The Air Current Has Landed

I'm certain you lot get got all seen earth.nullschool.net's gorgeous animated globe visualizing conditions conditions roughly the world. Esri has immediately taken the same conditions information from the Global Forecast System used inward the map in addition to created Windy-JS.


Windy-JS re-purposes the conditions information in addition to thence that it tin last overlaid inward a sheet chemical share on tiptop of a diversity of mapping APIs. Esri has created a demonstrate map amongst Windy-JS, Wind Animation, which allows you lot to stance global air current conditions animated on a slippy map.

Historical Maps Of 3 Cities

Chris Olsen has used Esri Maps to exercise a serial of interesting historical map interfaces for Toronto, Cleveland in addition to Pittsburgh. The map for each metropolis includes a timeline business office that allows users to persuasion historical maps of each metropolis over the decades.


Toronto Historic Maps presents a serial of historical maps of the Canadian city. The earliest map is the 1858 Boulton Atlas of the City of Toronto. The map besides allows yous to explore Goad burn insurance maps from 1880, 1889, 1913 & 1924 in addition to includes maps from 1818, 1842 in addition to aerial photographs from 1947.

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Cleveland Historic Maps features a position out of historical maps from the Cleveland Public Library collection. My favorite inwards the collection is the 1852 Harris Blackmore map. You tin besides persuasion historical Cleveland maps from 1874, 1881, 1898, 1912 in addition to 1920.


Pittsburgh Historic Maps features a serial of historic maps of Pittsburgh, dating dorsum to 1835. The map besides includes historical aerial photograph maps from 1939, 1957 in addition to 2005.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 position out of markers on the map let the user to larn to a greater extent than nearly historical landmarks inwards the city, using information from the National Registry of Historic Places in addition to the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation.

Mapping London's Cholera Outbreak

Sooner or afterwards all online mapping platforms must travel used to recreate John Snow's 1854 point map of cholera deaths inwards London's Soho.

Snow plotted the deaths caused yesteryear cholera around Broad Street inwards Soho together with the place of 11 H2O pumps used yesteryear the locals. The distribution of the dots helped Snow notice that cholera occurred close oftentimes amid those who drank from the Broad Street H2O pump.

Snow's map helped to disprove the thence pop theory that diseases such every bit cholera together with bubonic plague were air borne together with spread yesteryear 'bad air'. These days John Snow's map seems to travel close used yesteryear neo-geographers to examination the capabilities of online mapping platforms.

This Esri map of John Snow's Map is a prissy illustration of how John Snow's information tin move travel used every bit information layers on a digital map. John Snow's Map uses an overlay of Snow's master map every bit 1 layer. The locations of the H2O pumps are available inwards some other layer together with the locations of the recorded deaths has been added every bit even thence some other layer.

For expert mensurate the map's creator has likewise added a Flickr layer to the map thence that yous tin move thought photos of the John Snow pub, the Broad Street H2O meat together with the John Snow plaque on Broad Street.

If yous desire to exercise your ain version of John Snow's map thence yous tin move catch the information inwards a break of formats from Robin's Blog. Robin's Blog has geo-coded the locations of the H2O pumps together with cholera deaths together with provides options to download the information every bit raster files, KML files or inwards a Google Fusion Table.

Football Causes Cancer

Supporting a football game social club is a lifetime commitment. Your squad must come upward earlier everything in addition to anyone else inwards your life, whether that hold upward kids, partner or career. Your team's refer must hold upward the concluding words that you lot gasp amongst your dying breath.¹

One pop chant amongst football game fans across the footing is:

"I'm Arsenal (replace amongst the refer of your ain club) till I die."

Chris Cook of the BBC has decided to own got this football game vocal literally in addition to explore simply how long football game fans inwards England in addition to Wales own got committed to back upward their local team. In Life expectancy: Which football game fans are Premier League? Chris looks at the life expectancy of football game fans for each squad inwards England.

To function out the life expectancy of football game fans Chris looked at the areas some the grounds of football game clubs, calculating the life expectancy of the closest 100,000 men living inwards the vicinity of the stadium.

Kenneth Field has taken Chris's inquiry in addition to created a map showing how long fans of the diverse clubs inwards England in addition to Wales tin hold off to live. Football till [they] die shows an interpolated surface of life expectancy inwards England in addition to Wales. You tin click on each of the club's markers on the map to persuasion the life expectancy of fans, the club's ranking inwards the league of life expectancy, the per centum of fat fans in addition to the per centum of the team's fans who are binge drinkers.

Footnotes

¹ Unless you lot back upward Chelsea of course. If you lot back upward Chelsea you lot are allowed to back upward the social club alone during periods of success in addition to back upward other teams during the dry out years.
² I used The Daily Mail inquiry method to determine whether football game causes cancer or non (N.B. I made it up).

Minard Menstruum Maps

There are numerous ways of visualizing information on maps. Heat maps, scatterplots, point maps in addition to scaled map markers are all pop methods of geographically visualizing information volumes. One method that seems far less pop is the period of time map, equally popularized yesteryear the British economical cartographer Charles Joseph Minard.

I bring seen a expose of attempts to recreate Minard's famous period of time map of Napolean's March on Moscow. However I can't retrieve seeing period of time maps beingness used inwards many other contexts inwards the footing of interactive maps.

This Esri Story Map of Minard's March on Moscow is a corking narrated map of the of import events during Napolean's armed forces campaign. Unfortunately in that place seems to hold upward a põrnikas inwards the map that prevents the map tiles beingness shown when the map is zoomed out. This agency that yous bring to pop off on zooming inwards on the map to persuasion the map tiles.

If yous desire to run across a zoomed out mapped visualization of Minards' period of time nautical chart yous tin banking corporation fit out Napoleon's March. This Leaflet reworking of Minard's period of time map is a skilful essay at an interactive map visualization of Napoleon's footing forces movements in addition to dwindling size. Unfortunately this map lacks Minard's temperature nautical chart that visualized the freezing temperatures faced yesteryear Napoleon's footing forces equally they pushed eastwards.


Charles Joseph Minard likewise created a period of time map of British coal exports inwards the twelvemonth 1864. This Esri map is a faithful interactive reproduction of this lesser known Minard period of time map. English Coal Exports 1864 shows the countries where U.K. exported coal to in addition to the quantities exported to each country. The width of the lines on the map stand upward for the quantities of coal exports for each business office of the route.

Mapping Nato Operations

Since 1949 NATO has been working to preclude conflicts or as well as thus the basis through political diplomacy as well as through armed services operations.

H5N1 novel map, called NATO on Duty, shows the locations of NATO's electrical flow operations. NATO's ongoing missions as well as deployments are displayed on the map as well as yous tin click on the armed services markers to explore the compass of each mission.

The map too includes a release of other layers that present yous the electrical flow fellow member countries of NATO, the non-member partners who contribute troops as well as NATO's other partners across the world.

See Towns Grow Alongside These Historic Maps

The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is a keen agency to explore the growth of U.S. cities using USGS historical maps.

Click on the modern Esri map of a place too all the available USGS historical topographic maps of the expanse are shown inward a timeline beneath the map. If you lot guide a map from the timeline it volition so hold out overlaid on the modern map. You tin hence operate through the timeline of historical maps to detect how towns too cities bring developed over time.

The map includes an opacity slide tool so that you lot tin conform the transparency of the overlaid historical maps. The timeline beneath the map tin also hold out adjusted to increase the size of 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.

The Photograph Map From Outer Space

Last yr Dave MacLean, from the GIS Faculty at the Centre of Geographic Sciences of the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), released an amazing map of photos taken from the International Space Station.

Our World from the ISS is an ESRI map of photos, taken from the ISS posted past times @Cmdr_Hadfield as well as @AstroMarshburn on Twitter. The map allows you lot to persuasion thumbnails of the posted images. If you lot click on the thumbnail the photograph volition hence opened upward inwards a novel browser window.

Dave MacLean has directly released a novel map roofing photos from the ISS Missions forty as well as 41. All the photos are mapped to the locations shown inwards the views of the globe depicted. The map besides shows the alive lay of the International Space Station.

The Rudest Places Inwards Australia

Aussies inwards the acre of South Commonwealth of Australia merely can't terminate swearing, at to the lowest degree that seems to last the lesson to last learned from their Twitter messages. Languages of Australia is a map showing the languages of geolocated tweets inwards Australia. It too shows where people used profanities inwards their Tweets.

The map uses Twitter information from sixth June 2013 until March 14th 2014. It reveals that South Commonwealth of Australia is the acre where the must profanities were made during that time. However although it was the rudest acre the rudest suburb is truly inwards New South Wales, where the Twitter users of Illawarra Catchment Reserve used profanities inwards over a 3rd of all their Twitter messages.

The superlative non-English languages used inwards Tweets are displayed on the map amongst coloured dots. You tin too lead whatever of the languages from a drop-down bill of fare to sentiment the expose of Tweets made inwards the linguistic communication inwards each suburb.

America's Divided Cities

Esri has mapped occupational class, income in addition to educational achievement for every census tract inwards the United States. The Geography of Class, Education, in addition to Income inwards the United States uses 3 maps shown side-by-side, 1 map for each of the 3 metrics.

The Occupational Class map shades each census tract to present the dominant occupational class. The Education map shades each tract to reverberate the per centum of the population amongst a Bachelor score or higher. The third, Household Income map, shows the average median identify income.

Using the maps yous tin laissez passer on the axe zoom inwards on whatever metropolis inwards the the States in addition to explore the diverse socio-economic divides that split modern America. City Labs has besides used these maps to illustrate how today's cities present a 'clear designing of shape sectionalisation in addition to segregation across the entire United States'.

The Increase Of The Megacities

There are 28 megacities inward the world, cities amongst a population inward excess of 10 million. This Esri map looks at the increase of x of these megacites some the globe over the end century.

The Age of Megacities maps the increase of x global megacities past times examining the expanding urban footprint of each metropolis over the years. For each of the megacities yous tin stance a serial of map overlays, showing the size of the metropolis at unlike times inward the end 1 hundred years or so.

For example the map of Chicago allows yous to stance the city's urban extent inward 1929, 1954, 1972 together with inward 2014. It is thus possible to stance how Chicago has grown since 1929. As good every minute Chicago, The Age of Megacities maps the increase of Tokyo, Shanghai, United Mexican U.S. of A. City, Sao Paulo, Lagos, Los Angeles, Paris, London together with Johannesburg,

Mapping The Anthropocene

Welcome to the Anthropocene explores the final result of the human race on planet Earth. This Smithsonian created Esri Story Map presents a serial of maps demonstrating the influence of human action on the planet as well as too explores around of the solutions beingness developed to examine as well as re-shape the means nosotros interact alongside the Earth.

This narrative map is inwards ii distinct halves. The start purpose of the storey map explores the final result of the human race on planet public yesteryear mapping population density, the per centum of province surface nether human province management, the per centum of province given over to agriculture, the worldwide devastation of forests as well as animate beingness extinction rates.

The minute one-half of Welcome to the Anthropocene explores around of the approaches beingness undertaken to practise a sustainable means of life on public inwards cities inwards the USA. These examples include bike friendly cities, the tillage of rooftop vegetation, H2O desalination, greenish storm-water efforts as well as other sustainable projects.

The 25 Best French Storey Maps

Esri has announced the winners of the 2014 French Story Maps competition.

Esri's narrative mapping platform, Story Maps, combines maps amongst rich media content to nation the even out of a place, event, issue, trend, or blueprint inwards a geographic context. One of the huge advantages of Story Maps is the depression entry barrier. You don't necessitate to survive a GIS specialist or a spider web developer to utilisation a Story Map.

This depression entry barrier has seen the popularity of Story Maps grow in addition to grow. An lawsuit of this popularity is the 25 maps submitted to the 2015 French Story Maps competition.

The overall winner of the contest was the 10,000 Year Migration of Snails inwards Southern France. This Story Map explores the distribution of half-dozen dissimilar species of snails inwards Mediterranean French Republic from the early on Holocene menses to the acquaint day.


In minute house was The Map of the Bourges Light Nights. Every summertime the French metropolis of Bourges creates a spectacularly lit night-time walk around some of the architectural heritage of Bourges.

The Map of the Bourges Light Nights plots the Night Lights trail in addition to provides data most the of import historical buildings that yous tin flame stance on this walk most the city.


In 3rd house was The World Tour of Geoglyphs. This map takes yous on a tour of some of the world's most good known geoglyphs, allowing yous to stance the satellite imagery of each of the featured giant artistic province features.

You tin flame stance all 25 of these French Story Maps on the SIG 2014 website.

What Your Goose Egg Code Says Most You

Esri's Zip Lookup map knows all close y'all - together with that's merely from your zip-code. This map too reveals a lot close how businesses become close profiling y'all based purely on your postal address.

Type your zip-code into the map together with encounter what Esri predicts close y'all together with your lifestyle. The map uses Esri's Tapestry Segmentation methodology to form zip-code areas into 67 unique marketplace set segments. When y'all type inwards your zip-code the map volition expose the 3 prevailing types of Tapestry marketplace set segments living inwards your area.

You tin too thought other demographic exceptional close your zip-code area, including median menage income, median historic current together with the population density.


The Seattle Times has created a like interactive map based on Nielsen demographic groups inwards Seattle.

The Nielsen Company categorizes people into 66 dissimilar demographic groups inwards social club to assistance businesses target their marketing to a greater extent than effectively. By looking at the dominant groups inwards dissimilar neighborhoods the market-research company tin than infer generalized characteristics of the local residents.

The Seattle Times' What Your Census Tract Says About You is an interactive map revealing the ii most dominant Nielsen categories inwards each Seattle neighborhood. Click on a Seattle neighborhood together with y'all tin notice out what Nielsen thinks close the people who alive there.

Story Mapping Spatial Analysis

This Story Map from Esri is a actually interesting introduction to spatial analysis. The map guides yous through but about of the spatial analysis that yous powerfulness undertake if yous were planning to opened upwards up a novel retail store, examining factors such every bit population, income distribution as well as locomote fourth dimension which powerfulness lawsuit the store's location.

An Example of Spatial Analysis runs through but about of the spatial analysis which yous powerfulness undertake if yous wanted to opened upwards a novel shop inwards St. Louis. As yous progress through the story map a publish of map overlays are added to the map to aid explicate whether opening a novel shop in St. Louis would be a practiced idea.

The story map examines St. Louis' locomote times from urban marrow blocks to the place of the novel store, the population distribution inwards the urban marrow as well as the median identify income levels inwards the city. An Example of Spatial Analysis every bit good examines how yous powerfulness purpose exploratory regression as well as ordinary regression to range upwards one's heed which of these factors are the almost of import inwards predicting potential sales inwards the novel store.

Map Lenses

Europe inwards 1914 together with 2014.

Esri's novel Lens map together with the rootage code for the prove is available here.


Some skilful examples of using a map lens to compare earlier together with afterward maps are available inwards the Smithsonian & Esri History Maps collection/

The Smithsonian & ESRI History Maps are a serial of maps combining historical maps from the David Rumsey collection alongside Esri's modern aerial imagery. Each of the maps includes a cracking magnifying drinking glass tool that allows you lot to thought the modern 24-hour interval aerial icon through the historical map. You tin laissez passer on notice fifty-fifty switch the views around together with compare the historical map on altitude of the modern aerial imagery.

The serial includes historical maps of a seat out of the United States of America cities, including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, LA together with Denver.

World Champion Geographer

I am the geographic champion of the world.

Okay, I'm not. That championship is currently held past times Frederick B. But I am the 5th highest scorer today on the Esri MapQuiz. Which is adept plenty for me.

MapQuiz is a your geographic literacy game which tests how good yous tin sack recognize satellite imagery from dissimilar locations unopen to the world. Log-in to MapQuiz amongst a Facebook draw of piece of job concern human relationship together with yous volition live on shown a serial of satellite images. All yous accept to produce is approximate the right place from 4 suggestions.

You are awarded points for each place that yous instruct right together with for how speedily yous tin sack answer. After yous accept completed half dozen rounds of the game yous tin sack compare your grade against today's pinnacle scores, the pinnacle scores recorded this month, the best this yr together with the all fourth dimension pinnacle scores.

I'm alarm yous though yous volition accept to become some to trounce me!

The Interactive Map Jigsaw

If you've been furiously clicking away trying to rhythm out your hi-score on MapQuiz then it could hold out fourth dimension to accept a break too endeavor out a to a greater extent than sedate too relaxed geo-game.

GeoJigsaw is an inspired interactive map jigsaw from Esri. The game allows you lot to choose jumbled upwardly maps from around the world. All you lot induce got to utilisation is to set all the jigsaw pieces dorsum together to consummate the map.

You tin choose map jigsaw puzzles to play yesteryear place or yesteryear difficulty level. If you lot can't uncovering a map that you lot similar don't worry. You tin only zoom inwards on whatsoever place inwards the globe too utilisation your ain map jigsaw puzzle.

The Solar Eclipse Map

The Solar Eclipse Finder is an Esri map that displays the path of by together with futurity solar eclipses for whatsoever place on Earth.

The tool couldn't last simpler to use. Just click on the map together with by solar eclipses at the selected place are shown on the map inward greenish together with futurity eclipse are shown inward blue. If y'all mouse-over the path of a solar eclipse y'all tin sentiment details inward the map side-bar.

The details on each eclipse include the date, fourth dimension together with the duration of the solar eclipse. The Solar Eclipse Finder includes the paths of 905 solar eclipses from 1601 to 2200.