the ascent inwards measles is non the alone tragedy visualized past times this Google Map. The map plots global outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, as well as other diseases that are easily preventable past times cheap as well as effective vaccines.


I'm a large fan of the e'er fascinating Etymology Maps thread on Reddit. The thread features give-and-take maps, maps that visualize 1 mutual give-and-take inwards all the unlike languages of Europe. For example, 'Christmas' inwards European languages, 'Meat' inwards European languages as well as 'Clock' inwards European languages.

James Trimble is likewise a large fan of the Reddit thread as well as patch browsing the maps had a flake of an epiphany. He realized that you lot could purpose the Google Translate API alongside D3 to create an interactive Etymology Map that allows you lot to visualize whatsoever give-and-take that you lot desire inwards all the unlike European languages.

The termination is the European Word Translator. H5N1 map that uses the Google Translate API to demonstrate you lot the European translations of whatsoever word. Just type a give-and-take into the search box as well as you lot tin post away thought on the D3 map all the translations of the give-and-take inwards all the European countries.