Electric Use Map for Personal Kyoto
Tuesday, April 17 2007 - 0 Comments
The map above shows the average monthly electric use of Personal Kyoto users. A frequently updated map is also available at the Personal Kyoto site.
Getting the average use data out of PK and getting the data into Google Maps was pretty simple. What turned out to be challenging was working with the US Government's zip code boundary lat/lon data which is in a completely weird format. It's just a lot less user friendly than it could (should?) be. One could imagine that public data (which this zip code boundary information is) could be a lot more accessible. This seems to be a trend I've observed with most of the public data I've worked with now.
Posted by Ben at April 17, 2007 09:35 AM