Flourish, the information visualization studio, has released a novel interactive mapping format which allows you lot to present geographical information changing over time.
The novel Point Map template allows you lot to present points on a map over time, either past times charge per unit of measurement or cumulatively. Using the template you lot tin sack present events occurring over fourth dimension equally points on an interactive map, which tin sack last scaled in addition to colored based on the data. Flourish's introductory weblog post service on the novel template, Visualize large geographic datasets amongst the “Point map” template, has an illustration map which shows AirBnB bookings made inwards London over the summertime of 2018.
Flourish has likewise created around other demo of the Point Map template showing the jaw-droppping ascension of AirBnB inwards Istanbul. This interactive map shows the ascension of AirBnB properties inwards the Turkish upper-case missive of the alphabet over recent years. One of the large selling points of Point Map is that you lot don't ask to produce whatever coding in addition to tin sack easily laid a map if you lot bring a spreadsheet of fourth dimension based place data. Another useful characteristic inwards the Point Map template is that you lot tin sack zoom in addition to pan the map to easily choice out features inwards the information inwards a storey map format. You tin sack come across this inwards activity on the demo maps past times but clicking on the forrard in addition to dorsum buttons inwards a higher house the maps.
You tin sack likewise present geographical information changing over fourth dimension using Carto's Torque library. Torque is a JavaScript library for animating information on an interactive map. Torque does require you lot to last able to code. However because of this it does order you lot to a greater extent than command over how you lot wishing to introduce in addition to visualize your fourth dimension based geographical information than Flourish's novel Point Map template.
