The Geopolitical Maps Of The Week
The Oregonian has used CartoDB's Torque library to practise an animated map of terrorism deaths around the footing from 2001-2014. Deaths past times Terrorism, 2001-2014 shows worldwide fatal terrorist attacks past times month.
There is ever the danger amongst Torque powered animated maps that the information only becomes flashing dots on a map. On its ain the animated information over fourth dimension on this map in all probability wouldn't reveal much close international terrorism. However the Oregonian has too added a distich of other information layers to the map to render some much needed context.
The 'Deaths past times Country' alternative adds a choropleth layer to the map, showing the let out of terrorism deaths past times province around the world. The 'Narrative' alternative allows you lot to pick out each private terrorist attacks on the map to sentiment a summary close the assault as well as the master copy intelligence source for the data.
123 countries around the footing are currently involved inwards territorial disputes. For example, the USA is currently involved inwards territorial disputes amongst Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti, Colombia, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Honduras, the Republic of the Marshall Islands as well as Tokelau.
A World of Disputed Territories is an interactive map of all the territories around the footing whose ownership is contested past times to a greater extent than than i country. By selecting a province on the map you lot tin plow over the sack sentiment all its electrical flow territorial disputes as well as who those disputes are with.
After you lot pick out a province on the map all the country's currently disputed territories are colored yellowish on the map as well as all the other countries involved inwards the dispute(s) are colored blue. Select i of the disputed territories (colored yellow) as well as you lot tin plow over the sack read a brief written report on the nature of the dispute as well as the countries involved.
Global Migration Data maps migration patterns around the footing on a 3D globe. The map shows the let out of migrants to as well as from each province as well as which countries they traveled to or from. The information comes from the United Nations Dept of Economic & Social Affairs for the years 1990, 2000, 2010 as well as 2013.
Global Migration Data is real slowly to use. Simply pick out a province from the drop-down menu. You tin plow over the sack as well as therefore pick out to sentiment either inbound or outbound migration for your chosen country. The time-line at the bottom of the map allows you lot to pick out which year's migration information you lot want to visualize on the globe.
The 3D globe shows the spatial patterns of migration, visualizing which countries around the footing migrants traveled to or from for your selected country. The dashboard below the map shows the full let out of migrants (inbound or outbound depending on your electrical flow choice) as well as the let out of countries migrants are from or the let out of countries migrants moved to.
