Cars.com recently put together an interesting interactive map of towns across America that are addicted to American muscle cars. The Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger’s popularity is shown based on search volume in towns. As Cars.com specifically explains it to us:
Read MoreOne of the first things we realized when starting nuCloud is that our map tools can be used for so much more than just campus maps. Any sort of virtual tour that can be accomplished through a map is a possible use of the software. Because we have a strong background in higher education it makes sense for us to start with that market, but it is by no means the only viable solution. Part of demonstrating these different uses is giving examples. By clicking on the image below you can see an example of our mapping tool used to explore historic Fenway Park in Boston, MA.
Read MoreHave you caught World Cup fever yet? With the World Cup starting in less than a day it’s important to know when your favorite teams are playing and who.
Read MoreFor almost a month now a deep-water oil well has been gushing over 200,000 gallons of oil a day. This catastrophic event has essentially shut down fishing in much of the gulf coast and is another reminder of why the US and whole world must find other forms of energy beyond oil. With this epic event there has been no lack of media coverage and many news outlets have looked to interactive maps to help tell the story. Here are six such maps:
Read MoreFor anyone who has been to the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC, the 250 room mansion is only part of the experience. There are hundreds of acres of gardens, a winery, farm and even a pond that was in a scene in Last of the Mohicans. To really see the whole estate either you need a full weekend or a really good interactive map to make the tour. Take a look at the Biltmore Estate Interactive Map.
Read MoreIf you don’t have someone else do your taxes then there is a pretty good chance you’ll use TurboTax to do them. The maker of TurboTax, Intuit, who also makes the popular financial software Quicken, recently put out the map below so that we can see which cities like to procrastinate in doing their taxes. They announced this map on the TurboTax blog.
Read MoreAccording to the latest data there are over 1.7 billion individuals around the world have access to the internet. This is just over 25% of the entire population. And almost 75% of people in North America are online. When you think about those numbers it’s pretty amazing how the adoption of this medium has penetrated into our everyday lives. Although it’s hard to say exactly who created the internet we do know that Tim Berners-Lee first created what we know a s the World Wide Web (WWW) while working at CERN back in 1990. When most people think of the internet the World Wide Web is really what they think about, although it is so much more now.
Read MoreThe 2010 U.S. Census is just around the corner. Many of you will probably be getting inquires in the mail very soon if you haven’t already. I received a letter at the end of last week saying that it is coming within the next ten days. The Census comes around once a decade, and it’s a very big challenge to get a head count of everyone living in this country.
Read MoreI’ve been a New Orleans Saints fan my whole life. Also, on the way back from vacation last week we spent part of the day Saturday in Miami, where the Super Bowl was being held the very next day. Needless to say we saw hundreds of die hard football fans, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the Saints fans outnumbered the Colts fans of an estimated ratio of 15:1. Because of this apparent favoritism I was quite surprised to see 58% of SportsNation pulling for the Colts.
Read MoreThe New York Times creates some of the most interesting and unique interactive maps out there. This new map lets us peek into the Netflix queues of individuals in twelve metropolitan areas. From these cities you can drill down into zip codes to see what individuals in that area are renting.
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