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Friday, August 13, 2021

Maps Of The Week


My favorite map this calendar week was this fun game from Esri. GeoJigsaw is an inspired interactive map jigsaw puzzle. The game allows y'all to select jumbled upwards maps from around the world. All y'all cause got to practise is to set all the jigsaw pieces dorsum together to consummate the map.

You tin move select jigsaw map puzzles to play yesteryear place or yesteryear difficulty level. If y'all can't detect a map that y'all similar don't worry. You tin move only zoom inward on whatever place inward the globe together with practise your ain jigsaw map puzzle.


This calendar week Google released a actually overnice story map exploring Jane Goodall's question on chimps inward Gombe Park, Tanzania. The map takes nifty wages of Google's recent Street View imagery captured inward the national park.

The Gombe Park Street View Trek follows a directly familiar format for story maps. To progress through the interactive y'all only continue scrolling downward the page. As y'all scroll through the Trek y'all tin move sentiment highlights from Google's Street View imagery inward the common together with larn to a greater extent than close Goodall's groundbreaking research.


This Google Maps based 2014 Toronto Municipal Election map is a actually nicely designed visualization of the recent Toronto elections. The map allows y'all to explore how each electoral ward voted together with besides provides information on a attain of socio-economic information close each ward together with subdivision.

If y'all mouse-over a ward section on the map y'all tin move sentiment a breakdown of the percent of votes cast for each candidate. The voting breakdown besides includes the percent of votes cast for each candidate inward the whole election ward together with inward the whole city. This way y'all tin move easily compare the voting tape of each sub-division alongside the whole ward together with alongside the overall results,

When y'all mouse-over a sub-division on the map y'all tin move besides sentiment data, beneath the map, on the education, income together with describe of piece of occupation of voters inward the selected ward.