I was rattling impressed this calendar week amongst the Urban Institute's World's Apart map. The map has the unproblematic objective of showing alone the top 10% well-nigh advantaged neighborhoods together with the neighborhoods dwelling to the bottom 10%. This unproblematic thought starkly reveals the economical dividing lines inward America's cities.
The World's Apart map shows a familiar designing across much of the United States, where cities are vastly divided into rich together with piteous areas. The less advantaged predominantly alive inward dense fundamental urban neighborhoods, spell the rich alive inward suburbs, good exterior the limits of the metropolis centers.
The map includes the option to thought the information for the census years of 1990, 2000 together with 2010. This option reveals that at that topographic point has been fiddling modify over the decades. The designing of suburban wealth together with inner-city deprivation has remained largely unchanged over fourth dimension together with also shows that rich neighborhoods tend to rest rich together with the piteous neighborhoods tend to rest poor.
I stimulate got spent a lot of fourth dimension this calendar week browsing the BFI's Map of Britain on Film. The map is an amazing means to footstep dorsum inward fourth dimension together with thought historical cinema footage of locations throughout the UK.
Zoom-in on an surface area on the map (or purpose the search box) together with yous tin honor nearby locations which characteristic inward quondam films. You tin therefore click on the displayed map markers together with sentinel a video of the selected vintage film. The map features thousands of film, providing an amazing insight into British life inward the Twentieth Century.
As good every bit searching past times location, yous tin search this mapped archive of historical cinema past times decade together with past times subject. I stimulate got definitely spent to a greater extent than fourth dimension viewing this map (and the linked vintage films) than whatever other map. Every province should stimulate got their ain version of this map.
Stage 17 of this year's Tour de French Republic includes the pop Col d'Allos mount stage. The Col'Allos is ane of the well-nigh pop mount passes inward the Tour de France. This twelvemonth volition survive the 34th fourth dimension the road has been included inward the race.
The Wall Street Journal has taken a detailed expect at the large descents inward this year's Tour de France. The Madness of the Descent looks inward especial at the Col d'Allos. During Stage 17, later on a steep climb, with an average slope of 5.5%, the riders volition confront a 10 mile descent, where they volition lose 3,400 feet inward vertical elevation.
The Wall Street Journal's article includes an impressive 3d map of the Cal d'Allos pass. The 3d Col D’Allos visualization was created amongst WebGL together with three.js. If yous select ane of the 3 xanthous map markers the graphic pans together with rotates to highlight unlike views of the Col D'Allos descent.
