The_real_color_of_belgium is more of a hack than a project. Recently, I started to explore the possibilities of interactivity between Google Earth and GPS or virtual mapping...
In
October 2006 was held the municipal election in Belgium so
I managed to transfer the results from the ministry of interior
and found the longitude and latitude of major belgian cities.
On the day of the election, the newspaper “La
Libre Belgique” made an excellent web to visualize those
data and linked a color to the different parties... Blue is
for the liberal parties (MR or VLD), orange for the centrist
“catholic” parties (CDH or CD&V), red is for the socialist
parties (PS and SP.a), brown is for the extreme right wing (Vlaams
Belang)... and grey is for a coalition of parties.
This
is not a political work, so comes the most interesting part,
the colors... And the result is mostly grey (Belgium
is pretty well known for its consensus) then orange in the
north versus red in the south ! These are the real colors of
Belgium.
GPS visualizer : http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map?form=googleearth
Google Earth : http://earth.google.com/
La Libre Belgique (Election 2006) : http://www.lalibre.be/elections2006/
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Visualize Belgium in your Google Earth : real_color_of_belgium.kmz
