The Maps Of The Week

According to this map the world's straightest roads are inward the American Mid-West as well as the Canadian prairies. How Straight or Bendy are the World's Roads is a Leaflet powered map showing the straightness of the world's roads (or at to the lowest degree all the roads that bring so far been added to OpenStreetMap).

Each route on OpenStreetMap has been given a 'bendyness ratio', which was calculated past times dividing its length past times the forthwith business deviation betwixt its terminate points. The map is divided into equal sized squares. Each foursquare on the map is so colored past times the straightness of all the roads inward that square.


Jim Vallandingham has created a publish of force-directed maps to powerfully visualize segregation inward United States of America cities. In each of the maps the close segregated neighborhoods are animated every bit they force away from other neighborhoods. The gaps betwixt the neighborhoods is based on the differences inward the proportion of the white as well as dark populations inward each neighborhood census tract.

Visualizing The Racial Divide includes maps for thirteen American cities, including St Louis, Chicago as well as Baltimore. Select the push clit for 1 of the urban amount maps as well as the areas amongst the close segregated populations force away from the neighboring areas, patch areas of homogeneity rest largely static.

The information is based on the 2010 census as well as the visualization was created using d3.js.


Hikers, anglers, climbers as well as other outdoor enthusiasts at nowadays bring their real ain map. The Natural Atlas is a novel community driven map for those who dearest the non bad outdoors.

Natural Atlas is built upon OpenStreetMap data. The map all the same has been lovingly styled to supply all the information that the outdoor enthusiast volition involve from a map. This includes contour lines, tree encompass as well as H2O features. The map symbols used on the map are National Park Service mode icons to demonstrate the locations of campsites, picnic areas as well as other recreation areas.

Currently Natural Atlas covers Wyoming, Montana, as well as Idaho. However Natural Atlas plans to add together other states over the adjacent few months.