The Toronto Star now has a blog dedicated to highlighting a “Map of the Week”. These maps are not necessarily linked to particular stories, although that might happen along the way. They are using Google Maps as their base. Check out their Gratuitous Map of Canada’s Olympic Athletes hometowns or Urban Bees.
Here is a cool animation from FlowingData showing how Walmart has spread across the United States over time.
Click on the image above to view the animation.
Google Sightseeing is a website that takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using Google Earth or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday the website presents new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers. I particularly like their tagline- “Why bother seeing the world for real?” Here are a couple of recent examples:
I saw this posting on the Google Earth Blog and thought this might be the next gadget to get once it is finalized. This was showcased at the 2008 Where 2.0 conference by a Boulder, Colorado company called earthscape. This is a 3D Earth application that earthscape is working on for the iPhone. Below is a video of the demo provided.
Read the full posting here.
Well, here it is. The last major release of 2006 Census Data. Today (May 1, 2008) marks the release of Income and earnings and housing and shelter costs. I am providing some links to some of these ways of seeing the latest Census release. Check out the new Census Trends pages, which provides some interesting time series comparisons. Enjoy.
Article in The Daily (Statistics Canada newsletter)
2006 Census: Income and Earnings – Main Page
2006 Census: Housing and Shelter Costs – Main Page
Complete cumulative profile, including Income and earnings, and shelter costs
Census Tract (CT) Profiles, 2006 Census
Option 1 – Find census tract data using a postal code
Option 2 – Find census tract data using GeoSearch2006
Option 3 – Find census tract data using a census tract name
GeoSearch 2006
Includes ability to do some basic thematic mapping by Census Tract and link to CT profiles.
2006 Census Thematic Maps
A thematic map shows the spatial distribution of one or more specific data themes for standard geographic areas. The map may be qualitative in nature (e.g., predominant farm types) or quantitative (e.g., percentage population change).
The maps can be viewed on the Internet (www.statcan.ca) and downloaded for free (as PDF or EXE files).
They are in colour and the map dimensions are 21.6 cm by 27.9 cm (8.5 inches x 11 inches).
Census trends NEW
This new product presents a series of summary data trends spanning three censuses: 2006, 2001 and 1996. The product is designed to facilitate the analysis and comparison of the changing demographic and socio-economic composition of selected geographic areas across Canada. The product will include approximately 85 key data indicators, released in two phases.
Option 1 – Selected data indicators for a geography
Option 2 – Compare a level of geography for a selected data indicator
Option 3 – Compare data indicators for two geographies