Mapumental - The transcendent web for map data

Mapumental is an online application from England for job and house hunters. Give it an area/zip code and it will draw a map with an overlay of data for house prices, commute time and ’scenicness’ (generated by the web game ScenicOrNot)

It takes various data points to help Londoners understand where they can live if they want to commute to work in a certain time. The maps produced can be altered depending on house prices and also with how beautiful people think the area is.

A lot of data visualization exercises on the web are pretty but not particularly useful. This mashup represents the transcendent web at it’s best - a way of seeing the world that could not have existed even five years ago.

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