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Friday, April 2, 2021

Maps Of The Week


This calendar week Swiss paper Tages Anzeiger created an interesting mapped information visualization exploring the demographics of Zurich neighborhoods. The visualization centers around the magically transformation of autobus road lines into interactive describe graphs, inwards lodge to highlight the demographic differences betwixt the unlike neighborhoods.

The interactive map inwards Zürichs Gegensätze presents 2 autobus routes inwards the Swiss urban heart of Zurich. As you lot scroll through the visualization the autobus lines transform into interactive describe graphs showing the demographic differences around each bus-stop, such every bit average incomes, average age, the immigrant population, nascency & expiry rates, manly somebody & woman somebody ratios together with spousal human relationship & divorce rates.

If you lot click on the 'schematisch' together with 'geografisch' links at the tiptop of the page you lot tin dismiss switch betwixt the graph together with map view. When you lot switch betwixt the 2 views the road polylines magically animate betwixt a road describe on the map together with a demographic describe graph.


This calendar week the Center for America Progress besides released an impressive mapped visualization. The Disappearing West interactive map allows you lot to explore the huge sum of natural soil which is beingness lost to evolution inwards the Western United States.

Every 150 seconds a football game field's worth of natural opened upwardly soil is lost to evolution inwards the Western United States. Scientists from the Conservation Science Partners direct maintain analysed satellite imagery together with world information to decide how much soil inwards the West is beingness developed, at what charge per unit of measurement together with why this is happening.

The map presents a choropleth thought of the Western USA showing how much soil has been lost to evolution inwards every county betwixt 2001 together with 2011. If you lot press the 'Local' push you lot tin dismiss thought a heat-map of the same data, providing a to a greater extent than localized view. Press the 'State' push together with you lot tin dismiss thought a choropleth layer showing the sum of soil lost inwards each state. The map besides includes a timeline which allows you lot to select a unlike yr to meet how much soil was lost from 2001 until your chosen year.


Jewish Warsaw is a fascinating work organisation human relationship of the long history of the Jewish community inwards the Polish capital. It examines the urban heart through the eyes of some of Warsaw's most influential Jewish citizens together with examines some of the important, oftentimes turbulent, historical events that direct maintain effected Jewish citizens inwards Warsaw.

The Janusz Korczak department of Jewish Warsaw presents 2 interactive mapped journeys exploring the life of the famous Jewish educator together with children's author. One of the maps takes you lot on a journeying through Korczak's life inwards pre-war Warsaw. The other map recounts Korczak's bravery inwards World War II together with his deportation together with expiry at Treblinka extermination campsite

In the Past together with Present department you lot tin dismiss thin to a greater extent than most the history of the Jewish community inwards Warsaw through a serial of interactive vintage maps of the city. This department includes an work organisation human relationship of the long history of Jews inwards Warsaw, a mapped work organisation human relationship of the Jewish ghetto together with the Holocaust inwards World War II together with a publish of walking tours through the Warsaw of today.