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Friday, February 12, 2021

Maps Of The Week


Esri has releaseded a dandy interactive presentation exploring Rio de Janeiro's preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games. Ready or Not, Let the Games Begins examines the impact on Rio, both positive as well as negative, of the infrastructure developments beingness made for the games as well as how these changes are affecting the urban nub as well as its citizens.

The interactive is divided into 5 primary sections looking at; the impact of construction projects, the displaced people living inward the favelas, the spread of the Zika virus, pollution as well as safety issues inward the city.

Because the presentation is created past times Esri many of these issues are, of course, illustrated amongst accompanying interactive maps. The interactive uses a floor map format, as well as thence that every bit you lot scroll through the presentation the maps automatically update to illustrate the accompanying text. I especially similar how Map Swipe is used inward around of the maps to automatically let out as well as compare dissimilar base of operations map layers.


Fifty years agone Charles Whitman killed xiv people as well as wounded 32 others at the University of Texas. The Texas Standard has interviewed nearly 100 survivors of the UT Tower Shooting, including professors, students as well as reporters. You tin head to the interviews as well as persuasion archival paper reports & photos nearly the shooting on the Texas Standard's novel Tower History website.

Out of the Blue: fifty Years After the UT Tower Shooting features a prominent interactive campus map of the University of Texas at Austin. The map markers allow you lot to head to oculus witness accounts of the UT Tower Shooting. As good every bit allowing you lot to head to the interviews many of the markers include textual reports as well as archival photos.

The map itself is a actually nicely designed custom map of the campus site. It has been made interactive using the Leaflet.js mapping platform.


Eighteen of the peak Twenty neighborhoods for task access inward New York City are inward Manhattan. If you lot alive inward Manhattan at that spot are an average of 4,128,263 jobs accessible inside i hr past times world transit.

You tin role the Rudin Center's NYC Neighborhoods: Mobility as well as Economic Opportunity interactive map to persuasion the number of jobs available inside i hr of move inward each of NYC's neighborhoods. If you lot pick out a neighborhood on the map you lot tin persuasion a basic isochrone layer showing the neighborhoods inward hit of 30, 45 as well as sixty minutes of move on world transit.

You tin likewise persuasion details on the number of jobs accessible inside sixty minutes of move as well as the types of task (by industry). The data panel includes other details nearly the neighborhood, such every bit the population total, median income as well as the unemployment charge per unit of measurement of the selected neighborhood.