The Maps Of The Week

We've featured a lot of Carto DB Torque powered maps inwards the final month. This animated map of the geography of 400,000 hours of TV intelligence is with the almost interesting.

The Internet Archive geo-coded 400,000 hours of the United States of America tv set intelligence in addition to mapped the locations mentioned inwards each report. The Animated Geography of TV News map animates through the locations mentioned inwards the intelligence providing a swell visualization of the countries in addition to areas that have the almost attending in addition to the areas which are neglected past times American intelligence (sorry Africa).


I dear the slide command inwards the maps featured inwards this Urban Institute interactive. Washington DC - Our Changing City is a written report on the population changes happening inwards Washington DC.

The interactive written report includes a serial of maps comparison population in addition to demographic changes inwards the American uppercase betwixt 2000 in addition to 2010. Each map includes a slide command that allows the user to swipe across the map to compare the differences inwards point maps from the twelvemonth 2000 in addition to 2010.

I've seen this type of slide command used earlier to compare earlier in addition to afterward photographs. For example, I used a like command to compare aerial imagery from earlier in addition to afterward the 2011 tornado inwards Tuscaloosa. However this is the showtime fourth dimension I've seen a slide command used to compare 2 unlike map layers.


Johannes Gutenberg's excogitation of mechanical movable type printing inwards the 15th century was belike the almost of import regain inwards the modern age. Gutenberg's excogitation arguably kick-started the Renaissance in addition to undoubtedly led to the spread of learning with the full general population inwards Europe.

The Atlas of Early Printing is a Google Map charting the spread of printing, from Gutenberg's showtime movable type printer inwards 1452 inwards Mainz to the residual of Europe past times the cease of the 15th century. The map includes a timeline that allows you lot to visualize the rising of printing presses throughout Europe over the course of study of the 15th century.


If you lot are bored at schoolhouse don't only sit down at that spot mindlessly staring into space, decease your telephone out in addition to percentage your boredom with the residual of the world.

The Real Time #Bored inwards School Map is a real-time map showing Tweets past times schoolkids who are bored inwards class. Since the map went alive on the 16th Dec at that spot has been over 43,000 bored Tweets. That is a lot of bored students.

As good every bit the map of alive Tweets the app keeps a running full of the seat out of 'bored' messages in addition to a alive business nautical chart of the seat out of Tweets made over the final hour.