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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

The Maps Of The Week


According to this map the world's straightest roads are inwards the American Mid-West together with the Canadian prairies. How Straight or Bendy are the World's Roads is a Leaflet powered map showing the straightness of the world's roads (or at to the lowest degree all the roads that accept so far been added to OpenStreetMap).

Each route on OpenStreetMap has been given a 'bendyness ratio', which was calculated past times dividing its length past times the withdraw business deviation betwixt its halt points. The map is divided into equal sized squares. Each foursquare on the map is together with then colored past times the straightness of all the roads inwards that square.


Jim Vallandingham has created a release of force-directed maps to powerfully visualize segregation inwards United States of America cities. In each of the maps the nearly segregated neighborhoods are animated equally they force away from other neighborhoods. The gaps betwixt the neighborhoods is based on the differences inwards the proportion of the white together with dark populations inwards each neighborhood census tract.

Visualizing The Racial Divide includes maps for thirteen American cities, including St Louis, Chicago together with Baltimore. Select the push for 1 of the metropolis maps together with the areas amongst the nearly segregated populations force away from the neighboring areas, spell areas of homogeneity rest largely static.

The information is based on the 2010 census together with the visualization was created using d3.js.


Hikers, anglers, climbers together with other outdoor enthusiasts straightaway accept their really ain map. The Natural Atlas is a novel community driven map for those who honey the bully outdoors.

Natural Atlas is built upon OpenStreetMap data. The map notwithstanding has been lovingly styled to render all the information that the outdoor enthusiast volition need from a map. This includes contour lines, tree comprehend together with H2O features. The map symbols used on the map are National Park Service mode icons to present the locations of campsites, picnic areas together with other recreation areas.

Currently Natural Atlas covers Wyoming, Montana, together with Idaho. However Natural Atlas plans to add together other states over the adjacent few months.