Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts

Friday, April 22, 2022

The Due South African Point Map


Dot maps of the USA, showing population distribution past times race convey proved really pop recently. For example, the Racial Dot Map of America is a fascinating insight into the geographic distribution, population density, together with racial multifariousness inwards the USA.

South Africa straight off has its ain racial point distribution map. Mapping South Africa amongst Dot Distribution shows racial distribution across South Africa together with too the kickoff languages spoken, based on information from the 2011 South African census.

Zooming into a metropolis on the map reveals how the legacy of apartheid is a acre yet divided geographically together with socially past times race. Adam Frith, the creator of the map has too created a like map based on the 2001 census data. Depressingly, comparison the 2001 together with 2011 maps over again reveals that the stride of racial integration appears to live on moving really piece of cake inwards South Africa.

Monday, March 21, 2022

The Due South African Point Map


Dot maps of the USA, showing population distribution past times race convey proved really pop recently. For example, the Racial Dot Map of America is a fascinating insight into the geographic distribution, population density, together with racial multifariousness inwards the USA.

South Africa straight off has its ain racial point distribution map. Mapping South Africa amongst Dot Distribution shows racial distribution across South Africa together with too the kickoff languages spoken, based on information from the 2011 South African census.

Zooming into a metropolis on the map reveals how the legacy of apartheid is a acre yet divided geographically together with socially past times race. Adam Frith, the creator of the map has too created a like map based on the 2001 census data. Depressingly, comparison the 2001 together with 2011 maps over again reveals that the stride of racial integration appears to live on moving really piece of cake inwards South Africa.

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Mapping The Rhinoceros Poachers


Oxpeckers is a squad of journalists dedicated to revealing the stories behind of import environmental issues inward Africa. The squad bring of late released an interactive map visualizing the latest information on rhinoceros poaching courtroom cases inward South Africa.

The Oxpeckers Rhino Poachers Court Cases map shows the place of courtroom cases involving rhinoceros poaching inward the province using information obtained from South Africa’s Ministry of Police. You tin choose private markers on the map to read details nearly private courtroom cases as well as yous tin filter the results on the map past times station, engagement as well as the cite of the accused.

The map provides an engaging portal to this information on rhinoceros poaching courtroom cases. Using a map to visualize the information has proved really successful inward communicating word of rhinoceros poaching inward South Africa as well as inward attracting novel users to Oxpeckers. Oxpeckers country that inward the x days afterward the liberate of the map they doubled the number of users on the website as well as their Facebook audience increased 83% inward the calendar week afterward its launch.

Via: Visual Loop

Monday, March 29, 2021

The Due South African Census Map


Wasi (Xhosa for 'knowledge') is a slap-up tool for exploring South African census in addition to election data. Using the site yous tin explore a wealth of census in addition to election information at unlike administrative levels.

At the pith of the tool is a Leaflet map which allows yous to search the census information past times location. Click on a place on the map in addition to an overlay forthwith shows yous the area's population, Under the map a huge arrive at of other information close the selected place is also displayed. This includes demographic in addition to economical information in addition to recent election results.

What I similar close the map is the agency it allows yous to drill downward from say degree to municipalities in addition to thus to private census tracts. The initial map persuasion displays each of the provinces. Select a say on the map in addition to the map automatically zooms to demo the say in addition to displays all the election in addition to census information for the selected province. The say is highlighted on the map in addition to the map at nowadays displays each of the province's municipalities.

Select a municipality on the map in addition to the map zooms to that municipality, displays all the municipality's election in addition to census information in addition to at nowadays highlights all the census tracts inwards that municipality. If yous don't desire to drill downward to private ward areas inwards this agency yous tin also search the map past times name.

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Mapping The Cape Fire


Eyewitness News has created a Google Map showing the extent of the wildfires that raged only about the Cape Town due south peninsula end week.

The burn downwards has affected only about 5,000 hectares of land. To assist visualize the truthful extent of the burn downwards Eyewitness News' map, Cape Fire - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Comparison, allows you lot to overlay a polygon of the affected expanse overlaid on other locations only about the world. The map provides a unwrap of quick links to meet the 5,000 hectares overlaid on the map of a unwrap of major cities inwards South Africa too elsewhere only about the world. You tin too role an address search to meet the polygon overlaid on whatever other location.

Eyewitness News look to bring created their ain algorithm to conform the size of the polygon relative to the latitude of the mapped location. The Google Maps API truly includes its ain geodesic component subdivision which you lot tin utilize to polygons to enable them to hold upward resized relative to their seat on the map. You tin persuasion an instance of this on this Google Maps API Draggable Polygons code example.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Robben Isle Street View


Google has released Street View imagery for Robben Island inward South Africa. Robben Island is close famous equally the prison theater where Nelson Mandela was held for eighteen of the 27 years he served behind bars.

The best agency to explore the novel Street View imagery is on the Robben Island Museum page on Google's Cultural Institute website. The Robben Island Museum entry includes a guided tour of the prison theater past times one-time political prisoners. The Robben Island Prison Tour is a guided tour of the prison theater using the novel Google Maps Street View imagery together with narration from one-time political prisoner Vusumsi Mcongo.

The tour includes the sentiment prisoners would bring on arriving at the island, a sentiment from within a guard tower, the infirmary ward, the do yard together with Nelson Mandela's ain 2m 10 2m cell. Most of these Street View scenes are accompanied past times videos inward which Vusumsi Mcongo explains what life was similar equally a prisoner on Robben Island.