Elevation information played an of import business office inwards ii of my favorite maps this week. Mundialis is a beautiful novel interactive topographical map of the populace and XG - globe Bathymetry is a WebGL globe showing planet globe without all its water.
The globe Bathymetry globe uses information from NASA's Blue Marble to render a stance of the undersea province surface too H2O depth. The shading of the ocean flooring indicates changes inwards gradient or depth.
Mundialis uses SRTM DEM 450m peak data, too bathymetry ocean & lake information (from Natural globe & NGDC respectively) to render a relief map of the world. The map equally good includes the pick to stance an OpenStreetMap route map layer on piece of job past times of the topographical map or on its ain equally the base of operations map.
This calendar week CartoDB released a actually interesting mapped visualization of 311 dissonance complaints inwards New York. The map allows you lot to explore the pose out of complaints made to New York's non-emergency service hotline past times location, fourth dimension of day, type of dissonance electrical load too past times flavor of the year.
The Noise inwards New York map starts amongst a really useful introduction which guides you lot through some of the filtering options that you lot tin gain the axe brand on the map. The introduction non solely shows you lot how to explore the information it equally good provides some interesting insights abut dissonance complaints inwards New York. For event it reveals that Manhattan is the loudest house inwards the city.
The Berliner Morgenpost's equally good created a actually overnice mapped visualization this week, Zugezogenen Atlas, allows you lot to explore where non-native Berliners were originally born. The map shows locations some the populace where at to the lowest degree 100 Berliners were born, based on the population register of June 2015.
Hamburg, Dresen too Leipzieg are the piece of job past times 3 High German cities where non-native Berliners were born. When you lot grade cities some the populace past times the pose out of people at 1 time living inwards Berlin who were born there, hence the piece of job past times unusual metropolis is Szczecin (Poland), followed past times Wroclaw (Poland) too Moscow. Paris is ranked 82nd, London is 96th too New York is 123rd.
