Wealth Distribution Inwards Norway

Norwegian paper Aftenposten is using the Google Maps API to visualize wealth distribution inwards Norway. The Norwegian authorities is proposing to teach rid of the country's wealth tax. The Aftenposten map uses information from 2012 taxation returns to visualize the distribution of Norway's wealth in addition to wealth taxation payers.

The map allows yous to search for an address past times postal code, or past times metropolis or county. If yous pick out a place on the map yous tin sack stance the number of wealth taxation payers inwards the selected area, the full wealth in addition to the total raised past times the wealth taxation inwards that area. The mapped interactive is beingness used inwards a serial of articles from the Aftenposten examining a gain of issues raised past times the government's wealth taxation proposals.

The Oslo To Bergen Trekking Map

Today Bjørn Sandvik laid upward out on an epic trek from Oslo to Bergen inward Norway. You tin follow Bjørn's progress alive on an impressive Leaflet map. Oslo-Bergen Til Fots (Oslo-Bergen on Foot) shows Bjørn's alive position, photos he has taken on his trek together with an peak profile.

The map on its ain is pretty amazing. What is genuinely awesome, however, is that Bjørn's spider web log Thematic Mapping has been recording the creation of this map over the end few months. Read the spider web log together with you lot tin honor out how the map was built together with fifty-fifty select grip of roughly of the code behind the map.

For example, Showing Instagram Photos together with Videos on a Leaflet Map discusses the Leaflet plug-in (and gives the GitHub link for the plug-in) he created to add together Instagram photos to the map. Other posts on the spider web log explicate how to purpose a SPOT Satellite Messenger to rail together with map your trips together with how to utilisation an peak profile.

Around Norway On Video

Norwegian idiot box channel NRK has released a video map featuring clips from the pop idiot box programme Norge Rundt. Norge Rundt (Around Norway) has been broadcasting since 1976, featuring local stories from NRK offices approximately Norway.

Kart hos NRK has mapped 2,064 video clips from Norge Rundt, all of which tin sack move watched straight from the map. The map allows Norwegians to discovery as well as sentinel local Norge Rundt items which convey been broadcast from their surface area of the country.

The map uses an interesting marking clustering arrangement which industrial plant good when only a few video clips are existence mapped to the same location. However it becomes a piddling messy when you lot convey a lot of videos all mapped at the same place (see screenshot above). This propose that Kart hos NRK notwithstanding has a piddling move to create inwards to a greater extent than accurately geo-tagging the place of some of the Norge Rundt clips.

Who Is Spying On Norway?

Norwegian paper Aftenposten has discovered testify of a massive organised surveillance functioning which appears to live on aimed at eavesdropping on telephone calls as well as tracking the movements of Norwegian authorities ministers as well as officials.

The paper has mapped the locations of simulated electrochemical cell base of operations stations, called IMSI catchers, which environs the Prime Minister's office, the Norwegian Parliament as well as the Ministry of Defence. IMSI catchers are used to rails the movements of electrochemical cell users as well as listening inwards on mobile communications. In an article, entitled Aftenposten Reveals Mobile Espionage, the paper has used the Leaflet.js mapping platform to visualize the locations of the IMSI catchers that the paper has uncovered inwards cardinal Oslo.

The extent of the network of IMSI catchers as well as the obvious expence of the equipment used has led Aftenposten to assume that the spying must live on the operate of a unusual intelligence agency, a large criminal gang or a large someone corporation involved inwards industrial espionage. 

Aftenposten Reveals Mobile Espionage on Google Translate