Last week's United Nations climate modify altitude inward New York seems to convey led to a rising inward the global output of surroundings maps. This calendar week 3 environmental maps actually caught my eye.
The Changing Global Emissions Map and the FFDAS Map are ii nicely designed maps which visualize CO2 emissions or in addition to so the world. Using either of the maps y'all tin discovery the carbon emissions of whatsoever province or in addition to so the world.
This calendar week too saw the unloose of the Carbon Footprint Map, which visualizes the average annual identify carbon footprint of zip code areas inward the United States. The map reveals a clear pattern inward large cities, which shows that those living inward the middle of cities convey a lower identify carbon footprint than those living inward urban nub suburbs.
This calendar week I was too impressed past times this campus map of Essex University. In item this map has a bang-up management service, which provides directions betwixt whatsoever ii campus buildings.
The Essex University campus map, WAI2Go, non solely looks beautiful it too has a give away of actually useful navigation features. The custom built directions service tin render directions betwixt whatsoever ii points on campus. You tin fifty-fifty asking the 'shortest route', a 'step gratis route' or an 'indoor road (where possible).
Another bang-up characteristic of the Essex University campus map is its indoor maps. Select the 'campus overview' selection in addition to y'all tin persuasion indoor map plans for dissimilar buildings in addition to fifty-fifty the dissimilar flooring levels inward each building.
Combine this alongside the directions service in addition to y'all tin apace detect your road betwixt whatsoever ii rooms on campus. Click on a room in addition to y'all tin select 'directions to' or 'directions from' this room. I actually similar how the management service manages to navigate users betwixt dissimilar flooring levels on their journey.
There are 28 megacities inward the world, cities alongside a population inward excess of 10 million. This Esri map looks at the increase of x of these megacites or in addition to so the globe over the final century.
The Age of Megacities maps the increase of x global megacities past times examining the expanding urban footprint of each urban nub over the years. For each of the megacities y'all tin persuasion a serial of map overlays, showing the size of the urban nub at dissimilar times inward the final 1 hundred years or so.
For illustration the map of Chicago allows y'all to persuasion the city's urban extent inward 1929, 1954, 1972 in addition to inward 2014. It is thence possible to persuasion how Chicago has grown since 1929. As good equally Chicago, You tin too piece of job the map to visualize the increase of Tokyo, Shanghai, United Mexican States City, Sao Paulo, Lagos, Los Angeles, Paris, London in addition to Johannesburg,
