New The Google Maps Of The Week
Two Google Maps actually seemed to capture people's imagination this week; The Flat Route Finder together with the Hate Map.
The Flat Route Finder was the most shared map on social media at the start of the week. While, later its loose on Friday, the Hate Map speedily went viral on social media together with virtually equally speedily was picked upwardly past times a issue of the websites of the national together with international press.
The Hate Map is a estrus map of offensive messages made on Twitter. The map shows the fossil oil place of every geocoded tweet inwards the United U.S.A. from June 2012 - Apr 2013 that contained 1 or to a greater extent than of 10 'hate words'.
The offensive words mapped include 'racist', 'homophobic' together with 'anti-disability' terms. Users of the map tin stance estrus maps non alone of these full general themes but tin besides explore estrus maps of the 10 private loathe words.
As a semi-keen cyclist the matter I loathe most inwards the the world (after cars, buses together with trucks) is hills. I really, actually loathe hills.
Thankfully I tin directly operate the Flat Route Finder to respect cycling routes that avoid the steepest slopes. The Flat Route Finder uses the Google Maps superlative service to advise the flattest possible cycling route. Two superlative graphs are besides provided to demo yous the steepest parts of the road together with the road itself is colour-coded to demo yous the easiest together with most hard stages of the journey.
Also this week, The New York Times published an interesting Medicare Map that shows how much unlike hospitals accuse Medicare throughout the country, for the same treatment.
The map compares the charges made at 3,300 hospitals nationwide for the 100 most unremarkably performed treatments together with procedures. The colored markers on the map demo whether private hospitals charged less than the average (blue markers), 1 to ii times the average (yellow) or twice the national average (red).
The Flat Route Finder was the most shared map on social media at the start of the week. While, later its loose on Friday, the Hate Map speedily went viral on social media together with virtually equally speedily was picked upwardly past times a issue of the websites of the national together with international press.
The Hate Map is a estrus map of offensive messages made on Twitter. The map shows the fossil oil place of every geocoded tweet inwards the United U.S.A. from June 2012 - Apr 2013 that contained 1 or to a greater extent than of 10 'hate words'.
The offensive words mapped include 'racist', 'homophobic' together with 'anti-disability' terms. Users of the map tin stance estrus maps non alone of these full general themes but tin besides explore estrus maps of the 10 private loathe words.
As a semi-keen cyclist the matter I loathe most inwards the the world (after cars, buses together with trucks) is hills. I really, actually loathe hills.
Thankfully I tin directly operate the Flat Route Finder to respect cycling routes that avoid the steepest slopes. The Flat Route Finder uses the Google Maps superlative service to advise the flattest possible cycling route. Two superlative graphs are besides provided to demo yous the steepest parts of the road together with the road itself is colour-coded to demo yous the easiest together with most hard stages of the journey.
Also this week, The New York Times published an interesting Medicare Map that shows how much unlike hospitals accuse Medicare throughout the country, for the same treatment.
The map compares the charges made at 3,300 hospitals nationwide for the 100 most unremarkably performed treatments together with procedures. The colored markers on the map demo whether private hospitals charged less than the average (blue markers), 1 to ii times the average (yellow) or twice the national average (red).
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