High-performance web visualizers for open demographic, education, municipal governance, and astronomical spatial alignment data. Instant vector streaming directly in your web browser powered by MapLibre GL JS and PMTiles.
Explore multi-dimensional deprivation across England with decile choropleth shading for all 33,755 Lower-layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs). Search postcodes, view national rankings, and analyze income, employment, education, health, crime, and housing deprivation metrics.
Open IoD 2025 Visualizer →Interactive spatial explorer for English primary, secondary, and special schools. Filter by inspection grade (Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement, Inadequate), inspect estimated catchment boundaries, and jump directly to official Ofsted reports.
Open Schools Explorer →Comprehensive financial resilience and governance explorer for English local authorities. Analyze insolvency risk scores (MIRS), usable reserves ratios, debt-to-revenue gearing, statutory spending pressures, and Section 114 notices across local government.
Open CouncilWatch Explorer →High-precision astronomical alignment and shot planning engine. Calculate the exact frame, camera position, and minute when the Moon, Sun, or planets align behind iconic landmarks with live OpenSky aircraft transit tracking.
Open FindFrame →Public sector bodies and national statistics departments generate vast volumes of crucial information regarding local economies, educational attainment, social deprivation, and council solvency. Historically, these data assets remained siloed inside multi-megabyte CSV downloads or enterprise desktop software. Makecade Map Portal re-engineers this data into modern, responsive visualizers rendered seamlessly across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
The English Indices of Deprivation are produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). England is partitioned into 33,755 Lower-layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) with an average population of 1,500. The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) synthesizes 39 distinct indicators across seven domains:
Our visualizer categorizes all 33,755 areas into ten national deciles. Decile 1 corresponds to the most deprived 10% of areas nationally (rendered in deep navy blue), while Decile 10 corresponds to the least deprived 10% (rendered in crimson red).
Evaluating primary and secondary school accessibility requires cross-referencing establishment data published by the Department for Education (DfE) with inspection ratings issued by Ofsted. Our platform models spatial distance catchment buffers based on historical admission criteria and census boundary density.
Each establishment is coded according to its most recent inspection judgment: Outstanding (Grade 1), Good (Grade 2), Requires Improvement (Grade 3), or Inadequate (Grade 4). Users can search any English postcode to immediately pinpoint local schools, check phased levels (nursery, primary, secondary, 16-plus), and link directly to full statutory inspection reports.
English local authorities face severe structural budgetary strains driven by escalating statutory commitments in Adult Social Care, Children's Services, and temporary accommodation for homeless households. Following high-profile Section 114 notices issued across multiple councils, CouncilWatch provides an independent spatial monitoring portal.
The Municipal Insolvency Risk Score (MIRS) evaluates unallocated reserves against Net Revenue Expenditure (NRE), external debt gearing, and statutory spending concentration. Authorities are classified across four risk tiers: Stable (MIRS < 40), Vulnerable (MIRS 40–59), Severe Risk (MIRS 60–79), and Critical Distress (MIRS 80+).
Capturing striking alignment photography — such as a supermoon rising precisely behind an iconic monument or a sun alignment through an architectural aperture — demands complex geodetic and celestial computation. FindFrame brings together NASA JPL DE421 ephemeris calculations with sub-arcminute celestial precision, 3D building horizons, and real-world digital elevation models.
By combining reverse raycasting with live OpenSky ADS-B flight feeds, photographers and cinematographers can identify the exact camera coordinates, required focal lengths, and capture timestamps down to the second, including predicting aircraft transits across lunar and solar discs.
Traditional web mapping workflows rely on server clusters running raster tile renderers that generate image tiles on demand. This architecture suffers from slow cold-starts, high cloud server costs, and poor responsiveness under peak traffic.
Makecade adopts the modern PMTiles v3 open format. Entire national spatial vector layers are stored as single self-contained archives on cloud object storage. Using HTTP Range Requests, web clients selectively download only the tile bytes needed for their current viewport. MapLibre GL JS renders these geometries on the client GPU via WebGL shaders, achieving fluid 60 FPS panning, instantaneous polygon filtering, and dynamic styling without server load.
All datasets are published in accordance with the Open Government Licence v3.0 and incorporate Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright 2026.