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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

The Unanimous Map Of The Year

One map has featured on every 2014 Maps of the Year listing that I accept seen this year. It is 1 of Wired MapLab's Favorite Maps of the Year. It appears on Cartonerd's Favorite Maps of the Year and it volition definitely endure on component division 2 of my ain round-up of the best Maps of the Year (view Part One here).

The map that has made it on to every Maps of the Year ship service is Chris Whong's NYC Taxis: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day inward the Life. MapLab telephone telephone the map 'strangely mesmerizing'. Cartonerd says that the map is "a lovely slice of locomote that industrial plant well, marries degree too component division too shows us what spider web mapping tin be".


NYC Taxis: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day inward the Life is a MapBox visualization of the journeying of 1 New York taxi over the course of report of 24 hours.

As the day's journeys plays out on the map the taxi's set is shown yesteryear a yellowish circle map marker. All the rider journeys are added to the map alongside a bluish polyline. The map too keeps a running full of the cab's full discover of passengers, fares too tips received.

Once you lot accept viewed a 24-hour interval inward the life of this New York taxi you lot tin select from unopen to other 1 of 30 cab journeys mapped over 24 hours.