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Saturday, July 24, 2021

Maps Of The Week


Mapping Immigrant America is a point map showing the issue as well as rootage of immigrants throughout the United States. Each point on the map represents xx immigrants as well as the dots are colored yesteryear the full general percentage of origin. The information for the map comes from the 2009-2013 American Community Survey carried out at the census tract level.

If you lot zoom inwards on most cities on the map you lot tin transportation away run across how immigrants from the same full general percentage of rootage oft appear to cluster inwards the same neighborhoods. The 'about' page contains to a greater extent than information close the information used as well as how the map was created. It also reveals that some navigational tools, such equally a search option, are inwards the pipeline.


Two U.K. housing maps raised some interesting questions this week. The Guardian newspaper's Unaffordable Country visualizes identify toll inwards England & Wales. The map allows you lot to run across where you lot tin transportation away afford to purchase a belongings based on your annual income. Unfortunately you lot in all probability can't afford to purchase a identify inwards most of the country.

The choropleth map colours postcode areas based on the cost of belongings inwards the area. Type inwards your average salary as well as the map volition present you lot all the areas where you lot tin transportation away afford to alive - or, equally is to a greater extent than likely, all the places inwards the province where you lot can't afford to live.


One of the reasons belongings prices inwards the U.K. are therefore high is because of the issue of buildings owned yesteryear offshore companies. Satirical periodical Private Eye this calendar week published an interactive map which shows the total of English linguistic communication & Welsh solid ground that has been bought yesteryear these offshore companies.

Selling England yesteryear the Offshore Pound uses Land Registry information to plot all solid ground parcels registered inwards the cite of an offshore society betwixt 2005 as well as July 2014. One await at the map as well as you lot tin transportation away state that at that topographic point are a lot of properties inwards the U.K. at nowadays registered to overseas owners.


MasterMaps has created a actually impressive mapped visualization of the Arctic H2O ice cap. The Arctic Sea Ice map allows you lot to compare the monthly bounding main H2O ice encompass inwards the Arctic for whatever calendar month since 2006.

If you lot guide a calendar month from the bottom timeline you lot tin transportation away therefore travel the meridian timeline to brand a right away comparing of whatever calendar month for each twelvemonth from 2006 to 2015. Every fourth dimension you lot adapt the timeline the Arctic run across H2O ice coverage is automatically updated on the map.