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Saturday, November 11, 2017

The Maps Of The Week


Google Night Walk is an amazing narrated Street View tour of Marseilles at night. Google Night Walk takes you lot on an immersive journeying through the lively Cours Julien neighbourhood of Marseille. During this Street View tour of night-time Marseilles you lot are treated to an well narrated guide past times Julie too Christophe, 2 urban storytellers, who help explicate the living history of the city.

To navigate the night-time panoramic imagery of Google Night Walk follow the bluish business inwards the Street View, piece you lot heed to Julie too Christophe's narrated guide. You tin also deviate from the narrated guide at anytime too explore the metropolis nether your ain steam past times next the dotted paths off of the primary tour.

Google Night Walk is a articulation projection past times Google Creative Labs too 72andSunny. The narrator, Julie Muer, is an urban storyteller who walks the streets of Marseilles, collecting the sounds too voices of the city.


Maps tin live on really powerful tools inwards information visualization. Especially when you lot desire to present a correlation betwixt 2 unlike data-sets. This is truthful of this map of Forced Labor inwards Amazonia.

This visualization overlays information relating to the place of rescued slaves and deforestation inwards the Amazon on a map of Brazil. The correlation betwixt locations where those inwards forced labor get got been rescued too areas suffering from deforestation appears to live on really clear on the map.

The map really powerfully reinforces the human relationship betwixt the destruction of the pelting wood inwards Brazil too social degradation from forced labor.


Global Pulse has released an impressive interactive presentation exploring how the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals are beingness discussed on social media.

In the yr 2000 the UN agreed to fix 8 Millennium Development Goals. The 8 MDGs were meant to render a framework from which to halve poverty some the basis past times 2015. As that deadline approaches Global Pulse and the Millennium Campaign has released Unglobal Pulse, to explore how unlike countries get got been discussing topics related to these goals on Twitter.

This interactive visualization shows the xx countries which get got proportionately tweeted the most close each topic. The visualization includes a dandy interactive globe too a Google Map, both of which permit you lot to explore Twitter messages posted close the MDG goals some the world.