Maps Of The Week
Mapping Immigrant America is a point map showing the issue together with beginning of immigrants throughout the United States. Each point on the map represents twenty immigrants together with the dots are colored yesteryear the full general portion of origin. The information for the map comes from the 2009-2013 American Community Survey carried out at the census tract level.
If y'all zoom inwards on most cities on the map y'all tin encounter how immigrants from the same full general portion of beginning oft look to cluster inwards the same neighborhoods. The 'about' page contains to a greater extent than information most the information used together with how the map was created. It also reveals that some navigational tools, such every bit a search option, are inwards the pipeline.
Two U.K. housing maps raised some interesting questions this week. The Guardian newspaper's Unaffordable Country visualizes identify cost inwards England & Wales. The map allows y'all to encounter where y'all tin afford to purchase a holding based on your annual income. Unfortunately y'all likely can't afford to purchase a identify inwards most of the country.
The choropleth map colours postcode areas based on the cost of holding inwards the area. Type inwards your average salary together with the map volition demonstrate y'all all the areas where y'all tin afford to alive - or, every bit is to a greater extent than likely, all the places inwards the dry ground where y'all can't afford to live.
One of the reasons holding prices inwards the U.K. are therefore high is because of the issue of buildings owned yesteryear offshore companies. Satirical periodical Private Eye this calendar week published an interactive map which shows the sum of English linguistic communication & Welsh dry ground that has been bought yesteryear these offshore companies.
Selling England yesteryear the Offshore Pound uses Land Registry information to plot all dry ground parcels registered inwards the advert of an offshore fellowship betwixt 2005 together with July 2014. One await at the map together with y'all tin state that at that topographic point are a lot of properties inwards the U.K. at nowadays registered to overseas owners.
MasterMaps has created a actually impressive mapped visualization of the Arctic H2O ice cap. The Arctic Sea Ice map allows y'all to compare the monthly bounding main H2O ice comprehend inwards the Arctic for whatever calendar month since 2006.
If y'all lead a calendar month from the bottom timeline y'all tin therefore operate the meridian timeline to brand a at i time comparing of whatever calendar month for each yr from 2006 to 2015. Every fourth dimension y'all arrange the timeline the Arctic encounter H2O ice coverage is automatically updated on the map.
