New The Maps Of The Week

James Cheshire together with Ed Manley's maps of the Twitter Languages of London together with the Twitter Languages of New York convey rightly proved real pop visualisations of the multi-cultural nature of both cities.

Inspired past times James together with Ed's maps Simon Jackson has straightaway created a like map for Melbourne. Tweets of Melbourne uses ESRI maps together with information from Nov 2012. Simon says he is updating the map amongst novel information every weekend.

One of the most interesting aspects of the map for me is the let on of Asian languages beingness used inward the city. It is shame that Twitter is together with thus young. It would convey been interesting to stance a like map from the 1970's. In 1975 Commonwealth of Australia dropped it's controversial 'White Commonwealth of Australia Policy'. Does this map reverberate a wider realignment of Australia's geopolitics away from Europe towards closer integration amongst its South East Asian neighbours?

Metropolitain is a information visualisation of traffic on the Paris Metro. Users tin flaming click on whatever of the city's Metro stations together with stance information on how many passengers passed through the station inward 2011.

The Metro map includes a slap-up 3d stance that allows the user to plough a s estrus map of traffic on the Metro organisation into a slap-up contour map of Metro traffic.

The World Food Programme's Hunger Map shows the prevalence of undernourishment inward countries but about the the world equally of 2010 - 2012. The indicator is an gauge of the percent of the population having access to an sum of loose energy from nutrient insufficient to hold a salubrious life.

Users tin flaming click on private countries on the map together with larn to a greater extent than nearly the nutrient safety province of affairs inward that province together with the WFP's operate inward the province using the tab controls inward the map sidebar.