A Google Map for the New Economy

The Global Transition to a New Economy is a Google Map designed to showcase projects around the world that are part of a new developing economy.

The 'new economy' is one that "maximizes well-being, operates within environmental limits and is capable of coping and adapting to global environmental change".  The map is crowd-sourced and invites contributions from organisations and projects that want to help build a framework to define this new economy.

The contributed projects are color-coded by category. The categories include 'citizens and communities, finance, currencies and local economies. 

The Eurozone Crisis on Google Maps

In Spain the unemployment rate is a staggering 25%. Geografia Operativa has created a Google Map to show the areas that have the lowest rates of unemployment. The map acts as a guide to where unemployed Spaniards are most likely to be able to find work.

The map shows that Andalusia is resisting the downturn, with an unemployment rate lower than in Norway, as are cities such as Bilbao, San Sebastián, Majadahonda, Alcala la Real, and Palma del Río.

Via: Blog Idee


In the UK the Guardian has created a Google Map of Repossessions in England and Wales. This map shows which local authorities in the two countries have the highest repossession rates of people's homes.


CNN has created (a fairly ugly but still useful)  map that allows users to view a number of different economic indicators for the Eurozone countries.

The map allows the user to explore Unemployment Rates, Youth Unemployment Rates, GDP, Growth and the Debt of each of the Eurozone countries.

England's Deprivation on Google Maps

The Guardian newspaper says that the Indices of Multiple Deprivation are "possibly the most significant research into poverty in England ever put together". The Indices, study poverty across a range of significant indicators to try and work out which places in England are the poorest.

The Open Data Blog has created a Google Maps based application, called the Indices of Deprivation Explorer, to enable users to browse the data by location.

The map lets you explore the 50 most deprived and the 50 least deprived areas in England. As well as displaying the overall Indices of Multiple Deprivation the application allows you to view individual indices of deprivation, such as crime, housing, health and income.

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Standard & Poor's Credit Ratings Map

Standard and Poor's downgrading of the USA's credit rating to AA has sent shock-waves around the world.



You can consult this Standard and Poor's Credit Rating Map to see the current credit ratings of countries around the world. The map was created with the Ikimaps Google Maps creation tool.



Standard & Poor's (S&P) is a United States-based financial services company. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds.



Hat-tip: geoblogger.eu



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Australian Social Diversity on Google Maps

Arek of the All Things Spatial blog has created a series of Google Maps to highlight social diversity in New South Wales, Australia.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics attempts to quantify socio-economic diversity for geographic locations with a suite of four summary measures called Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA). Arek has imported the Bureau's data for the four measures into Fusion Tables and created a map for each.

Each map provides a heat-map visualisation of one of the measure. In each map you can click on any of New South Wales' postal areas to view the area's rank and decile.

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UK Average Incomes on Google Maps

The UK's Office of National Statistics has used Google Maps to show the average household income estimates for different areas in England and Wales.

You can select the income measure you want to view on the map via a drop-down menu. By clicking on the map you can then view the average household income estimate at that location. You can also search the map by an address or a postcode.

The map seems to show that the nearer you live to London the more your average income is likely to be. There are a few pockets of high earning areas outside the capital but it would be interesting to compare the data on this map to a map of commuting times into London.

ONS - Income by Location

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California School Funding on Google Maps

California School District Funding

This Google Map shows school district funding in California. Using the map it is possible to view funding levels in each district and also view the school district's academic performance.

If you click on a school district you can view details of the funding over the last three years together with a projection of the funding next year assuming there is no tax extension in California.

The map also displays State Senate districts. If you click on a Senate district you can view the name and party affiliation of the district Senator and their winning margin.

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A Google Map of English Deprivation

England Deprivation Mapped

The most deprived area in England is Jaywick Sands in Essex, according to this deprivation map of the country.

The Guardian newspaper has taken the Indices of Multiple Deprivation published by the Department for Communities and Local Government to create this Google Map of deprivation in England. The Indices look at poverty across a number of indicators to try and work out which places in England are the poorest.

The Guardian has added the data to Google Fusion tables along with shapefiles for individual wards from the Office for National Statistics. The result is this Google Map that allows you to click on any location on the map and find out its 'Deprivation Score' and 'Deprivation Rank'.

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Government Cuts on Google Maps

'Deficit reduction' certainly seems to be the buzz word of the decade. In the UK the British government is cutting public spending as if there will be no tomorrow. Almost as fast as the cuts are being made a new Google Map appears to try and show the impact of the cuts around the country.

Cutsmap

Channel 4 News has created a crowd-sourced Google Map of spending cuts in the UK and have asked users to submit their own knowledge of cuts to the map.

The map markers are colour-coded by category and the categories can be filtered on the map via a drop-down menu. Anyone who knows of a spending cut not mapped can report it to Channel 4 and it will be plotted on the map.

Public Sector Cuts Mapped

The Guardian newspaper reports that "organisations across the country are closing and losing services as councils and public bodies implement swingeing cuts from April." To document the cuts The Guardian has built this Google Map.

The tabbed sidebar organises the cuts by category, for example, health cuts, education etc.

Where Are the Cuts

Where Are The Cuts? say there is no 'official' list of about what is being cut and where, so they made this Google Map to help inform the public what is being cut in their area.

The cuts on the map have been collected from official sources or entered directly by users of the map. It is also possible to browse all the cuts displayed on the map in list form.

Via: your2pence

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EEC Funding on a Google Map

Europa Om De Hoek

Europa Om De Hoek is a Google Map showing the location of European Union funded projects in the Netherlands.

The map displays three categories of marker, City & Surroundings, People & Society and Knowledge and Innovation. If you pan or zoom the map the markers are updated automatically to reflect your current view.

You can also select to view projects by subject, by the amount of money invested, by location and by EU agency.

Also See

Sandbag Emissions Map - explore how the emissions trading system is operating in the European Union.

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Google's Economic Impact Google Map

Google's Economic Impact

Google have released a report that details the company’s economic impact in all 50 U.S. states. But why read a report when you can get the bottom line just by clicking on a state on a Google Map?

Across the U.S. Google's search and advertising tools generated $54 billion of economic activity in 2009. Google's Economic Impact Google Map shows how the search giant has helped hundreds of businesses in every U.S. state.

If you click on a state on Google's Map you can view the total amount of economic activity and how many state businesses, website publishers and non-profits benefited. Each information window also includes a link to download that state's report.

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Where Americans Are Living Well

Forbes Map: Where Americans are Living Well

If you want a good household income then don't move to the middle of America. Forbes are using Google Maps to display a number of lifestyle factors across the USA, all of which suggest that there is an area down the middle of America from Montana and North Dakota in the north to Texas in the south that is under performing compared to other states.

The map displays a number of population, education and business related indicators to show where Americans are living well. To select a category, use the drop-down menu at the top of the map.

The data is shown in the form of a heat map with red indicating a higher score. The data for the map is provided by ZoomProspector.com.

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Compare Your Salary With Google Maps

MySalaryWiki

MySalaryWiki is a website where users can anonymously share salary information. The aim is to allow employees to check if they are paid fairly, and employers to ensure that they are paying a fair amount.

The website features a prominent Google Map on its homepage showing the location of people who have added their salary details to the site.

The map is effective in showing the locations around the world where you can view salary information. However the map markers only reveal the locations where information has been submitted. It would be nice if the actual salary information was displayed directly on the map as well.

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The World's Billionaires on Google Maps

Mapize Forbes Billionaires List Map

Mapize have released a Google Map showing the location of all those on the Forbes Magazine World Billionaires List.

This year the world has a new richest man and there are more billionaires on the list compared with last year (937 billionaires in total). You can sort the billionaires on the map by age or by country. It’s also possible to find personal data about each billionaire in the information windows (position on the list, net worth, nationality, country of residence).

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Bank Failures on Google Maps

Wall Street Journal Bank Failures Map

The Wall Street Journal have produced a very nice visualisation of bank failures in the USA in the last two years, using Google Maps.

The size of the circles on the map represent the value of the bank's assets at the time of failure. The circles are interactive and, if you click on them, load information about the bank into the map sidebar.

The map sidebar has a neat slider which you can use to view the bank's collapse over the last two years. The slider includes a 'play' button which will animate the failures over the two years. Under the map the data is presented in tabular form, with sortable column headers.

Via: @geoparadigm

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Google Maps of Canadian Stimulas Spending

Canadian Stimulus Package

This new Google Maps Mashup shows over 6,000 points where stimulus projects have been designated in Canada. The map also shows which ridings (electoral jurisdictions) have received more projects and more projects per-person.

Conservative ridings are coloured blue on the map and non-Conservative ridings are magenta. The dots on the map show the locations of the projects. For the number of projects layer, ridings with darker blues/magentas have more projects than ones in lighter blues/magentas.

The map also comes with tools to adjust the settings. It is possible to adjust the transparency of the ridings layer and to change the colours. It is also possible to filter the results to show only those projects awarded over $5 million.

Also See

• NSW Government Stimulus Snapshot Map
• Canada's Economic Action Plan Map
• USDA ARRA Projects Map - American Recovery Act Google Map
• Nation Building - map of the Australian Stimulus Plan

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Canadian Economic Recovery Google Map

Canada's Economic Action Plan

The GoogleMapsDev team have used the Google Maps for Flash API to map over 7,000 projects funded by the Canadian Government as part of its $61 billion dollar economic stimulus package.

The map has filters, positioned at its right edge, that let you control which projects appear on the map. You can also click "Go Full Screen" to make the map bigger, or "Export CSV" to export the markers in view to an Excel spreadsheet.

The versatility of the Flash platform allows large sets of markers to be grouped into "clusters" and sized and coloured to reflect the number of markers contained within. Together the filters and the cluster-based visualization provide a simple analytic tool that let you explore "what-if" scenarios.

The Canadian Government also constructed a JavaScript-based Google Map of the projects, which we reviewed on Google Maps Mania a few months back. One issue with this map is that it's JavaScript based, which takes considerably longer (on IE6 and IE7, in particular) to process and display the 7,000 markers.

Also, each fixed-sized marker cluster provides no visual clue as to how many markers it represents. For example, it is much easier to see on the GoogleMapsDev map than on the government map, that almost half of the projects have been allocated to Southern Ontario, a small region (geographically speaking) relative to the size of the country.

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The Australian Stimulus Plan Google Map

Nation Building

The Australian Government have created a Google Maps mashup to show where the country's tax dollars are being spent as part of the federal government's stimulus plan. To ensure that the program is delivered with full transparency the Australian Government has created an entire website, Nation Building - Economic Stimulus Plan, which is dedicated to news, stories and progress reports so citizens can monitor how their money is being spent. The Google Map plays a large part in showing where and how the money is being spent.

Information is available on the map for six different expenditure categories: education, community infrastructure, road and rail, housing, insulation and solar. It is possible to search the Google Map by postcode or address. The map will then show you the ESP projects under way within a 10 kilometre radius from the address you enter, and will automatically default to the closest available location.

Via: All Things Spatial

Also See

• NSW Government Stimulus Snapshot Map
• Canada's Economic Action Plan Map
• USDA ARRA Projects Map - American Recovery Act Google Map

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Currency Convertor Tool on Google Maps

Currate.com

Do you need to know how much your dollar is worth in Japan or how much your pound has fallen against the dollar? If so then Currate.com's Google Maps based currency conversion tool can help.

To use the tool you just need to drag one marker on the Google Map to indicate the country whose currency you wish to convert. Next, drag a marker onto the country whose currency you wish to convert to. Finally, enter the amount of currency you wish to convert and Currate.com will calculate your currency's worth based on the rates of various international banks.

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Google Map of Recovery Act Money

Recipients of Recovery Act Money Map

Who in your state is a major recipient of "Recovery Act" money? The answer is in this Google Maps Mashup that shows who has received recovery money in each state in the US.

Each state has its own Google Map. To view a different state just replace the two letter state code at the end of the url. For example, here is the url for Michigan,

http://www.mibazaar.com/usarecovery.php?state=mi

So if you wanted to view New York state instead you just replace the 'mi' at the end with 'ny'. You can also embed the map in your website by cutting and pasting a short piece of code.

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