New The Maps Of The Week

We've featured a lot of Carto DB Torque powered maps inwards the terminal month. This animated map of the geography of 400,000 hours of TV tidings is amid the almost interesting.

The Internet Archive geo-coded 400,000 hours of U.S. of A. telly tidings together with mapped the locations mentioned inwards each report. The Animated Geography of TV News map animates through the locations mentioned inwards the tidings providing a peachy visualization of the countries together with areas that have the almost attending together with the areas which are neglected past times American tidings (sorry Africa).


I dearest the slide command inwards the maps featured inwards this Urban Institute interactive. Washington DC - Our Changing City is a written report on the population changes happening inwards Washington DC.

The interactive written report includes a serial of maps comparison population together with demographic changes inwards the American upper-case alphabetic lineament betwixt 2000 together with 2010. Each map includes a slide command that allows the user to swipe across the map to compare the differences inwards point maps from the yr 2000 together with 2010.

I've seen this type of slide command used earlier to compare earlier together with afterward photographs. For example, I used a like command to compare aerial imagery from earlier together with afterward the 2011 tornado inwards Tuscaloosa. However this is the kickoff fourth dimension I've seen a slide command used to compare ii unlike map layers.


Johannes Gutenberg's excogitation of mechanical movable type printing inwards the 15th century was in all probability the almost of import regain inwards the modern age. Gutenberg's excogitation arguably kick-started the Renaissance together with undoubtedly led to the spread of learning amid the full general population inwards Europe.

The Atlas of Early Printing is a Google Map charting the spread of printing, from Gutenberg's kickoff movable type printer inwards 1452 inwards Mainz to the residue of Europe past times the terminate of the 15th century. The map includes a timeline that allows y'all to visualize the ascent of printing presses throughout Europe over the course of study of the 15th century.


If y'all are bored at schoolhouse don't simply sit down in that place mindlessly staring into space, conk your outcry upwardly out together with portion your boredom alongside the residue of the world.

The Real Time #Bored inwards School Map is a real-time map showing Tweets past times schoolkids who are bored inwards class. Since the map went alive on the 16th Dec in that place has been over 43,000 bored Tweets. That is a lot of bored students.

As good every bit the map of alive Tweets the app keeps a running full of the give away of 'bored' messages together with a alive trouble nautical chart of the give away of Tweets made over the terminal hour.

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