SHOW®USA Launches: New Website Showcases Animated Maps of U.S. Facts and Figures

A new website that displays a abundance of advice about the fifty states--from Spanish speakers to strawberries produced to Bigfoot sightings--with activated maps reveals a few surprises.

Washington, DC -- SHOW®USA, a website with a mapping appliance that displays a advanced array of advice about the fifty states in a accomplished new way, launched today.
A sample map from SHOW USA: Renewable Energy Production
From Spanish speakers to bales of affection produced to amount of UFO sightings, SHOW®USA (show.mappingworlds.com) displays anniversary state's numbers in animated, easy-to-understand maps that resize the accompaniment to the abstracts rather than bounded area. The after-effects are cartograms that accompany the numbers to life--and acknowledge a few surprises.

"Look at our Tornado Deaths map, for instance," says the site's creator, Desmond Spruijt. "The a lot of humans dead endure year by tornadoes were in Florida. It makes you admiration why it wasn't in the Midwest, area our Tornadoes map shows the a lot of storms. It turns out states like Oklahoma accept bigger admonishing systems and added storm shelters, not to acknowledgment beneath people. The beheld presentation makes you anticipate about the data, to accept it better."

Look at our Tornado Deaths map, for instance The a lot of humans dead endure year by tornadoes were in Florida. It makes you admiration why it wasn't in the Midwest, area our Tornadoes map shows the a lot of storms. It turns out states like Oklahoma accept bigger admonishing systems and added storm shelters, not to acknowledgment beneath people. The beheld presentation makes you anticipate about the data, to accept it better. To us, maps are added than pictures, they are advice and apprenticeship tools We ambition humans to use the SHOW®USA maps in accelerate shows or analysis papers, in the classroom--wherever our maps can accomplish simple numbers appear alive--and aswell to alpha conversations about them on our site. SHOW®USA and SHOW®WORLD aswell appearance off the affectionate of avant-garde maps we actualize for our audience at MappingWorlds. Spruijt is architect of MappingWorlds, a aggregation that helps government, non-profit, and business audience common actualize avant-garde maps and cartograms. SHOW®USA is the sister website of SHOW®WORLD, which presents maps with abstracts on the countries of the apple in the aforementioned way.

SHOW®USA and SHOW®WORLD are chargeless for accessible use, with no allotment or claimed advice collected. Users can download the numbers abaft the maps, which appear from dozens of sources like the U.S. Census Bureau, abduction and use an angel of a map with animation, hyperlink to any map, and column comments about anniversary one--all at no charge.

"To us, maps are added than pictures, they are advice and apprenticeship tools," says Spruijt. "We ambition humans to use the SHOW®USA maps in accelerate shows or analysis papers, in the classroom--wherever our maps can accomplish simple numbers appear alive--and aswell to alpha conversations about them on our site. SHOW®USA and SHOW®WORLD aswell appearance off the affectionate of avant-garde maps we actualize for our audience at MappingWorlds."

Spruijt founded MappingWorlds in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2004. The company's audience cover the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.

The maps accessible on SHOW®USA blow on about every aspect of the acreage and humans of America. Some of the accepted maps include: Hispanics, rural population, humans with disabilities, bashed active deaths, U.S. aggressive deaths in Iraq, humans after bloom insurance, birthmark production, accustomed gas reserves, casinos, federal acreage abutment received, balloter academy votes, aliment brand recipients, gay marriages, murders, abhorrence crimes, immigrants, accommodating contributions, foreclosures, roller coasters, amount of presidents complete in anniversary state, and Bigfoot sightings. With 141 maps so far, the website is still abacus abstracts and affairs to accept several hundred maps on display.

Myanmar's Cyclone-Damaged Rice Production Regions Monitored with GIS

Subsequent to Cyclone Nargis, a chic 3 close storm that addled the below and heavily busy bank of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began bearing a alternation of geographic advice arrangement (GIS)-based maps of the damaged agronomical areas to accompany its article intelligence reports. Our GIS maps and flood allocation abstracts appearance that the areas originally inundated by the storm anniversary for about 1.7 actor hectares of rice, 24 percent of the civic rice area, or almost 2.5 actor bags of rice assembly on a formed basis

Redlands, CA -- Subsequent to Cyclone Nargis, a chic 3 close storm that addled the below and heavily busy bank of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began bearing a alternation of geographic advice arrangement (GIS)-based maps of the damaged agronomical areas to accompany its article intelligence reports. Published on the FAS Web site, these maps are created application geospatial abstracts and the technology begin in ESRI's ArcGIS Desktop software.    

The Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) uses geographic advice arrangement (GIS)-based maps of Myanmar’s rice bearing regions to advice appraisal and adviser the accident larboard abaft by Cyclone Nargis.

The mission of FAS is to advance adopted bazaar acceptance to U.S. agronomical products, body new markets, advance the aggressive position of U.S. agronomics in the all-around marketplace, and accommodate aliment aid and abstruse abetment to adopted countries. FAS achieves a allotment of this mission by allegory all-around crop assembly accommodation with remote-sensing and GIS accoutrement and by arising article intelligence letters highlighting accepted all-embracing crop conditions. GIS-based maps, accessible in PDF format, accommodate a decision of the appraisal performed and generally serve as anniversary report's basis. The article intelligence letters issued for the country aforetime accepted as Burma focus on Myanmar's above rice-producing areas, which accept suffered abyssal calamity and abundant condensate as a aftereffect of the cyclone.
The activity included digital adumbration acquired from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) digital to abut the postcyclone calamity region.

This adumbration was accumulated with rice land-cover allocation abstracts from the Landsat digital program. FAS acclimated ArcGIS to accomplish spatial appraisal and actualize maps of the damaged rice assembly regions of Myanmar. These maps appear the cyclone's aftereffect on acreage and livestock, the severity of flooding, and the amount of acreage recovery. The United Nations and nongovernmental organizations (NGO) are application the maps to appraise the ambit of the cyclone's impact. The advice is aswell been of abundant absorption to the all-embracing agronomics industry for chargeless bazaar impacts.

"Our GIS maps and flood allocation abstracts appearance that the areas originally inundated by the storm anniversary for about 1.7 actor hectares of rice, 24 percent of the civic rice area, or almost 2.5 actor bags of rice assembly on a formed basis," says FAS all-embracing crop appraisal analyst Michael Shean. "The amount arena a lot of acutely damaged by the flat beachcomber and top winds, however, accounted for about 900,000 hectares of rice land, 13 percent of the civic rice area, and almost 1.35 actor bags of formed rice production. In addition, acreage letters from central the afflicted arena announce that aural these rice assembly areas, ample numbers of villages were destroyed alternating with abundant of their aliment stocks, livestock, and agriculture supplies."

A article intelligence address and maps issued June 10, 2008, authenticate that about 80 percent of the aboriginal inundated rice assembly across is still afflicted by some amount of flooding, admitting altitude in the amount accident area had bigger considerably, with alone 418,000 hectares, or 46 percent of the aboriginal area, still assuming flood effects. FAS will abide to aftermath letters and maps and accomplish appraisal of Myanmar's rice assembly regions as new abstracts becomes available.

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