The Crap Is Dorsum On The Map

This calendar week San Francisco's crap is dorsum on the map, amongst a novel animated visualization of human waste materials constitute on the streets of the Californian city.

One of my all fourth dimension favorite styled Google Maps is Jennifer Wong's (Human) Wasteland map. The map uses San Francisco Department of Public Works information to produce a steaming heat-map persuasion of human waste materials inwards San Francisco. The map mightiness non hold upward the nearly edifying of Google Maps but you lot can't fence that the color choices are only appropriate to the bailiwick on the map.


Now mortal else has taken the San Francisco Department of Public Works information on human waste materials constitute on the streets of San Francisco to produce an animated Torque powered map. The Reports of Human Waste map allows you lot to persuasion the daily recordings of human waste materials inwards the metropolis yesteryear place from 2008 to 20015.

Torque powered animated maps produce got inwards the yesteryear been defendant of beingness crap burger cartography. One work amongst a lot of these animated maps is that the fourth dimension dimension oft seems unnecessary. The temporal appear of this Reports of Human Waste map but mightiness add together something to our agreement of this work of people using San Francisco streets equally their ain al fresco toilet.

The hot-spots on the map actually don't seem to alter over time. However it does appear that the work of human waste materials on San Francisco's streets is getting worse in addition to worse over time.