We've featured a lot of Carto DB Torque powered maps inwards the final month. This animated map of the geography of 400,000 hours of TV word is amid the well-nigh interesting.
The Internet Archive geo-coded 400,000 hours of the U.S. television receiver word as well as mapped the locations mentioned inwards each report. The Animated Geography of TV News map animates through the locations mentioned inwards the word providing a swell visualization of the countries as well as areas that have the well-nigh attending as well as the areas which are neglected past times American word (sorry Africa).
I dearest the slide command inwards the maps featured inwards this Urban Institute interactive. Washington DC - Our Changing City is a study on the population changes happening inwards Washington DC.
The interactive study includes a serial of maps comparison population as well as demographic changes inwards the American majuscule betwixt 2000 as well as 2010. Each map includes a slide command that allows the user to swipe across the map to compare the differences inwards point maps from the yr 2000 as well as 2010.
I've seen this type of slide command used earlier to compare earlier as well as later photographs. For example, I used a like command to compare aerial imagery from earlier as well as later the 2011 tornado inwards Tuscaloosa. However this is the offset fourth dimension I've seen a slide command used to compare 2 unlike map layers.
Johannes Gutenberg's excogitation of mechanical movable type printing inwards the 15th century was in all probability the well-nigh of import regain inwards the modern age. Gutenberg's excogitation arguably kick-started the Renaissance as well as undoubtedly led to the spread of learning amid the full general population inwards Europe.
The Atlas of Early Printing is a Google Map charting the spread of printing, from Gutenberg's offset movable type printer inwards 1452 inwards Mainz to the balance of Europe past times the goal of the 15th century. The map includes a timeline that allows you lot to visualize the ascent of printing presses throughout Europe over the course of study of the 15th century.
If you lot are bored at schoolhouse don't simply sit down at that spot mindlessly staring into space, buy the farm your holler out as well as part your boredom amongst the balance of the world.
The Real Time #Bored inwards School Map is a real-time map showing Tweets past times schoolkids who are bored inwards class. Since the map went alive on the 16th Dec at that spot has been over 43,000 bored Tweets. That is a lot of bored students.
As good every bit the map of alive Tweets the app keeps a running full of the lay out of 'bored' messages as well as a alive draw of piece of employment nautical chart of the lay out of Tweets made over the final hour.
