Mapipedia is a web page for visualizing time-series geospatial data. On the platform, you'll find a set of data for a specific geographic region, uploaded by community users. The data includes an animated heat map that helps you understand and analyze statistics on population, famine, disease, the Spanish flu, the Rwandan genocide, and more.
The platform also allows you to submit your own datasets to share with the community. The website only accepts datasets about a particular geographic area or the whole world.
Mapipedia is an environment that is taking its first steps, so you won't find a large community. The tool has free and commercial options. In the free option, the platform allows you to create five private pages and unlimited public pages. From its interface, you can visualize heat map animations or download them in CSV format.
The first thing you need to do is search for a dataset using the search bar. You'll see many details and also the animated heat map. With that information, you can analyze and study the dataset.
Create and share your own data
To create and share your data, you'll need to go to the "Assign your own data" section and then follow the steps indicated by the tool. You can upload data from your computer and, in this way, create a page on the desired topic. You can customize the settings by allowing or denying comments, inserting headers, and so on.
Without a doubt, Mapipedia is a very good web page for scientists and data researchers who need information. Although the existence of data in Spanish is almost nil, you can use the browser translator to translate the text. Searches will have to be done in English.
