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Friday, January 29, 2021

The Maps Of The Week


The Berliner Morgenpost is a creator of consistently swell mapped visualizations. Their map of final week's Berlin election is some other superb instance of how spatial information tin live on presented as well as analysed on an interactive map.

The 2016 Berlin Election map shows the election results inwards every electoral ward inwards the city. If yous click on a political party refer inwards the map legend yous tin besides run across the 10 districts where that political party got its highest part of the the vote. For example, if yous click on 'AfD' yous tin run across that the anti-immigration political party got its biggest part of the vote inwards seats which were inwards the former East Germany.

You tin persuasion the Berliner Morgenpost's analysis of the vote past times using the links running along the bottom of the map. The 'Rechtruck' link, for example, shows a choropleth persuasion of the AfD's vote part across the capital. This shows that the political party genuinely performed reasonably good across the whole metropolis as well as alone failed to acquire below 5% of the vote inwards 33 of the 653 electoral areas.


This calendar week besides saw the unloose of a novel go fourth dimension interactive map, from Urbica, called Galton. The map tin assistance yous uncovering how far yous tin walk or crusade inwards 10 minutes inside major cities approximately the world.

To uncovering out how far yous tin walk or crusade inwards 10 or 20 minutes yous only ask to motility the dark point on the map to the starting indicate of your journey. The night bluish expanse volition as well as then exhibit yous how far yous tin walk (or drive) inwards 10 minutes. While the lite bluish expanse shows where yous could walk inwards 20 minutes.

The go fourth dimension algorithm used past times Galton uses the Open Source Routing Machine alongside OpenStreetMap map information to operate out the go fourth dimension distances. The projection code of Galton is opened upwards as well as available on GitHub. You tin besides larn to a greater extent than close Galton as well as how it was developed on the Urbica blog.


Dark Sky furnish hyper-local atmospheric condition information alongside its iOS as well as Android apps. It besides provides a desktop atmospheric condition map which includes a 7 24-hour interval forecast of atmospheric condition conditions approximately the world.

The Dark Sky Weather Map provides the selection to persuasion global atmospheric condition conditions on an interactive 3d globe. The map includes a position out of dissimilar atmospheric condition layers which allow yous to persuasion a 7 24-hour interval forecast of temperature, atmospheric precipitation as well as air current speed approximately the world.

The Dark Sky 3d atmospheric condition visualization uses OpenLayers alongside the Cesium WebGL 3d globe engine. The Dark Sky Weather Map besides includes an selection to embed the atmospheric condition map as well as 3d globe on your ain website or blog.