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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Charles Arthur

US Census in Google Earth: impressive, detailed, scary, and beats the UK into a cocked hat

As part of the Free Our Data campaign that we're running in Guardian Technology, we're always interested in applications of government data to create new views of something that was already there, but not made visible.

The latest is an implementation that mashes Google Earth with the US Census Bureau's latest data. The Google Census project involved writing a fair amount of code (because the form in which the US Census data came wasn't that helpful, and the Bureau's own site wasn't the best - imagine!) but you can now have a go yourself.

Anyone seen anything comparable with the UK census data? We'd have thought the Office for National Statistics might have something, but can't find anything comparable.

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