Explore your world with maps
We know many of you are map-lovers, so we’ve collected a selection of online maps to provoke thought and spark exploration. We’ll regularly feature a recent map of particular interest. We have included a set of maps featuring the Charlotte region, from the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute’s three websites. Below those are links to intriguing maps we found online.
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Follow the Cross Charlotte Trail across this map
This interactive map takes you on a virtual visit along the proposed Cross Charlotte Trail, with photos, updates on construction, little-known facts and information on plans for the future.
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Where to shop or donate: Goodwill locations
Goodwill puts people to work through its chain of retail stores. Whether you want to shop at a Goodwill store or donate items through a donation center or drop-off point, this new interactive map will help you find where to go. (Graphic: UNC Charlotte Urban Institute) -
Population changes in the Carolinas 2010-2012
Updated census data shows a continued pattern of growth focused on the center of urban areas, reversing the trend of stronger suburban growth seen in the last decade. -
Charlotte population growth: A clearer picture
The Charlotte metro was definitely a hotbed of growth for the state during the past decade. But the pattern within the metro region is uneven, with much of the strongest population increases concentrated in areas north and south of Charlotte. -
How Charlotte area school districts scored on the SAT
These maps show a breakdown of the SAT scores for school districts in the Charlotte region.
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Where There Are More Single Men Than Women
There is an interesting spatial distribution of single men and women across the United States. What makes this even more interesting is the difference when age groups are calculated. In almost every major metro area in the country, between the ages of 18 and 34, single men outnumber single women. However, in the age group of 45 to 64, single women tend to outnumber single men in most of the country's cities. -
America's quietest places
Looking for a quiet place? This map from the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the noise levels across the country on an average summer day. -
The most common job in every state 1978-2014
What jobs are most common in each state? How does that compare with 1978? And what happened to all the secretaries?
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Trains, buses and people: More lessons for Charlotte
In his recent book, Trains, Buses, People – An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit, Christof Spieler dispenses a refreshly forthright assessment of 47 of America’s larger systems, including Miami, Atlanta, Austin, Houston, Dallas and other Sun Belt cities. Never before has a publication compared this many cities and transit modes for a mainstream audience. Research included photographs at all locations and interviews with agency staff, elected officials, and advocates. The final product is compressed into a digestible format of full-page maps, abundant infographics and the author’s informed commentary. Spieler’s opinions derive from several complex factors: political dynamics, funding challenges, planning dilemmas, land use constraints, ridership fluctuations, and conceptual biases all come into play. He reveals a few winners, but also a lot of losers. Charlotte hovers precariously in between. -
Charlotte just wrapped up its busiest decade ever for uptown development
The 2010s in uptown Charlotte were a decade with a split personality, starting with an epic crash and swinging to a huge boom that transformed the skyline and left an enormous mark on the city. At the start of the decade, rusting rebar poked up from the EpiCentre, a reminder of a condo project that never got started. Now, those buildings are full and cranes dot the skyline, picking their way around new towers. -
What will Charlotte look like? This new tool makes it easier to visualize
The skyline changes every year in a fast-growing city like Charlotte, as parking lots morph into high-rises and humble houses or older building are demolished to make way for the next big thing. It can be tough to keep track of the changes, and even harder to visualize what a proposed development might look like once it’s actually built. A new tool the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department is planning to adopt soon could make that easier. -
What Charlotte needs to grow into a great city
In more than three decades since she moved to the city, UNC Charlotte professor Deb Ryan has seen a lot of changes. At Charlotte City Council's annual retreat in January, Ryan said she thinks it’s time for the city to raise its expectations of developers. “We’re not the needy little city we used to be,” Ryan said.
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