The Flat Route Finder was the most shared map on social media at the commencement of the week. While, afterwards its unloosen on Friday, the Hate Map chop-chop went viral on social media in addition to close equally chop-chop was picked upward yesteryear a issue of the websites of the national in addition to international press.
The Hate Map is a oestrus map of offensive messages made on Twitter. The map shows the stone oil place of every geocoded tweet inwards the United U.S. of A. from June 2012 - Apr 2013 that contained i or to a greater extent than of 10 'hate words'.
The offensive words mapped include 'racist', 'homophobic' in addition to 'anti-disability' terms. Users of the map tin persuasion oestrus maps non solely of these full general themes but tin equally good explore oestrus maps of the 10 private abhor words.
As a semi-keen cyclist the affair I abhor most inwards the footing (after cars, buses in addition to trucks) is hills. I really, actually abhor hills.
Thankfully I tin immediately piece of occupation the Flat Route Finder to honour cycling routes that avoid the steepest slopes. The Flat Route Finder uses the Google Maps peak service to advise the flattest possible cycling route. Two peak graphs are equally good provided to present y'all the steepest parts of the road in addition to the road itself is colour-coded to present y'all the easiest in addition to most hard stages of the journey.
Also this week, The New York Times published an interesting Medicare Map that shows how much dissimilar hospitals accuse Medicare throughout the country, for the same treatment.
The map compares the charges made at 3,300 hospitals nationwide for the 100 most ordinarily performed treatments in addition to procedures. The colored markers on the map present whether private hospitals charged less than the average (blue markers), 1 to two times the average (yellow) or twice the national average (red).
