Deforestation Leads To Slavery

Maps tin hold upward real powerful tools inwards information visualization. Especially when y'all desire to exhibit a correlation betwixt 2 unlike data-sets. This is truthful of this map of Forced Labor inwards Amazonia.

The 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 project convey been rescued together with areas suffering from deforestation appears to hold upward real clear on the map.

The map real powerfully reinforces the human relationship betwixt the destruction of the pelting wood inwards Brazil together with social degradation from forced labor.

Deforestation Leads To Slavery

Maps tin hold upward real powerful tools inwards information visualization. Especially when y'all desire to exhibit a correlation betwixt 2 unlike data-sets. This is truthful of this map of Forced Labor inwards Amazonia.

The 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 project convey been rescued together with areas suffering from deforestation appears to hold upward real clear on the map.

The map real powerfully reinforces the human relationship betwixt the destruction of the pelting wood inwards Brazil together with social degradation from forced labor.

Mapping Cardinal Banking Concern Involvement Rates

Central Bank involvement rates inward virtually major western countries are at historic lows equally governments drive to get their economies past times encouraging businesses in addition to individuals non to salvage in addition to to pass or invest their coin instead.

Folha de S,Paulo has created a Google Map to demonstrate the involvement rates of key banks across the globe. In Nippon the involvement charge per unit of measurement is 0%, piece inward Brasil it is 11%. The Folha de S.Paulo oestrus map provides a quick visualization of the involvement rates inward dissimilar countries in addition to y'all tin sack likewise click on private countries to stance their exact rate.

The 'Ranking Global' link likewise provides a ranking of countries, alongside the countries alongside the highest involvement rates at the meridian of the listing in addition to the lowest rates at the bottom.

Via: Visual Loop

Building The Basis Loving Cup On Street View

As a quick follow-up to my previous ship service on Hacking Historic Street View - hither is to a greater extent than or less other demo. This Street View slideshow uses Google Maps historic street sentiment imagery to demo the structure of the 2014 World Cup Stadium inward Fortaleza, Brazil.

World Cup Street View animates through vi Street View images of the stadium, nether construction, which Google collected over xviii months.

Building The The World Loving Cup On Street View

Over the concluding few days I've been playing amongst the novel historic Street View images on Google Maps. It is possible to purpose the novel historic Street View images amongst the Google Maps API if y'all purpose the Street View image's panoID.

I've position together a demo showing how the historic Street View images tin terminal survive used amongst the Google Maps API. This Historic Street View demo uses the HTML5 'input type="range"' slide command to permit y'all to manually browse through Google Maps' historic Street View images of the 2014 World Cup stadium inwards Fortaleza, Brazil.

Unfortunately the slide command is non supported past times Internet Explorer yet. IE users volition instead run into an option link to thought a slideshow of the historic images.

Visual Loop's Maps Of The Week

Visual Loop's weekly round-up of Digital Cartography is out. There are roughly swell interactive maps inwards this week's collection, including a few which regular readers of Google volition recognize. I too actually similar 2 of the maps I hadn't seen before, 1 from Brazil in addition to the other from Argentina.


In Argentine Republic the Electoral Nacional has released a listing of all world in addition to mortal political donations to the 4 principal political parties. Andy Dow has used the information to exercise the 2013 Private Contributions Map, a map showing the locations of over 4,800 political donors.

The donors are displayed on the map amongst circular map markers. The markers are sized inwards proportion to the size of the donation in addition to colored to correspond the political political party donated to.


In Brazil Chega de Fiu Fiu is a crusade against sexual harassment. The crusade has released a Chega de Fiu Fiu Google Map inwards an endeavour to map the close troublesome in addition to unsafe places for women inwards Brazil.

Women who convey suffered harassment or convey witnessed sexual harassment tin part their experiences yesteryear adding a mark to the map.

The Basis Loving Cup Inward Maps

The 2014 World Cup looks educate to piece of occupation out the nearly mapped football game tournament inwards history. The tournament itself volition laid out on Th inwards Brasil only we're having an early on kick-off hither at Google amongst a solar daytime dedicated to World Cup maps.

Esri accept got the ball rolling yesteryear releasing no less than half dozen World Cup related Story Maps, exploring World Cup history, the 2014 teams too players too the 2014 World Cup stadiums inwards Brasil. Esri's 2014 World Cup Maps includes World Cup Venues, World Cup Dashboard, World Cup History, Belo Horizonte Restaurants, Golden Greats too Team USA Roster.

The Golden Greats map is 1 of the to a greater extent than interesting maps inwards this piffling collection of Story Maps. The map shows the best players inwards previous World Cups. You tin direct to stance the Golden Ball (the histrion voted the best histrion inwards the tournament), the Golden Boot (the highest scorer) too the Golden Glove (the histrion voted the best goalkeeper) inwards all the previous World Cups.

The map suggests that if you lot desire to win a histrion honor at the World Cup therefore you lot request to play for a South American or European team.

The World Cup History map lets you lot browse through the results of every World Cup since 1930. Select a tournament from the map sidebar too you lot tin therefore click on a participating province on the map to stance all the results for that province inwards the selected tournament.

The World Cup Venues map is an interesting tour of the Brazilian stadiums hosting the 2014 World Cup matches. Unfortunately this map is allow downward a fighting yesteryear Esri's satellite stance imagery which hasn't quite kept upwards amongst the footstep of evolution for the World Cup. Most of the satellite views used hither exclusively demo the stadiums at diverse stages during their construction.

Health Inwards The Amazon

In the Amazon a large proportion of Brazilians don't convey access to the mains H2O provide together with solely convey the nearly rudimentary of sewage systems. The combination of no slowly access to build clean drinking H2O together with miserable sewage agency that the part suffers higher incidence rates than the residue of Brazil for a release of diseases.

Infoamazonia has released an interactive map, Visaguas, which examines the availability of build clean drinking H2O & sewage inwards Amazon municipalities together with the incident rates of a release of diseases. If y'all purpose the tabs, inwards a higher house the map, y'all tin conduct to stance Water Supply, Diseases or Access to Sewage on the map.

When y'all selecting either of the 3 principal categories y'all tin together with then conduct from a release of subcategories. For example, if y'all conduct diseases y'all tin together with then conduct the incident rates, per municipality, for a release of unlike diseases, including Cholera, Dengue Fever together with Typhoid.

Via: Visual Loop

The Occupation Amongst Criminal Offence Maps

I've never been completely convinced of the legitimacy of criminal offense maps. There are obvious dangers of stigmatizing neighborhoods in addition to areas equally hot-spots of criminal offense based on criminal offense information which may non live on alone accurate. The accuracy of criminal offense information depends on a publish of factors, including victims reporting crime, the constabulary accurately recording the information in addition to the information beingness accurately plotted to the right location.

This terminal indicate was apparent inwards this Seismograph San Francisco Bike Theft Map. While creating the map Seismograph institute that at that topographic point was a hot-spot of bike thefts at 850 Bryant Street. It turns out that this is the address of a constabulary station. Stolen bikes amongst no place information were exactly plotted past times the constabulary at the address of the reporting constabulary station. 850 Bryant Street is hence the bike theft equivalent of Null Island.

I'm equally good fairly certain that nearly criminal offense heat-maps are non normalized for population density. The lawsuit is that criminal offense heat-maps frequently seem to closely resemble population maps. Areas amongst a high population density look to live on criminal offense hot-spots, although they actually only present that where at that topographic point are to a greater extent than people at that topographic point is proportionally to a greater extent than crime.

Brazilian criminal offense map Radarea has attempted to overcome exactly about of these work past times crowd-sourcing the reporting of crime. By allowing the victims of criminal offense to direct input the details in addition to locations of criminal offense they presumably promise to tape exactly about of the crimes non reported to the constabulary in addition to to eliminate exactly about of the errors inwards the recording of criminal offense data.

Radarea claim that the map volition assistance tourists visiting unfamiliar areas to position neighborhoods amongst high levels of criminal offense in addition to volition equally good assistance locals reveal the safest areas inwards their neighborhoods. These are exactly about bold claims. I'm non convinced that crowd-sourcing crimes volition render information that is whatsoever to a greater extent than accurate than official criminal offense data. It seems to me Radarea are running the same guide chances of providing inaccurate criminal offense maps which may good hand users an alone fake movie of the relative security of unlike locations.

The Hyundai Mill Street Sentiment Tour

You tin accept a fully guided tour of the CAOA Hyundai manufacturing flora inwards Brazil thank you lot to a novel narrated Street View tour of the factory

Fabrica Hyundaicaoa takes you lot on a tour of the factory, allowing you lot to follow the fully automated journeying of the cars every mo they become from the torso store to the pigment shop, through trim back too survive to the examination center. The whole tour is narrated (in Portuguese) too plays automatically, too hence all you lot take away create is sit down dorsum too watch.

If you lot desire you lot tin interrupt the tour at whatsoever signal too accept your ain path through the manufacturing flora past times using the arrows on the Google Maps Street View imagery. You tin too purpose the timeline at the bottom of the page to rapidly navigate to dissimilar parts of the factory.