New Maps Of The Week
January 16, 2019
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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 xx immigrants together with the dots are colored past times 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 yous zoom inwards on most cities on the map yous tin run across how immigrants from the same full general portion of beginning oft appear to cluster inwards the same neighborhoods. The 'about' page contains to a greater extent than information almost 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 UK housing maps raised some interesting questions this week. The Guardian newspaper's Unaffordable Country visualizes identify toll inwards England & Wales. The map allows yous to run across where yous tin afford to purchase a belongings based on your annual income. Unfortunately yous in all likelihood can't afford to purchase a identify inwards most of the country.
The choropleth map colours postcode areas based on the cost of belongings inwards the area. Type inwards your average salary together with the map volition exhibit yous all the areas where yous tin afford to alive - or, every bit is to a greater extent than likely, all the places inwards the province where yous can't afford to live.
One of the reasons belongings prices inwards the UK are hence high is because of the issue of buildings owned past times offshore companies. Satirical magazine Private Eye this calendar week published an interactive map which shows the sum of English linguistic communication & Welsh ground that has been bought past times these offshore companies.
Selling England past times the Offshore Pound uses Land Registry information to plot all ground parcels registered inwards the advert of an offshore companionship betwixt 2005 together with July 2014. One await at the map together with yous tin state that at that topographic point are a lot of properties inwards the UK right away registered to overseas owners.
MasterMaps has created a actually impressive mapped visualization of the Arctic H2O ice cap. The Arctic Sea Ice map allows yous to compare the monthly ocean H2O ice encompass inwards the Arctic for whatever calendar month since 2006.
If yous choose a calendar month from the bottom timeline yous tin hence purpose the elevation timeline to brand a straight comparing of whatever calendar month for each twelvemonth from 2006 to 2015. Every fourth dimension yous suit the timeline the Arctic run across H2O ice coverage is automatically updated on the map.