Probably the well-nigh shared on-line interactive map of the final calendar week has been the Vaguely Rude Map.
The Vaguely Rude Map is a faithful compendium in addition to atlas of rude house names around the world. The map has proved peculiarly pop alongside British broadsheet newspapers, so I'm assuming that the map appeals somehow to the British feel of humour.
The map's creator Gary Gale has written a blog post explaining the British dear of innuendo in addition to how he created the map (the GeoPlanet API, Stamen map tiles, Leaflet & OSM). The map's GitHub fifty-fifty includes a warning, "
"If you're non British, it powerfulness last confusing why this is amusing".
The well-nigh shared non-nteractive map this calendar week has to last Neil Freeman's Fifty States of the USA map. This map takes a radical approach to fixing the electoral college.
Freeman argues that the biggest occupation alongside "the electoral college is that the states of the USA are also disparate inwards size in addition to influence". Freeman has thus redrawn the map of the USA alongside 50 novel states of equal population.
Somehow I can't encounter his proposal beingness adopted whatever fourth dimension soon.
My personal favourite this calendar week was Airbnb's mapped visualisation of their increment since 2008.
There are truly a few maps on Airbnb Annual only the outset map is the well-nigh impressive. I truly similar how the time-line on the map is controlled past times the browser scrollbar. Scroll downwardly on the page in addition to discovery how novel markers are added to the map equally the time-line progresses.
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