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.
