CartoDB has traced every Rolling Stones tour since 1963. Each is given its own page, with individual stops connected on a map.
You can mouse over the stops to see the name of the location and the date they played there. Brief information about the tour is also included. For example, the 1967 European tour was the last to include Brian Jones, who initially formed and named the band.
The Rolling Stones have performed more than 1,300 concerts all over the world and traveled more than 621,000 miles in the last 50 years. CartoDB scraped the band’s tour data from Wikipedia and imported it into CartoDB 2.0. The company then mixed in Reveal.js with its new Javascript library CartoDB.js to create the visualization.
"By connecting where each tour took place we not only got to see how the Stones grew in prominence globally," the company says. "But also the distance travelled for each tour, and correlations between tours and promoting a new album."