Guardian Government Computing: Scottish Boundary Commission to publish shapefiles of constituency boundaries
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:15
"The Boundary Commission for Scotland (BCS) has said it will publish shapefiles of its initial proposals for constituencies after the Boundary Commission for England (BCE) was criticised for not doing so."
Guardian Government Computing: Boundary Commission defends release of pdfs of new constituency boundaries
Thursday, 15 September 2011, 12:32
"The Boundary Commission for England (BCE) has defended its decision to release more than 500 pdf maps of proposed Parliamentary constituencies, stating that they believe they provided "an appropriate level of detail". … The decision w…
Texas Tribune: Interactive: Visualizing the Lege’s Proposed Texas Congressional Districts
Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 08:21
"On [this map], congressional districts as they are currently drawn are to the left of the split; to the right of the split are the districts as redrawn by the Legislature. Click on a district to highlight it in yellow on both sides of the split, …
Newspaper map
Monday, 16 May 2011, 08:30
Very impressive: "all online newspapers in the world" on one Google Map, by Great Name of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Telegraph: AV referendum: What if a general election were held today under AV?
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:56
Interesting analysis on a Fusion Tables based map: "This new analysis suggests the result of the 2010 general election would have resulted in the Labour Party gaining more seats than the Conservative Party, using predictions for second and third p…
Press Gazette: Northumbria Police reveals one per cent of crimes
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 13:01
A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said: “The introduction of a series of crime mapping systems, with the latest national system launched in January 2011, negates any suggestion that we withhold crimes from the public. The numbers, categories and locat…
maptd: What real estate agents don’t tell you
Monday, 18 April 2011, 12:00
"Trulia’s impressive new price reductions map visualizes real estate sales by zip code area. The map provides market intelligence for both home-buyers and sellers, displaying information about how quickly property prices drop, by how much, and t…
Google Maps Mania: Government Cuts on Google Maps
Friday, 1 April 2011, 13:27
Several attempts being made to plot local spending cuts on a map, including crowdsourcing efforts by Channel 4 and the Guardian.
maptd: Worldwide map of nuclear power stations and earthquake zones
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:31
Good global map of nuclear power stations vs seismic activity.
Currybet.net: The Telegraph’s Conrad Quilty-Harper on why crime maps are rubbish
Friday, 18 March 2011, 00:17
"[Conrad Quilty-Harper]said that problems include that crimes lack unique IDs, the categories of crime are too broad, and as a reporter he wants to know which crimes happened yesterday, so that he can be working on the story today, not what happen…
BBC News:- Broadband speed mapped for BBC Look East research
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 14:20
"BBC Look East is calling for people in the East of England to find out their home broadband speed, as part of the TV programme's week-long special. … Home broadband users can take part by plotting their speed onto an interactive map."
Adrian Short: police.uk official crime maps — there should be a law against it
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 17:07
"Spatial visualisation and analysis is enormously difficult to get right and even thoughtfully-designed visualisations require a fair bit of understanding to interpret correctly. … The newspapers that have run lists of the most crime-ridden str…
National Geographic Magazine: What’s in a Surname?
Monday, 31 January 2011, 17:06
"America is a nation of Smiths, Johnsons, and Sullivans—but also of Garcias and Nguyens. Zoom in on the map below to see what surnames proliferate in your part of the country."
Flowing Data: Adults with college degrees, over time
Monday, 31 January 2011, 16:09
"The strength of the [Chronicle of Higher Education's] interactive graphic is in the filters. They let readers zoom in on the group they're most interested in. Narrow down by a variety of demographics such as gender or race, as well as s…
