New The Google Maps Of The Week

Twitter has used CartoDB to exercise a cool heatmap that shows every geotagged tweet that mentioned 'Wimbledon' during the ii weeks of the tournament. The Wimbledon Heatmap uses Google Maps and, dissimilar many other Twitter heatmaps, truly allows you lot to read the tweets themselves (it fifty-fifty includes tweeted photographs).

If you lot are interested inward the information behind the map, Twitter has likewise published an interesting blog post looking at which countries tweeted the most messages almost Wimbledon too fifty-fifty explores which players tweeted the most during the tournament (Andy Murray wins again).


Google has released a novel interactive site that allows you lot to sense the Tour de French Republic using Google Maps too Street View.

Your Tour allows you lot to switch betwixt a map of the electrical current phase road too an interactive Street View tour of the route. The Street View alternative requires you lot to scroll downwards on the page to progress through the stage. The seek is worth it though every bit you lot instruct your ain get-go someone persuasion of the phase road every bit you lot furiously scroll.

Each of the stages is locked until the actual appointment that the phase is scheduled to hold upwards raced. Today you lot instruct the adventure to persuasion the road from Givors to Mont Ventoux. 


PeakAnalytics has created a map looking at the issue of times the peak xx burger chains are mentioned inward Twitter inward over 1,000 cities. It is non the most beautiful looking map merely it did generate a lot of involvement this week.

The Burger Joints Google Map shows the most tweeted burger chain inward towns across the United States. The logo of the most pop chain inward each town is used for the mark (resulting inward the cluttered await of the map). The map hence provides a quick conduct to the most tweeted almost burger chains across the USA.

You tin shipping away purpose the search box or pan too zoom the map to detect which was the most pop burger chain inward your town. You tin shipping away likewise individually pick out the different burger chains from the map sidebar to detect out where inward the US each chain is most popular.

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