A Map of Bigfoot Sightings

Recently, I’ve been playing with Tableau Public, a free web service for mapping data. They have a great gallery of visualizations including this one of Bigfoot sightings over the last 50 years or so.

Maple Trees in Vancouver

This is a map I made of all the city-maintained maple trees in Vancouver’s West End. I used batchgeo.com, a great web service for mapping data to Google Maps.

View Maple Trees in West End Vancouver in a full screen map.

The data needed minor clean-up. I filtered all maples, eliminated some records that weren’t actually in the West End, and did a concatenation to get full street addresses.

I’m enjoying clicking around to find and identify some of the maples near my apartment by zooming in, selecting satellite view, and then street view.

So this fall, I’ll know what the tree I’m admiring actually is. I’m looking forward to seeing them change colour.

Data source: City of Vancouver Open Data