ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Emirati Police Support Team initiated its mission to assist French Police in securing the Paris 2024 Olympics, launched on Friday by French President Emmanuel Macron. The UAE participation in securing the Olympic Games, dubbed as “the biggest sporting event ever”, underscores its commitment to international cooperation and support for […]
what3words Addresses Rio’s Summer of Sport
London, August 03, 2016 – Brazil will be teeming with tourists this summer, with an extra half-a-million visitors expected in Rio de Janeiro during August alone. But despite the new venues, and the city’s notoriously poor addressing system, athletes, tourists and logistics workers don’t have to get lost.
Mapping the Olympics – Olympic Medal Cartogram
Here’s another clever visualization (although I have to say that the color selection used here is pretty poor), this time from Esri using the fun cartographic display method known as a cartogram – FYI, A Gastner-Newman cartogram preserves the general appearance and adjacency of countries while modifying the shape so that the area is proportional […]
Mapping the Olympic Medals – An Esri Story Map
Loads of companies and online publications are mapping the Olympic metal count, including most of the large online news outlets and now Esri via their popular story map resource (http://mapstories.esri.com). The latest Esri story map is called Mapping the Metals and provides a simple to use map UI (think ArcGIS Online) to share real time […]