Here's a link to an interesting NYT story, "Phone-call cartography," on mapping connectedness via data points from mobile phone calls. The accompanying map was produced by M.I.T.'s SENSEable City Lab using the origin and end point locations for cellphone traffic within the U.S. in July of last year. Phone-call cartography … [Read more...]
The 12 States of America
The website for The Atlantic magazine has an interesting new map graphic visualizing the ways in which income inequality has fractured the nation over the past 30 years. The graphic breaks the nation into 12 different 'states' - monied burbs, minority central, military bastions, evangelical epicenters, tractor country, campuses and careers, immigration nation, industrial … [Read more...]
NOAA visualizations of Japanese earthquake and tsunami
Below is a tsunami wave height model that shows the Pacific-wide impact of the event. The model was created by the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab: Description from NOAA: Model runs from the Center for Tsunami Research at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory show the expected wave heights of the tsunami as it travels across the Pacific basin. The … [Read more...]
Visualizing Japan crisis map inputs
Here's a new visualization that shows the locations worldwide that are submitting reports to the Ushahidi Japan Crisis Map. Click on the map to see full size image. … [Read more...]
Japanese earthquake – disaster/response maps
Here are some links to maps and map apps related to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I'll add more as they are released. From Google - Japan Crisis Response Map and Japan Crisis Response Info Page ESRI Japan Incident map - click here to read a story from Voice of America about crisis mapping that describes how info gets fed into ESRI's Japan Incident map. ESRI … [Read more...]