The advert targets America’s Latino population, which consists of nearly 47 million people and comprises the country’s second largest (and fastest growing) ethnic group. It would be nice to see a similarly creative advert for the forthcoming UK Census, perhaps developed by squintopera or such like…

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The advert targets America’s Latino population, which consists of nearly 47 million people and comprises the country’s second largest (and fastest growing) ethnic group. It would be nice to see a similarly creative advert for the forthcoming UK Census, perhaps developed by squintopera or such like…

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The system was developed as a quick and easy way to view maps of census data without having to go through a slow cumbersome list of drop down boxes only to be left with a .shp or .csv file to download. Future versions will include direct links to the raw data and the possibility to directly query the fields.

Of note in the development cycle of MapTube, each map is now created dynamically, this is in preparation for a new ‘mapping service’ which will be open to beta testers in early 2010.

You can take a look at the maps via http://www.maptube.org/census/

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The system was developed as a quick and easy way to view maps of census data without having to go through a slow cumbersome list of drop down boxes only to be left with a .shp or .csv file to download. Future versions will include direct links to the raw data and the possibility to directly query the fields.

Of note in the development cycle of MapTube, each map is now created dynamically, this is in preparation for a new ‘mapping service’ which will be open to beta testers in early 2010.

You can take a look at the maps via http://www.maptube.org/census/

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Our first of many outputs is to visualize the UK Census data via MapTube and we thought we would share some of our first results as they make for quite intriguing images – such as the screen grab below detailing Population Density of the Isle of Wight:

The work is ongoing with the ability to ‘click’ on areas and view the underlying data as well as data streaming and varying levels of detail all forthcoming. Countywide, zoomable down to local level Cenus data is hard to come across, for a quick view is provides quite a good way to identify pattens in the urban landscape. Below is Central London:

Our back end system under development means that the output is not limited to the UK Census, it would be interesting to make this a global tool, more on this in future posts…

You can see our sample map of Population Density direct via MapTube.

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Our first of many outputs is to visualize the UK Census data via MapTube and we thought we would share some of our first results as they make for quite intriguing images – such as the screen grab below detailing Population Density of the Isle of Wight:

The work is ongoing with the ability to ‘click’ on areas and view the underlying data as well as data streaming and varying levels of detail all forthcoming. Countywide, zoomable down to local level Cenus data is hard to come across, for a quick view is provides quite a good way to identify pattens in the urban landscape. Below is Central London:

Our back end system under development means that the output is not limited to the UK Census, it would be interesting to make this a global tool, more on this in future posts…

You can see our sample map of Population Density direct via MapTube.

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As such the US Census Bureau will be ditching its PDAs in favor of paper and pencil for the 2010 census. To be honest this makes sense on a number of levels.

Sure it goes against our natural urge to geo-tag, document and process data on site via an edge connection, preferably while streaming video, but sometimes its easier to go old school.

We are just looking at our gps pda enabled mapping system for a campus route finder and thinking it might be better to use paper, a pencil and a compass – this could catch on.

Picked up via Engadget..

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