Maps Of The Week

Elevation information played an of import constituent inwards 2 of my favorite maps this week. Mundialis is a beautiful novel interactive topographical map of the populace and XG - basis Bathymetry is a WebGL globe showing planet basis without all its water.

The basis Bathymetry globe uses information from NASA's Blue Marble to render a persuasion of the undersea province surface as well as H2O depth. The shading of the body of body of water flooring indicates changes inwards gradient or depth.

Mundialis uses SRTM DEM 450m superlative data, as well as bathymetry body of body of water & lake information (from Natural basis & NGDC respectively) to render a relief map of the world. The map likewise includes the selection to persuasion an OpenStreetMap route map layer on overstep of the topographical map or on its ain equally the base of operations map.


This calendar week CartoDB released a actually interesting mapped visualization of 311 dissonance complaints inwards New York. The map allows y'all to explore the release of complaints made to New York's non-emergency service hotline yesteryear location, fourth dimension of day, type of dissonance electrical load as well as yesteryear flavour of the year.

The Noise inwards New York map starts amongst a really useful introduction which guides y'all through some of the filtering options that y'all tin brand on the map. The introduction non alone shows y'all how to explore the information it likewise provides some interesting insights abut dissonance complaints inwards New York. For instance it reveals that Manhattan is the loudest house inwards the city.


The Berliner Morgenpost's likewise created a actually prissy mapped visualization this week, Zugezogenen Atlas, allows y'all to explore where non-native Berliners were originally born. The map shows locations around the populace where at to the lowest degree 100 Berliners were born, based on the population register of June 2015.

Hamburg, Dresen as well as Leipzieg are the overstep 3 High German cities where non-native Berliners were born. When y'all order cities around the populace yesteryear the release of people straightaway living inwards Berlin who were born there, as well as thus the overstep unusual urban substance is Szczecin (Poland), followed yesteryear Wroclaw (Poland) as well as Moscow. Paris is ranked 82nd, London is 96th as well as New York is 123rd.