The Maps Of The Week

On Apr 9th, 1948 inwards Bogotá, Colombia, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala, the Liberal leader as well as presidential candidate, was assassinated. In reply to his assassination massive riots broke out inwards the city. The riots of Apr ninth left 3,000 to 5,000 dead as well as thousands injured, alongside much of downtown Bogotá destroyed.

The History of Bogatazo is a even out map which recounts the assassination of Gaitán as well as the resulting uprising inwards Bogotá. The impressive visual aesthetic of this map is created through the role of custom vintage style map tiles, a careful attending to especial inwards the map markers & timeline icons as well as inwards the decorative corner images.

As yous progress through the timeline the map automatically updates to demo the of import events of the day, alongside photos as well as text explaining each mapped event. The map is available inwards both English linguistic communication as well as Castilian versions.


Washington DC's ShotSpotter arrangement is a network of over 300 acoustic sensors that are used to expose the audio of gunfire inwards the metropolis as well as triangulate the place of each shooting. The Urban Institute has used the information from the ShotSpotter arrangement to map gunfire incidents which took house close Washington DC schools during the 2011–12 schoolhouse year.

Mapping Gunshots Near DC Schools plots schools inwards Washington DC as well as incidents of gunfire on the same map. The schoolhouse map markers are color-coded to demo schools that were inside 500 feet of a gunshot, 1,000 feet as well as those that were farther than 1,000 feet from a shooting incident. The map also allows yous to plow off gunshot incidents which took house exterior the fourth dimension of normal schoolhouse hours.


The Berliner Morgenpost's Fußballkarte shows where the registered supporters of eight of the xviii Bundesliga football game clubs live.

Fußballkarte (BETA) shades each neighborhood inwards FRG based on the monastic state alongside the close registered supporters inwards that neighborhood. If yous mouse-over a neighborhood yous tin john stance the release of registered supporters for each of the eight clubs.

As good equally the Bundesliga Fußballkarte at that topographic point are also localized Berlin as well as Hamburg versions of the map. Hamburger Fußballkarte is a map of Hamburg showing where HSV as well as St. Pauli convey the close fans inwards the city. The Berliner Fußballkarte shows the registered supporters of Berlin's summit 2 football game clubs, Hertha Berlin as well as FC Union Berlin.

The Maps Of The Week

Amplifon has created Sounds of Street View, a novel platform to exercise too sense environs audio amongst Google Street View. Sounds of Street View has iii event Street View locations which you lot tin terminate explore amongst amount 3d sound: the Place du Palais inwards France, Hapuna Beach inwards Hawaii too Balboa Park inwards San Diego.

You tin terminate explore each of these locations inwards Street View only equally you lot would on Google Maps, using the arrows to navigate roughly a location. However amongst Sounds of Street View you lot likewise larn to heed to the stereophonic sounds of each location.

Amplifon had likewise released a platform which developers tin terminate role to exercise their ain Sounds of Street View. Visit Create Your Own too you lot tin terminate download the Sounds of Street View framework too read a detailed lead explaining how to exercise your ain Street View amongst audio experience.


Artists Manfred Kraft, Tom Kresin too Michael Volkmer bring only finished a mapped based interactive fine art exhibition at the Wiesbaden Museum of Fine Art inwards Germany.

The Radwende crusade involved a robot cartographer creating a daily heat-map from the previous day's cycling tracks of Wiesbaden cyclists. Anyone could contribute to the artwork yesteryear downloading the Radwende mobile app too using it to rail their wheel rides.

The exhibition has come upward to an halt straight off but you lot tin terminate all the same thought a Leaflet map of all the contributed tracks to the Radwende campaign. The map includes the information from over 3,000 wheel journeys roofing 16,756 km inwards distance.


The Australian Photovoltaic Institute has released a serial of maps designed to explore the Australian solar PV marketplace lay too the PV potential of rooftops.

The Live Solar Potential Map allows menage owners inwards a publish of Australian cities to approximate the potential of roofs for electricity generation from PV. If you lot zoom inwards on the map you lot tin terminate describe roughly the outline of your roof too thought an estimation of the probable ability that could hold upward generated from solar panels too the unloosen energy pecker savings that could hold upward made.

The Australian Photovoltaic installations map visualizes the  estimated per centum of dwellings that bring a PV organisation too the amount photovoltaic capacity installed for each each postcode too local authorities surface area inwards Australia. Select an surface area on the map too you lot tin terminate thought an estimation of the amount publish of dwellings, the publish of dwellings amongst PV installations too the annual unloosen energy generated from PV inwards the area.

Animated Tube Maps

Mon morning. Time to get-go the calendar week amongst a piddling frivolous fun.

Tube Scroll has created a publish of surreptitious transit organisation maps using SVG. Choose a transit map from the front end page (including GTA V's Los Santos subway map) together with y'all tin together with hence scout equally your chosen map is drawn alive on your monitor.

To run across the subway map beingness drawn y'all but bring to scroll downward on the page. Each map besides includes an data pick which allows y'all to sentiment the publish of lines, the publish of stations together with the full length of the chosen transit system.

Go Berlin - The Map Lead To Berlin

If yous alive inwards Berlin, or convey plans to see the metropolis whatever fourth dimension soon, in addition to hence yous should straight off bookmark Go Berlin. This is the alone map of Berlin that yous are always probable to need.

Go Berlin is a novel events listings in addition to metropolis map from Berlin magazines Zitty in addition to Tip Berlin. At the 2nd the map is alone inwards an Alpha free phase only it is already an invaluable conduct to discovering where to become in addition to what to practice inwards Germany's upper-case missive of the alphabet city.

Using the map yous tin sack search for upcoming events nether the 'Programm' heading. Here yous tin sack detect theatre, cinema, gigs in addition to other events inwards the city. Select this pick in addition to the location of upcoming events volition last added to the map. Click on a marking in addition to yous tin sack sentiment details virtually the event, including the address of the venue in addition to the appointment in addition to starting times of upcoming events.

The 'Gastro' department allows yous to add together the locations of cafes in addition to restaurants to the map. Select a restaurant's marking in addition to yous tin sack read a review of the eating home in addition to sentiment all the details yous postulate to majority a tabular array in addition to detect the restaurant.

As yous browse the Go Berlin map yous tin sack star private events in addition to venues that grab your core to practice an private map of all the restaurants, events in addition to places which yous innovation to see inwards the city.

The Zombie Sounds Of Street View

Last calendar month Amplifon created Sounds of Street View, a novel platform which allows yous to add together audio to Google Maps Street View. If yous see Sounds of Street View Create Your Own you tin download the Sounds of Street View framework as well as read a detailed direct explaining how to practise your ain Street View amongst audio experience.

Bryan James has boot the bucket the showtime independent developer to purpose the framework to practise his ain aural sense on Street View. And it is genuinely frightening!

Zombie Sound Experienz uses the Business Photos Street View tour from the Zombie Manor inward Drayton to practise a creepy virtual tour, amongst amount 3d sound. The custom Street View tour was created for Drayton Manor past times 360 Agency, who too created the Street View tour of Diagon Alley for the Warner Bros. Studio Tour.

As yous progress through this zombie filled virtual Street View tour yous tin forthwith very listen the zombies pursuing you.

As yous see the dissimilar rooms inward the Zombie Manor yous volition listen a multifariousness of creepy sounds. Different zombies as well as rooms convey dissimilar sounds attached to them, which teach louder or quieter equally yous approach or go away from them. 

The World's Worst Air Pollution

mainland People's Republic of China is the province amongst the worst air pollution inward the world. However the average air pollution inward mainland People's Republic of China pales into insignificance compared to the air pollution of New Delhi, the metropolis amongst the worst global air pollution.

You tin compare your province as well as city's air pollution to these 2 extremes on a novel Pollution Map from Yale University. This visualization of the world's air pollution uses information from WHO's Ambient Air Pollution database (city level) as well as the 2014 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) (country level) to exhibit the air pollution inward each province inward the footing as well as inward a divulge of the world's largest cities.

If y'all desire to know to a greater extent than virtually how the map was made y'all tin read a write-up yesteryear Pedro Cuhna inward this week's CartoDB Map of the Week post.

If y'all desire to stance real-time air pollution readings thus y'all should banking venture jibe out these maps:

Worldwide - Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map
Great Britain - Defra Air Pollution Forecast
Houston - The Houston Clean Air Network
Hong Kong - Hedley Environment Index

Mapping Drug Edge Seizures

Drug Seizures Along the US-Mexico Border, from the Center of Investigative Journalism, examines the sum as well as types of drugs that accept been seized beingness smuggled across the 2,000 mile edge betwixt the U.S. as well as Mexico.

The map plots 128,169 drug seizures made yesteryear the U.S. Border Patrol betwixt January 2005 as well as October 2011. You tin strength out choose which type of drug is plotted on the map (marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin as well as other) using the buttons instantly beneath the map. The map likewise includes a timeline as well as hence that y'all tin strength out compare the expose of each type of drug seized yesteryear year.

The sum of each drug seized at each U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint is represented yesteryear the size of the circle on the map. If y'all choose a checkpoint station on the map y'all tin strength out likewise persuasion details on the full expose of seizures as well as the average weight of each seizure.