Weedmap Denver

For a few years instantly Weedmap has been mapping dispensaries selling medical marijuana inwards the United States. Now that Colorado has legalized the recreational piece of occupation as well as the sale of cannabis Weedmap has updated their map of Colorado to too exhibit non-medical retail outlets, where cannabis tin hold out legally purchased.

If you lot zoom inwards on Denver on WeedMap you lot volition instantly encounter novel 'A-Okay' map markers that exhibit the locations of responsible marijuana retail stores inwards the city. 'Users' tin conduct whatever of the stores displayed on the map to sentiment the store's amount address as well as the WeedMap rating for the store.

Mapping Icelandic Earthquakes

I similar this map of Icelandic Earthquakes. The map itself isn't genuinely rendered real good exactly it is an interesting visualization of earthquakes inward Republic of Iceland since 1995.

Icelandic Earthquakes uses d3.js alongside the Leaflet mapping library. The map is from the National Land Survey of Iceland, which provides swell topographical information. However Icelandic Earthquakes does highlight i of the problems of using map tiles generated from newspaper maps, inward that the map loses resolution when zoomed out.

Where the map is genuinely practiced inward is inward the reach the user has inward visualizing the earthquake data. It is possible to refine the earthquake information shown on the map past times date, past times magnitude in addition to past times depth. It is too possible to refine the agency the earthquake polygons are presented on the map past times size, opacity in addition to past times the set out of polygons displayed.

The History Of The London Metro Inwards I Minute

The world's outset clandestine railway opened inwards Jan 1863. The outset gas-lit wooden carriages hauled yesteryear steam locomotives ran betwixt Paddington in addition to Farringdon inwards London. Although the journeying was muddied in addition to unpleasant the cutting inwards journeying times proved hugely pop in addition to presently novel stations in addition to lines began to live on added to the London Underground. The London Underground straight off serves 270 stations in addition to has 250 miles of track.

You tin thought an animation of the increase of the London Underground over the final 151 years on this CarrtoDB map. London's Rail System inwards sixty seconds is an animated map which shows when all of London's rail in addition to clandestine stations were outset opened.

The map's creator has too published a real practiced tutorial on how to create your ain animated map using CartoDB's Torque library. How to Make an Animated Map amongst CartoDB in addition to Torque takes you lot through the steps of creating an animated map, from how to format your information to uploading the information & animating it amongst CartoDB in addition to Torque.

3D Driving Routes

This Bing WebGL Demo is really clever. The bear witness uses Bing Map tiles, pinnacle information too BabylonJS to exercise an animated 3d drive-through of whatever route.

Enter a starting indicate too a goal into the bear witness too you lot tin sentiment a drive-through of the calculated road inwards 3d. You tin speed-up or slow-down the charge per unit of measurement of the animation too you lot tin drag the map only about to alter the administration of your view.

The bear witness includes a card of a few pre-configured routes or you lot tin larn inwards your ain locations to generate a route. If you lot desire to sentiment your ain road thus I propose you lot larn inwards somewhere alongside hilly terrain to overstep the sum 3d consequence of the pinnacle data.

New Information Layer For The Google Maps Api

The Google Maps API forthwith has a novel Data Layer which makes it rattling slowly to add together GeoJSON to your Google Map creations.

Using the novel Data Layer alongside only 1 describe of piece of occupation of code yous tin give notice add together a GeoJSON file to your map. The specific describe of piece of occupation of code looks similar this:

map.data.loadGeoJSON(‘filename.json’);

With that 1 describe of piece of occupation of code yous tin give notice charge information onto your Google Map. You tin give notice therefore role the new

Data.setStyle()

characteristic to manner how the information looks on the map. The manner characteristic allows yous to role custom markers, fill upward colors as well as opacity levels for polygons, as well as describe of piece of occupation color as well as describe of piece of occupation weighting alongside polylines.

The novel Data Layer besides allows yous to add together information termination handlers to your data. The termination handlers include mouse-over as well as mouse click events.

You tin give notice larn to a greater extent than well-nigh the novel Data Layer inwards the Google Maps Javascript Documentation, alongside exhibit maps for each of the novel features.

Just Iii Words

The globe is divided into 57 trillion 3 ten 3 meter squares. Each of those squares tin live on uniquely identified amongst only 3 words. If yous know the right 3 words yous tin at in i trial carry yourself to whatsoever location inwards the world.

Welcome to the globe of What3Words.

Launched final year what3words is a service that divides the globe into 3 ten 3m squares too gives each foursquare a unique address of only 3 words. Three words tin live on easily remembered hence what3words provides a slap-up service to easily portion locations amongst your friends.

Imagine, for example, that yous wishing to run across your friends at a specific location inwards the park. It could live on a location that doesn't accept an exact address, such every bit beneath a detail tree. With what3words yous only postulate to say your friends to run across yous at 'grow longer bottle' too they tin easily uncovering the exact location using the what3words desktop, Android or iOS app.

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For a pocket-sized cost users tin likewise purchase i give-and-take links. Today what3words has released native iOS too Android apps. The apps enable what3words users to purchase too motility their OneWords whilst on the go, hence sharing a electrical flow location is at nowadays easier than ever.

If yous purchase a i give-and-take link yous tin associate it amongst a describe concern - hence yous tin portion the location of your describe concern amongst customers amongst only i word. Alternatively yous tin associate a OneWords link amongst yourself. Using the what3words mobile app yous tin too hence update your location whenever yous desire too everyone who yous accept shared your i give-and-take link amongst tin at in i trial uncovering you.

The what3words application is likewise incredibly useful when travelling abroad. If you've ever flora yourself struggling to follow addresses too directions inwards a unusual script yous volition appreciate how tardily it would live on to only live on able to associate 3 English linguistic communication words amongst a location too live on able to ever at in i trial uncovering it on a map.

For example, inwards Moscow instead of searching for Красная площадь on your Google Map yous tin only function into brave.school.discount into the what3words app too at in i trial uncovering your agency to Red Square.

Neon Maps

M+, Hong Kong’s museum for visual culture, has released an interactive online exhibition celebrating Hong Kong’s neon signs. Neon Signs explores, maps as well as documents the city's wonderful neon signs.

The populace tin upload images of their ain favorite neon signs from throughout Hong Kong as well as they volition appear on the Neon Signs Google Map. The map itself uses the Styled Map characteristic as well as custom map markers to exercise a unique looking map. The markers purpose horizontal neon colored lines that stand-out on a dark as well as grayness themed map.

The dark as well as grayness map tiles besides ensure that the colorful photos of the city's neon signs appear brilliant against the nighttime map background.