New The Maps Of The Week

You mightiness hold out surprised at how many cities y'all could advert on a map that has no text labels. Even without text labels y'all could likely advert many worldwide cities but from the full general shape of the route networks together with other mapped features.

But tin y'all approximate a urban meat amongst no other mapped features except the locations of Starbucks branches? The Slate Starbucks Map Quiz requires y'all to create but that. It presents a serial of global urban meat maps amongst exclusively the locations of Starbucks shown. You are given 4 possible cities to select from and, afterward y'all brand your educated guess, the amount OpenStreetMap of the urban meat is revealed.

Riding the New Silk Road is an interesting interactive storey from The New York Times.

The Silk Road is a centuries one-time merchandise route from Asia to Europe. Hewlett-Packard has plainly revived the route every bit an option to transportation electronics from mainland People's Republic of China to Europe past times sea. This NYT characteristic looks at purpose of the modern route using a vertical scrolling map, illustrated amongst photos together with videos from 1 department of the modern route.

Global Land Temperatures is a heatmap of footing province temperature since 1900. The map shows over 100 years of monthly province temperature information collected from over 7,200 conditions stations some the world.

This information visualisation was created past times Halftone. You mightiness every bit good similar their Story of The the U.S. of A. Told In 141 Maps.

There has already been 1,240 shootings inwards Chicago this year. The Chicago Times has created a Chicago Shooting Map to demo where people were shot inwards Chicago, broken downward past times community area.

The darker the shade of bluish on the map, the larger the seat out of victims. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bar graph inwards the map sidebar displays the seat out of shootings past times calendar month together with the latest victims of gun crimes is every bit good listed.