New The Google Maps Of The Week

This calendar week I was impressed yesteryear a issue of mapped based information visualisations.

The UK's Office for National Statistics released a novel map that compares information from the 2011 United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland census alongside the 2001 census. The Census Map allows users to stance population in addition to historic menstruum information from the 2011 census in addition to compare the results alongside the information from the 2001 census. The Canadian Census Map, on the other hand, is a swell agency to explore information from the 2011 Canadian census.This mapped visualisation uses Google Maps to permit the user to browse information from the census related to 'families', 'people' in addition to 'languages'.


The New York Times this calendar week published A Survey of the Flooding inwards NYC After the Hurricane.

The survey uses Google Maps to demo the estimated summit reached yesteryear floodwaters from surveys in addition to conditions information collected yesteryear the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Users of the map tin select private neighborhoods on the map to stance information on floodwater heights at private edifice plot level.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 issue of neighborhoods on the map include dark boxes. If the user selects whatever of the boxed neighborhoods they tin read an overview of the impairment caused inwards that neighborhood yesteryear the tempest in addition to stance photographs of the impairment caused.


The car ride fellowship Uber has created to a greater extent than or less dainty Google Map visualisations of their journeying information looking at the issue of trips taken betwixt dissimilar neighbourhoods inwards a issue of cities.

In Mapping the San Franciscome (full map here) you lot tin encounter the popularity of journeys betwixt San Francisco's dissimilar neighbourhoods. 35 of San Francisco’s neighborhoods are examined inwards the visualisation. At the pump of each neighborhood is a circle, the size of which represents the proportion of rides that stream into that neighborhood.

Every neighbourhood that sends a ride out has a draw of piece of occupation of the same color equally the origin neighbourhood connecting it to its destination. The weight of each draw of piece of occupation represents the proportion of rides that instruct from the origin neighbourhood to its target.
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