Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Eclipse Map Follow Up

Before Monday's eclipse I posted some excellent maps and visualizations of it. Here are a few I missed and some post-eclipse maps.

The Washington Post made a great graphic showing the most liked images tagged #eclipse2017 on Instagram.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/health-science/eclipse-2017-instagram/?%3Ftid%3D=sm_pg&utm_term=.5d816ca789ba

Hover over each image for more detail
Even filtering for the eclipse tag, not every image is eclipse-related.
The Post also posted this widely-circulated map showing how Google search results for the eclipse followed the path. I like the color choices!
https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2017/08/eclipse.png
From the same article, an understated graphic showing what the eclipse looked like throughout the United States.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-01-at-10.26.41-AM.png
The Canadian Space Agency has a similar map showing what the peak eclipse looked like over their major cities. Though there was not a total eclipse anywhere in Canada, the map does give an easily understandable view of what will be visible. The green-blue gradient is a little gratuitous but I like this map a lot.
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/images/recherche/tiles/64bd3e42-f01a-4071-b404-35202a1cc0aa.jpg
This gif, an animated satellite view popped up somewhere is the social media world-I forgot where I found it. Click the image for a larger view and some animation options.
https://gfycat.com/confusedpopulardutchsmoushond
Finally I made my own screen shot that got popular (by my standards) on Twitter showing the path of the eclipse via Google Traffic.
https://twitter.com/MapOfTheWeek/status/899729626137755648
Before the eclipse the only thing that stood out was a huge amount of traffic converging on South Carolina from the Atlanta and Charlotte areas. Otherwise there wasn't much else to see. When I looked shortly after the peak of the eclipse the pattern became pretty clear.

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