How Germany Moves

Telefonica West has used mobile scream information to visualize the movements of every unmarried German linguistic communication yesteryear lx minutes as well as yesteryear day. The consequence is a huge animated interactive map which reveals the daily commuting patterns of the whole population inward every German linguistic communication town as well as city.

So bewegt sich Deutschland is an animated map which uses anonymous location information from mobile phones to present the movements of Germans yesteryear air as well as yesteryear road. Five billion information points are generated every 24-hour interval yesteryear Germans equally they displace to a greater extent than or less the dry soil amongst their mobile phones. This map visualizes that information to present the movements of Germans over a typical week. For reasons of safety each of the moving markers on the map represents a large expose of anonymous travelers non private Germans.

Using the map it is possible to zoom inward on private towns as well as cities to stance when close people commute to as well as from work. In fact if yous type inward a postcode yous tin displace encounter at what fourth dimension the average commuter inward that surface area starts their 24-hour interval as well as how that compares to the national average. You tin displace equally good notice how large a catchment surface area for commuters each metropolis has. For illustration people commute into Hamburg from much larger distances than those commuting inward as well as out of Munich.