James Cheshire as well as Ed Manley's maps of the Twitter Languages of London as well as the Twitter Languages of New York convey rightly proved really pop visualisations of the multi-cultural nature of both cities.
Inspired yesteryear James as well as Ed's maps Simon Jackson has forthwith created a like map for Melbourne. Tweets of Melbourne uses ESRI maps as well as information from Nov 2012. Simon says he is updating the map amongst novel information every weekend.
One of the most interesting aspects of the map for me is the position out of Asian languages existence used inward the city. It is shame that Twitter is then young. It would convey been interesting to sentiment a like map from the 1970's. In 1975 Commonwealth of Australia dropped it's controversial 'White Commonwealth of Australia Policy'. Does this map reverberate a wider realignment of Australia's geopolitics away from Europe towards closer integration amongst its South East Asian neighbours?
Metropolitain is a information visualisation of traffic on the Paris Metro. Users tin click on whatever of the city's Metro stations as well as sentiment information on how many passengers passed through the station inward 2011.
The Metro map includes a slap-up 3d sentiment that allows the user to plow a 2nd oestrus map of traffic on the Metro organisation into a slap-up contour map of Metro traffic.
The World Food Programme's Hunger Map shows the prevalence of undernourishment inward countries around the globe every bit of 2010 - 2012. The indicator is an jurist of the per centum of the population having access to an sum of unloosen energy from nutrient insufficient to hold a salubrious life.
Users tin click on private countries on the map as well as larn to a greater extent than nigh the nutrient safety province of affairs inward that province as well as the WFP's run inward the province using the tab controls inward the map sidebar.
