New The Best Maps Of The Week

Last week's United Nations climate modify meridian inward New York seems to bring led to a rising inward the global output of surroundings maps. This calendar week 3 environmental maps actually caught my eye.

The Changing Global Emissions Map and the FFDAS Map  are 2 nicely designed maps which visualize CO₂ emissions approximately the world. Using either of the maps yous tin move discovery the carbon emissions of whatever solid soil approximately the world.

This calendar week too saw the unloosen of the Carbon Footprint Map, which visualizes the average annual family carbon footprint of zip code areas inward the United States. The map reveals a clear pattern inward large cities, which shows that those living inward the see of cities bring a lower family carbon footprint than those living inward urban meat suburbs.


This calendar week I was too impressed yesteryear this campus map of Essex University. In detail this map has a bully management service, which provides directions betwixt whatever 2 campus buildings.

The Essex University campus map, WAI2Go, non solely looks beautiful it too has a expose of actually useful navigation features. The custom built directions service tin move render directions betwixt whatever 2 points on campus. You tin move fifty-fifty asking the 'shortest route', a 'step gratuitous route' or an 'indoor road (where possible).

Another bully characteristic of the Essex University campus map is its indoor maps. Select the 'campus overview' selection in addition to yous tin move stance indoor map plans for unlike buildings in addition to fifty-fifty the unlike flooring levels inward each building.

Combine this amongst the directions service in addition to yous tin move chop-chop discovery your road betwixt whatever 2 rooms on campus. Click on a room in addition to yous tin move  select 'directions to' or 'directions from' this room. I actually similar how the management service manages to navigate users betwixt unlike flooring levels on their journey.


There are 28 megacities inward the world, cities amongst a population inward excess of 10 million. This Esri map looks at the increment of 10 of these megacites approximately the basis over the concluding century.

The Age of Megacities maps the increment of 10 global megacities yesteryear examining the expanding urban footprint of each urban meat over the years. For each of the megacities yous tin move stance a serial of map overlays, showing the size of the urban meat at unlike times inward the concluding 1 hundred years or so.

For representative the map of Chicago allows yous to stance the city's urban extent inward 1929, 1954, 1972 in addition to inward 2014. It is thus possible to stance how Chicago has grown since 1929. As good every bit Chicago, You tin move too last the map to visualize the increment of Tokyo, Shanghai, United Mexican States City, Sao Paulo, Lagos, Los Angeles, Paris, London in addition to Johannesburg,

Share this post