Google Fusion Tables – New York City Census Analysis

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  Simple wins out every time.  Case in point, working with demographic information.  Sure you can spin it up all up in a spatial database, analyse it with R and then output some pretty PDFs.  Or just roll it all in to Google Fusion Tables and output this beautiful thing.

WNYC 2010 Census Maps

John Keefe shows how he did it.  Spoiler alert!

Using Google Fusion Tables made it super easy to manage, map and serve up a lot of data. And the FT feedback team was fantastic about responding to questions and glitches I encountered along the way.

Yup, love it!  I can even embed it here.  Great job!

2010 Tour De France on Bing Maps

2010 Tour De France on Bing Maps

Tour de France Bing Maps App

Bing Maps includes elevation gain, slope (-/+%) with an interactive profile chart linked to the map route of each stage.

The 2010 Tour De France Bing Maps app:
This app is designed to help you visualise the overall race, the stages (stages tab + numbers) and how variables such as weather & elevation (elevation profiles) will impact each stage. Results will be updated along the way in the ‘Results’ tab.
Check the content in the ‘Stages’ and ‘Results’ tabs as you keep track of the greatest cycling race in the world.

Pegmans Gets A Hat

Pegmans Gets A Hat

Pegman finds a Hat
Pegman gets a Christmas hat for the weekend? http://goo.gl/maps/jAgL
Predictions – 2011 will bring,
A new perspective to old fashioned raster maps… with the help of HTML5.
OpenStreetMap will go mainstream… more so than at present.
AddressPoint (UK Postal Address locations) become more accessible without huge costs.
Fusion Tables SPATIAL will improve vastly.
Best of 2010 mapping
Opendata from Ordnance Survey. (No April Fools there)
Ovi Maps downloads maps via wifi to phone (no more Ovi Suite!)
Bing Maps Apps more usable adding OpenStreetMap.
MapQuest pump $1million in Open Source Data.