The Warming States Of America

U.S. Daily Temperature Anomalies 1964-2013 charts 50 years of temperature anomalies inwards the United States. The timeline in addition to map plots temperature anomalies from 2,716 conditions stations inwards the US, which accept information going dorsum l years.

Each station's daily temperature recordings accept been compared to its corresponding monthly distribution. If the temperature at the station roughshod inwards the bottom or pinnacle 2% on a given twenty-four hr menses it is labelled an anomaly.

The map animates through the l years of temperature anomalies at all 2,716 conditions stations. Warm anomalies are demo on the map inwards cerise in addition to mutual depression temperature anomalies are displayed amongst bluish dots. Beneath the map a graph plots the yearly proportion of warm anomalies to mutual depression temperature anomalies. The graph shows a clear tendency towards always increasing warm anomalies inwards the United States.

The Magnificent Maps Of The Week

Type whatever discussion inwards whatever linguistic communication into Wordmap together with yous tin heed to it beingness translated into every other linguistic communication inwards the world.

After yous type a discussion into Wordmap a Google Map is piece of cake populated alongside all of the word's translations. As the translated discussion is added to each province on the map yous tin also withdraw heed the translated discussion beingness pronounced inwards each language.

After the map has finished adding all the translated words, lines are added to the map to connect all the countries alongside a mutual language. You tin also click on each discussion on the map to acquire a piffling to a greater extent than close the country's linguistic communication from the language's Wikipedia entry.


I've ever actually liked the oblique Bird's Eye sentiment available on Bing Maps. Thanks to Glasgow Aerial Photos yous tin instantly sentiment historical bird's midpoint sentiment photos of Glasgow, Scotland from the 1950's.

Glasgow Aerial Photos is a Leaflet map showing the place together with the direction of the sentiment of 159 historical aerial photographs of Glasgow. The photos were taken onetime inwards the 1950's or 1960's past times the Glasgow Corporation Planning Department.

If yous click on the link on whatever of the historical photographs some other Leaflet map volition opened upwards showing only the selected photo. You tin hence zoom inwards together with pan only about the photograph to inspect it inwards greater detail.


Libra is a novel map tool from Development Seed together with Dauria Geo which allows yous to browse, abide by together with download satellite imagery. Using Libra yous tin search together with course of pedagogy opened upwards Landsat information past times date, place together with cloud cover. Find some satellite imagery that yous similar together with yous tin download it together with purpose it inwards your ain maps.

Libra provides a actually neat together with piece of cake to purpose interface for sorting together with downloading from to a greater extent than than 275 Terabytes of opened upwards Landsat imagery. There are no restrictions on the purpose of Landsat opened upwards information together with it tin hold out used or redistributed equally yous require. Each circle on the Libra map represents the publish of available images at that location. You tin filter the available images past times date, cloud encompass per centum together with past times Sun azimuth angle.


Mapbox has created a map visualizing the latest Highway Performance Monitoring System national highway dataset. The Open US Highway Dataset Map shows all the HPMS traffic density measurements for US roads.

Roads on the map alongside traffic density information are colored yellow. The thickness of the yellowish lines on the map relate to the total of traffic. Thick lines betoken to a greater extent than traffic together with thinner lines less traffic. Zoom inwards on the map together with yous tin sentiment the average publish of vehicles per twenty-four lx minutes catamenia for dissimilar sections of roads.

Virtual Tours Alongside Google Draw Of Piece Of Occupation Organisation Photos

Google Business Photos (Google's indoor Street View imagery of businesses) is a groovy resources for businesses to promote themselves on Google Maps together with for customers to cause got a tour of a trace of piece of job organization earlier they visit.

It is too a groovy resources for developers to supply users alongside a persuasion of the within of featured buildings together with businesses. For example, Royal Caribbean Area has created an impressive virtual tour of its newest cruise liner, the Quantum of the Seas.

Discover Quantum Class allows yous to explore the cruise liner on Street View, providing a unique glimpse into the ship's facilities together with rider cabins. You tin role the bill of fare at the elevation left-hand side of the street persuasion imagery to navigate around the ship. The bill of fare allows yous to explore the many restaurants, bars together with other facilities on board together with to cause got a await within a few of the dissimilar classes of rider cabins available.


C Inside Media has created a real impressive guided Street View tour of HMS Cavalier. The application uses Google Maps Street View inward conjunction alongside a narrated well guide to supply a virtual tour of the ship together with its facilities.

The HMS Cavalier is a retired C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, which served inward World War II. Using the HMS Cavalier Guided Tour yous tin explore the ship using the custom Street View imagery. This allows yous to explore all over the ship using Google's interactive panoramic imagery.

Being able to explore the Engine Room, Captain's Cabin together with the Petty Officer's Mess is impressive plenty on its own. However, every bit yous explore HMS Cavalier yous tin too heed to an well guided tour of the ship together with what life was similar on board.

Use the bill of fare at the elevation correct of the Street View to navigate to the dissimilar rooms. While touring the ship too await out for the colored overlays which sometimes look on the Street View images. If yous click on these yous tin too scout videos close the ship.


See Inside PDX is a groovy agency to explore Portland businesses on Google Maps. Users of the map tin browse the indoor Street Views of Portland past times selecting the businesses straight from a Google Map. If yous are feeling lucky yous tin select the 'random' pick together with live on transported to the within of a random business.

Is is too possible to search See Inside PDX past times keyword. So, for example, if yous fancy a repast out yous tin but search for 'restaurants' together with preview the within of all the listed restaurants to detect the 1 that takes your fancy.


The Zombie Manor is an 18th Century English linguistic communication province menage that is forthwith haunted past times the living dead. At weekends teams of zombie hunters pay skillful coin to gamble life together with limb past times taking on the zombies inward the Zombie Manor. The safer pick is to see the manor menage for gratis on Street View.

Zombie Sound Experienz uses the Business Photos Street View tour from the Zombie Manor inward Drayton to exercise a creepy virtual tour, alongside sum 3d sound. The custom Street View tour was created for Drayton Manor past times 360 Agency, who too created the Street View tour of Diagon Alley for the Warner Bros. Studio Tour.

As yous progress through this zombie filled virtual Street View tour yous tin genuinely listen the zombies pursuing you. As yous see the dissimilar rooms inward the Zombie Manor yous volition listen a multifariousness of creepy sounds. Different zombies together with rooms cause got dissimilar sounds attached to them, which larn louder or quieter every bit yous approach or move away from them.

Natural Linguistic Communication Mapping

Parogra.ph is an interesting experiment inwards adding features to a map yesteryear using written commands. Type a place into Parogra.ph in addition to a map mark volition endure added to the map. You tin post away also add together polylines to the map in addition to alter the map type (there is currently a selection of satellite, terrain or manus drawn).

Parogra.ph truly exclusively recognizes a few written commands. You tin post away add together a mark to the map yesteryear but typing inwards a location. You tin post away add together a polyline yesteryear typing 'a business from (location a) to (location b)'. You tin post away alter the map type yesteryear typing 'a terrain map', 'a satellite map' or 'a drawn map'.

As y'all add together features to the map they also automatically added to a GeoJSON formatted text box. When y'all convey finished adding information to the map y'all tin post away in addition to then but cutting in addition to glue the GeoJSON for the features that y'all convey added.

With exclusively a few commands available, equally a map creation tool, Parogra.ph at the 2d is rather limited. It would truly endure quicker to permit users to add together markers to the map yesteryear but dropping a mark on the map or to add together polylines yesteryear but clicking on the map in addition to dragging the business to the required destination.

However equally an experimentally proof of concept I mean value this is truly interesting. It would endure corking to run into this developed thence that to a greater extent than mapping options are available. It could endure real useful to convey a map creation tool that could automatically recognize in addition to map locations & other map features from natural language.

The Snowbound Nyc Underground Map

WNYC has created a fictional interactive map explaining how the New York underground organization could last a hereafter snowmaggedon. On 26th Jan the MTA completely closed the underground organization because of a snowstorm. WYNC has formulated a excogitation to unopen off the overground sections of the underground organization during hereafter snowstorms together with therefore that the hush-hush parts could proceed to run.

The Snowpiercer Scenario is a Mapbox map using custom map tiles of the MTA. The overground parts of the underground organization are faded out on the map, indicating that these lines would live closed. The remaining underground lines are the ones which would remain open.

The WNYC acknowledge that their excogitation together with map was created from 'wild speculation'. However the excogitation seems real sensible. The MTA says that they convey no plans which enable 'hiving off an hush-hush share of the system'. The London Underground seems to cope to live able to produce this on a regular basis. Every weekend sections of but about London Underground lines are closed for 'planned technology scientific discipline work'. Surely the MTA could produce something like inwards New York.

How Katy Perry Won The Super Bowl

I'm oftentimes really disparaging close Simon Rogers' animated Twitter maps. So it is alone fair to hand him credit for his #SB49: @Patriots vs. @Seahawks map, which shows how Katy Perry won the Super Bowl on Twitter.

The map shows the place of Tweets made for the Patriots as well as for the Seahawks during yesterday's Super Bowl. The timeline includes the moments when either side scored during the game. It is quite interesting to come across how the map lights upwards alongside the color of the scoring squad right away later on each touchdown or champaign goal.

The map every bit good includes the locations of people tweeting @katyperry. From the amount of action around @katyperry I'm assuming that this actor scored the winning touchdown.

It is every bit good interesting zooming out on the map as well as having a await at the amount of action the Super Bowl generated on Twitter inward the residue of the world. In Europe, for example. I would estimate that the game was shown alive on tv inward the U.K. as well as perhaps Spain. It doesn't appear to convey generated much involvement inward the residue of Europe.

Mapping Listed Buildings

England's Grade I Listed Buildings is a CartoDB map of historically as well as architecturally of import buildings inward England. If y'all alive inward Scotland hence y'all volition in all likelihood last to a greater extent than interested inward the Historic Buildings of Scotland map, which shows category Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 listed buildings northward of the border.

In the UK buildings that are deemed to accept a special historical, archaeological, architectural or artistic involvement tin last given 'listed building' protection. The listing is designed to protect of import buildings which may non last demolished, extended, or altered without special permission.

Grade I listed buildings inward England are those buildings which are of particular importance. Therefore y'all tin role the English linguistic communication map to divulge the place of interesting buildings throughout England. The map includes quick links to zoom to cities alongside a high proportion of degree I listed buildings. If y'all click on a marking y'all tin stance a building's refer as well as stance a static Street View movie of the building.

The Scottish map shows category Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 listed buildings. This map too provides quick links to zoom to towns alongside a high proportion of listed buildings. If y'all choose a edifice on the map an data window opens alongside a link to the building's page on Historic Scotland.


Rijksmonumenten are national heritage sites inward the Netherlands that accept been listed past times the means Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE). Rijksmonumenten.info has created a Google Map of all the 61,000 listed buildings.

You tin search the map past times type of listed building, including windmills, castles, churches, houses, populace buildings, bridges, farms as well as forts. If y'all click on a building's map marking y'all tin stance details most the listed building. Many of the buildings are accompanied past times an icon slide-show as well as around fifty-fifty include 360° panoramic photographs of the interior.

The Barcelona Architecture Map

Carta Arqueologica is a Google Map of architecturally of import buildings inwards Barcelona.

The map includes a cracking search engine, which allows yous to search Barcelona's architecture yesteryear historic menstruation too yesteryear type. Using the search options yous tin search yesteryear period, for instance Roman, medieval or modern. You tin also search yesteryear edifice type, for example, religious, military machine or habitat.

The private footprints of edifice are displayed on the map. If yous lead a edifice on the map yous tin click-through to larn to a greater extent than virtually the edifice too its history (in Spanish).


Once yous bring discovered roughly architecturally of import buildings to explore on the Carta Arqueologica map yous tin role the Big Time BCN map to notice out out to a greater extent than virtually the building.

The Big Time BCN map colors Barcelona's buildings yesteryear age. When yous click on many of the buildings on the map non solely tin yous sentiment the building's historic menstruation exactly yous tin also sentiment a photograph of the edifice too a detailed concern human relationship of the building's history too architecture.

The map is hence a actually useful tool for discovering to a greater extent than virtually the history of Barcelona's buildings & architecture too a cracking guide for visitors to the metropolis who are interested inwards finding too visiting the city's oldest too most interesting buildings.

The Maps Quiz

Quizzity is a nicely designed map quiz built using the Leaflet mapping library. The quiz itself follows a familiar format, requiring y'all to pinpoint a serial of locations as well as awarding points for the closeness of your answer.

After guessing 5 locations y'all are given your finally score, the average distance y'all guessed from the right place as well as the distance of your best answer. Quizzity likewise keeps runway of your best grade then at that spot is around incentive to instruct out along on playing.

The beginning for Quizzity is likewise available on GitHub.

The Hockey Heatmap Of Canada

The 10 in addition to iii has released a Canadian NHL Players Map. The map shows the release of NHL players from each portion since 1923.

Regions on this hockey heat-map of Canada are assigned a color intensity based on the release of players whose birthplace was inwards that region. The to a greater extent than players relative to the area’s population in addition to therefore the higher the intensity.

The map is a fiddling skewed yesteryear regions amongst a depression population. These regions tin flame demonstrate upwards vivid blood-red fifty-fifty when in that location is alone i player, due to the map showing the release of players per 10,000 residents. The map does include a push clitoris to exclude regions amongst alone i player.

The San Francisco Locomote Fourth Dimension Map

OneBayArea Maps is a keen tool for exploring San Francisco go times together with belongings prices. The map allows y'all to visualize the human relationship betwixt go times together with Bay Area housing prices together with could aid y'all honor an expanse to alive that is both commutable together with affordable.

Center the map on a location inwards the Bay Area, direct your agency of carry together with direct a median family toll together with y'all tin persuasion a map of all the places inwards the expanse that are accessible together with affordable. The areas that tally your criteria are shaded inwards bluish together with y'all tin arrange your criteria using the go fourth dimension together with family prices slider buttons.

If y'all only desire to persuasion only go times or affordable family prices y'all tin plough off the family toll or go times options. The map also allows y'all to explore yesteryear & hereafter scenarios yesteryear choosing a decade from 2010 to 2040.

16 Maps Of Barcelona At Night

atNight is a serial of maps exploring the black fourth dimension landscape of Barcelona. Using information gathered from social media, painting demo sharing websites in addition to dissimilar modes of carry the maps explore how Barcelona at black differs from the Barcelona of the day.

All the maps are static maps which get got been made interactive using the Leaflet.js mapping platform. You tin sack browse through each of the xvi maps using the map menu. Beneath the map is an explanation of the information used inwards each of the xvi views of Barcelona.

The maps role a multifariousness of information sets to explore the landscape of Barcelona's night-life. These include information comparison taxis in addition to wheel movements during the black amongst their movements during the day. Other maps explore the place of Flickr in addition to Instagram photos taken at black amongst those taken during the day.

007 Street View

Your mission, should you lot select to bring it, is to rails downwardly the enemy agents together with remember the stolen files.

On Fri the motion-picture demo 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' opens inward the United States. The film, based on the comic majority The Secret Service created yesteryear Dave Gibbons together with Mark Millar,  tells the storey of a immature street tiddler recruited into the cloak-and-dagger service yesteryear an older spy.

In a novel promotional website, Become a Kingsman, you lot must bring on the business office of the top dog grapheme together with examine your espionage skills inward social club to successfully larn a spy. To larn a cloak-and-dagger agent you lot involve to consummate a let on of missions, which involve maps, Street View together with video footage from the actual movie.

One mission involves you lot tracking downwardly suspects using Street View imagery of London's King Cross station. During the mission you lot involve to role your radar to uncovering the suspects inside the station together with set the suspect who truly has the required intel.

Hat-tip: Google Street View World

The Medieval Undersea Cable Map

Every twelvemonth Telegeography practice an undersea cable map of the footing too every twelvemonth the map gets better.

The 2015 Submarine Cable map is inspired past times medieval too renaissance cartography too features non alone a vintage map mode simply ocean monsters, map edge illustrations and images showing around of the mutual causes of cable faults.

The map shows 299 submarine cable systems across the globe, that are active or are nether construction. The edge illustrations provide information on the capacity information of around of the major cable routes. Other inset illustrations render information on how submarine cables are laid.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 release of  images on the map explicate around of the mutual causes of cable faults. Some fictional causes of cable faults are too included inward the map inward the bird of mythical ocean monsters. The text provided alongside each monster includes a reference to which historical map it get-go appeared on.

3D Superlative Profiles

Mapbox has created a actually groovy bike road planning map for Washington DC which equally good provides a 3d dimensional meridian profile of the route.

Capital Bikeshare allows yous to driblet ii markers on a map to gear upwards your starting betoken in addition to destination. It in addition to then plant out a cycling road betwixt the closest Capital Bikeshare finish to your starting betoken in addition to the closest station to your destination.

The magic actually happens nonetheless when yous click on the 'elevation profile' button. If yous opened upwards the map inward a WebGL enabled browser the map volition argument to an oblique persuasion in addition to a 3d meridian profile volition locomote drawn on transcend of the entire route.


If yous right-click on the map yous tin post away rotate the map persuasion in addition to the 3d meridian profile magically rotates amongst map.

The map was created amongst Mapbox GL. The map degrades good if yous persuasion it on a non-WebGL enabled browser merely yous actually don't instruct the amount 3d effect.

Turf.js was used to ability the nearest wheel station search.

The Province Rover Drivers Map

When it comes to map based promotional campaigns or together with thence automobile manufacturers opt for a fashionable Street View based interactive game. For example, run into the automobile campaigns featured inwards this postal service on The Top five Street View Car Ads.

For their latest promotional get Land Rover has instead chosen to usage a social sharing get centered or together with thence a Mapbox generated satellite map. Well Storied invites Land Rover drivers to portion their Land Rover adventures together with photos amongst the residual of the world.

The get encourages Land Rover drivers to promote the construct on social media past times posting stories, videos together with photographs to Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Facebook or Instagram. The vantage for promoting the construct is that the postal service caould hold out added to the Well Storied map.

To run into to a greater extent than mapped based promotional campaigns cheque out the promotional tag on .

Do You Lot Know The Mode To San Jose?

I mean value most of my cognition nearly the globe is shaped yesteryear the lyrics of pop songs. New York, New York volition ever move a helluva town piece London even as well as therefore burns inwards boredom now.

Spotimap is a CartoDB generated map featuring songs nearly cities or as well as therefore the world. Click on whatever city's musical authorities annotation shaped marking on the map as well as you lot tin stance a listing of songs nearly the selected city. What's more, if you lot choose whatever of the songs from the displayed list, you lot tin heed to the vocal on Spotify.

The map currently lists 7684 songs nearly 212 cities or as well as therefore the world.

How Mobile Phones Define Cities

A Tale of Many Cities is a actually interesting exam of cellphone work inward unlike cities merely about the world. Using the map it is possible to explore the unlike spatio-temporal patterns of cellphone piece of work which emerge inward unlike neighborhoods inward the same city.

On each of the metropolis maps you lot tin guide as well as compare cellphone work information inward unlike neighborhoods. Select 2 (or more) neighborhoods on the map as well as you lot tin persuasion describe graphs of cellphone work over the shape of a hateful solar daytime as well as for unlike days of the week.

Comparing the neighborhoods inward this agency reveals some interesting patterns most how cellphone work differs yesteryear neighborhood inward the same city. For example, inward Los Angeles the Downtown district sees telephone activeness peaking during describe of piece of work organisation hours as well as dropping off inward the evenings as well as at weekends. While inward Florence (a residential district) nosotros come across almost the exact opposite, amongst cellphone work peaking inward the eve as well as at weekends, when people bring returned from work.

If you lot guide the 'spatial clusters' persuasion on a metropolis map you lot tin persuasion neighborhoods colored yesteryear whether they are distinctly business, commercial or residential centers. You tin likewise guide the 'density maps' persuasion to visualize estrus maps showing the give away of calls, population as well as information work inward each of the metropolis neighborhoods.

The Woods Map

The Woodland Trust is a charity tasked amongst the protection in addition to conservation of the UK's native woodland heritage. There are 1,000 Woodland Trust woods across the Britain in addition to the charity's Visiting Woods map is designed to help you lot find, take in in addition to bask these woodland habitats.

The map allows you lot to search for nearby woods yesteryear address in addition to postcode. It is too possible to filter the search results yesteryear exceptional features, such every 2nd gratis parking, marked trails in addition to exceptional wild animals interest. If you lot select a wood's mark on the map you lot tin lead to thought the wood's boundary in addition to to thought data in addition to photographs of the wood.

The 3D Webgl Spitfire Flying Simulator

Over the terminal calendar month the the Google populace API is beingness deprecated it looks similar 3d game developers volition receive got to hold off to other platforms.

WebGL seems to move the format that nearly 3d globe makers are similar a shot moving towards. It wouldn't move surprising therefore if developers every bit good started using WebGL to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than for developing 3d WebGL environments for games every bit well.

That's for certain the direction that Chung Nguyen has taken for his fantabulous WebGL Flight Simulator. I've played a lot of flying simulators created alongside the Google populace API in addition to this WebGL flying simulator is every bit proficient every bit whatsoever of them. In fact it is meliorate every bit it doesn't seem to endure from the lagging problems which seem in addition to so mutual alongside the Google populace API.

In the WebGL Flight Simulator y'all tin wing a publish of dissimilar planes. You tin every bit good chase in addition to burn downwards at other planes inside the 3d environment. I'm non sure if the WebGL generated 3d surround is itself based on existent mapping data. It appears that it mightiness move every bit the instructions nation that 'you tin every bit good wing to whatsoever house closed to the world' (although I haven't managed to practice that myself yet).

There are 3 links to (different versions of?) the game. I've exclusively managed to larn the minute link to work. This mightiness move because of the WebGL enabled browser I'm using in addition to so it mightiness move worth trying the other 2 links every bit well.

The Jurassic Globe Interactive Map

The renowned Jurassic Park amusement complex has rejected the Google Maps API inward favor of the upstart Leaflet.js mapping library. When the world's favorite dinosaur inhabited subject common decided to practise a novel online map for Jurassic World they turned non to the mammoth Google build but instead chose the Microraptor similar independent mapping platform of Leaflet.

The Jurassic World Map is a custom designed, oblique view, interactive map of the world's latest, together with simply about nation virtually exciting, subject park. Visitors to the common tin role the
map to abide by the place of hotels, restaurants, residue rooms together with all the park's best rides together with shows.

With the Jurassic World Map y'all accept no excuse to larn lost when visiting the park. In fact the entirely matter missing from this map is the place of the emergency exits - together with I'm certain y'all won't hold out needing them.

Mapping Infrastructure Harm Inwards Ukraine

The UN Development Programme as well as the Ukrainian NGO Social Boost convey collaborated to unloose a mobile application which allows residents inwards Donetsk as well as Lugansk to map impairment to buildings.

Using the application residents inwards in the war-torn percentage of East Ukraine tin compass the axe upload data as well as photos of buildings which convey been damaged inwards the fighting. The data tin compass the axe thus last used past times assistance agencies to assist restore critical infrastructure inwards the area.

Data uploaded using the app appears on the Redonbass interactive map. The Redonbass map includes links to download the app from the App Store or Google Play.

The Novel York Underground Bacteria Map

I'm non quite certain why you lot would desire to create this only you lot tin forthwith search New York underground stations past times the bacteria that were establish there. Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College establish genetic cloth from 15,152 dissimilar species when they sampled deoxyribonucleic acid at 466 New York underground stations.

The Wall Street Journal has created a searchable map, Mapping the Bacteria inward New York’s Subways, which allows you lot to persuasion all the bacteria establish inward each dissimilar underground station or to persuasion all the stations that a specific bacteria type was discovered in.

Most of the bacteria establish past times the researchers was harmless. There seems to locomote no clear designing inward the distribution of the harmful bacteria. Presumably if the researchers were to repeat the sampling they would notice a completely dissimilar ready of results. However, if you lot ignore the bacteria data, you lot could role the map to programme a journeying across New York

The Christian States Of America

The United States is a wonderful melting pot of people of dissimilar races together with religious beliefs ruled past times a authorities of Christians. 93 per centum of the elected instance of the 114th Congress’ House comes from only the Christian religion.

The Washington Post has created an interactive map showing the Religions of Our Representatives, The map colors each electoral district past times the faith of the representative. You tin sack lead from private faiths to sentiment which representatives follow that religion.

The Washington Post has likewise provided a release of filters which permit yous to present only 'Christians', Non-Christians' or 'Partisan Patterns' on the map.

Happy Tenth Birthday Google Maps

Google Maps is 10 years onetime today. On eighth February 2005 Google Maps was released inwards the USA. Initially Google Maps alone provided an interactive slippy map of the the States only other countries were presently added to the map (by 2006 Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, in addition to or then cities inwards the Republic of Ireland).

In early on Apr 2005 Paul Rademacher released the really kickoff Google Maps hack - HousingMaps. Paul's mashup of Google Maps in addition to aeroplane in addition to housing listings from Craigslist proved that Google Maps could last much to a greater extent than than a useful online map only could also last a tool for amazing information visualizations.

Google embraced Paul's hack of Google Maps in addition to inwards June 2005, Google released the Google Maps API. The Maps API provided a JavaScript library that enabled anyone to purpose Google Maps on their ain websites.


Ten years afterwards Google Maps in addition to the Google Maps API are yet going strong. However Google does instantly aspect upward much tougher competition. Apple Maps, Bing Maps, Here Maps in addition to OpenStreetMap furnish bang-up alternatives to Google Maps. On the JavaScript mapping front end Mapbox, Leaflet.js, Esri in addition to other mapping libraries appear to convey much to a greater extent than active evolution communities instantly than the Google Maps API.

Most of the evolution inwards Google Maps in addition to the Maps API instantly seems focused on mobile devices. So where volition Google Maps last inwards or then other 10 years? I brand no predictions, except to tell that I mean value Google Maps volition in all likelihood yet last i of the marketplace leaders only volition in all likelihood non taste the almost monopolistic pose it has held over the end 10 years. I'm less confident nigh the Google Maps API, equally it seems to last fast becoming an irrelevance inwards the the world of map development.

Maps Of The Week

Chung Nguyen's fantabulous WebGL Flight Simulator allows you lot to receive got command of a break of dissimilar planes. I'm non certain if the WebGL generated 3d environs is based on existent mapping data. It appears that it mightiness go every bit the instructions tell that 'you tin also wing to whatsoever identify around the world' (although I haven't worked out how to practise that).

There are iii links to (different versions of?) the game. I've solely managed to teach the minute link to work. This mightiness go because of the WebGL enabled browser I'm using hence it mightiness go worth trying the other 2 links every bit well.

If you lot desire to endeavour a to a greater extent than traditional map based game as well as hence try Quizzity, a nicely designed map quiz built using the Leaflet mapping library. The quiz itself follows a familiar format, requiring you lot to pinpoint a serial of locations as well as wins points based on the closeness of your answer.


The renowned Jurassic Park amusement complex has rejected the Google Maps API inward favor of the upstart Leaflet.js mapping library. When the world's favorite dinosaur inhabited subject common decided to practise a novel online map for Jurassic World they turned non to the mammoth Google construct but instead chose the Microraptor similar independent mapping platform of Leaflet.

The Jurassic World Map is a custom designed, oblique view, interactive map of the world's latest, as well as around tell around exciting, subject park. Visitors to the common tin role the map to respect the location of hotels, restaurants, balance rooms as well as all the park's best rides as well as shows.


Mapbox has created a actually bully bicycle road planning map for Washington DC which also provides a 3d dimensional peak profile of the route.

Capital Bikeshare allows you lot to drib 2 markers on a map to develop your starting betoken as well as destination. It as well as hence plant out a cycling road betwixt the closest Capital Bikeshare finish to your starting betoken as well as the closest station to your destination.

The magic actually happens notwithstanding when you lot click on the 'elevation profile' button. If you lot opened upwardly the map inward a WebGL enabled browser the map volition arguing to an oblique stance as well as a 3d peak profile volition go drawn on transcend of the entire route. Rotate the map to stance the 3d peak inward all its glory.

Another bully online experiment this calendar week was Parogra.ph. This natural linguistic communication mapping interface allows you lot to add together features to a map past times using written commands. Type a location into Parogra.ph as well as a map mark volition go added to the map. You tin also add together polylines to the map as well as modify the map type (there is currently a pick of satellite, terrain or paw drawn).


OneBayArea Maps is a bully tool for exploring San Francisco move times as well as belongings prices. The map allows you lot to visualize the human relationship betwixt move times as well as Bay Area housing prices as well as could assistance you lot respect an expanse to alive that is both commutable as well as affordable.

Center the map on a location inward the Bay Area, select your agency of carry as well as select a median identify cost as well as you lot tin stance a map of all the places inward the expanse that are accessible as well as affordable. The areas that tally your criteria are shaded inward blueish as well as you lot tin conform your criteria using the move fourth dimension as well as identify prices slider buttons.

The Alive Helsinki Tram Map

Sporat Kartella is a alive animated map of Helsinki's HKL tram network. The map shows the alive place of all Helsinki's trams inward real-time.

The map allows y'all to stance private tram lines or to stance your ain combination of whatever or all of the tram lines. If y'all plough on a tram trouble using the numbered buttons on the map y'all tin stance the trouble overlaid on a Google Map in addition to come across the real-time place of all trams on the line.

Individual trams tin live on followed on the map inward existent time. Each numbered tram map marking includes a pocket-sized trail to betoken the administration of travel.

If y'all similar real-time transit maps in addition to hence too check-out Real-time European Transit Maps in addition to the transit & real-time tags on .

Mapping Bacteria On The Novel York Subway

On Sabbatum reported on the Wall Street Journal's map of Bacteria on the New York Subways. The map plots the results of a Weill Cornell Medical College study into bacteria industrial plant life inward 466 New York subway stations.

The study industrial plant life genetic cloth from 15,152 dissimilar species at the dissimilar subway stations together with the map allows y'all to explore which bacteria were industrial plant life where. I'm non alone certain why the WSJ felt the withdraw to map the data. Most of the bacteria industrial plant life yesteryear the researchers was harmless together with if the study was to hold upwards repeated I assume they would notice completely dissimilar results.

However the get-go dominion of neo-geography says that "if at that topographic point is information available it must hold upwards mapped". Therefore nosotros already bring a instant interactive map of bacteria on the New York subway system.

The primary payoff of the Pathomap map is that it provides a heat-map stance that partially resembles a huge bacteria attacking New York. The map is in all likelihood nearly interesting for the heat-map controls which allow the user to adapt the heat-map opacity, heat-map radius together with the heat-map color scaling. Now that is interesting.

The Time-Line Map Wizard

Events Visualization is an interesting demonstration of an animated time-line of events on a Google Map. The tool tin assistance you lot practise a mapped visualization of events across fourth dimension in addition to infinite amongst markers indicating the magnitude of events.

The tool comes amongst an interesting evidence map visualizing Islamic terrorist attacks unopen to the earth since 1983. The map animates through each assault inward chronological order, amongst iii dissimilar speeds of playback. The reddish round out markers are scaled to correspond the issue of deaths involved inward each attack.

The Events Visualization tool uses information stored inward a Google Spreadsheet. To practise your ain animated time-line map using the tool you lot ask to practise a Google Spreadsheet from your ain information in addition to only plug-in the spreadsheet URL. There are also a few options to arrange the await of your map.

When you lot convey completed your map you lot tin lay out it on your ain website past times only cutting  & pasting the embed code for the map.

The Hsbc Revenue Enhancement Files Map

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been doing some groovy reporting lately exposing the hole-and-corner offshore coin organisation that businesses, politicians as well as wealthy individuals role to avoid paying taxes.

Last calendar month the consortium released an interactive map, ICIJ Offshore Leaks, from an analysis of 2.5 meg leaked fiscal records. This map links to over lx stories around the globe that resulted from the investigation. Users of the map tin click on locations around the basis to read the journalists' stories associated alongside that location. Another map layer provides an overview of taxation havens around the basis as well as their popularity alongside the global taxation dodging elite.

Today the ICIJ has released some other interactive map, this fourth dimension providing a heat-map thought of the countries alongside the largest dollar amounts inwards the leaked HSBC Swiss files. The hole-and-corner documents give away how global banking giant HSBC has been helping taxation dodgers hide hundreds of millions of dollars from taxation regime around the world.

The ICIJ HSBC Leak Map provides an overview of which countries accept lost the nearly taxation revenue from the activities of the banking concern as well as the taxation dodgers involved. If you lot conduct a province on the map you lot tin thought the release of clients involved as well as the estimate total of coin involved from that country.

The interactive visualization too provides data on a release of good known celebrities as well as individuals involved inwards the scam as well as links to other stories from the leak of the HSBC files.

Mapping Street Fine Art Closed To The World

If you're interested inwards recording together with documenting goodness examples of street fine art thence yous should reckon getting the Graffiti Mapper app. Using the app yous tin submit examples of goodness street fine art to the Graffiti Mapper basis map merely past times taking a photo.

You tin too purpose the app together with the Graffiti mapper website to detect nearby examples of street fine art using the Graffiti Mapper map.


Red Bull Street View Art is about other global map of street art. This map showcases examples of graffiti together with street fine art which tin live on constitute on Google Maps Street View. Adding your ain finds to the map is really easy. It exactly involves finding the correct place on the map and dragging the Street View to pick out care of the best shot of the street fine art that yous want to submit.



If yous desire to detect goodness examples of street fine art inwards Prague thence accept a await at Art Spotting, a Google Map of Prague street fine art together with graffiti.

The map is the operate of a grouping of Prague fine art students together with marks the locations of both graffiti together with street fine art inwards the Czech capital. Users tin submit fine art operate to the map past times completing a curt form.

The City of Melbourne has instigated an interesting induce aimed at educating the city's youth close the differences betwixt street fine art together with graffiti.

As business office of the induce the metropolis has created an ArcGIS Story Map highlighting about of the best of Melbourne's street art. The content for the Do Art Not Tags map has been collected using ArcGIS's Collector App which allows for photos of the street fine art to live on captured past times smartphone, uploaded to Flickr together with straightaway added to the map.


The Arte Fora create Museu projection aims to map the industrial plant of fine art that tin live on constitute on the streets of São Paulo. The project's Google Map provides a dandy metropolis require to São Paulo's publicly accessible industrial plant of art.

The map highlights the murals, sculptures, architecturally of import buildings together with graffiti that tin live on constitute inwards the city's world spaces. Each fine art operate on the map includes a detailed synopsis past times an skillful on the work. If yous click on a marking yous tin persuasion the fine art operate using Google Maps Street View, persuasion the experts comments inwards a YouTube video together with read a brief description of the work.

Bangladesh In Addition To Netherlands On Street View

Last calendar week Google Maps added Street View imagery inward Bangladesh. The commencement Street View imagery inward People's Republic of Bangladesh is available inward the capital, Dhaka in addition to the port metropolis of Chittagong.


This calendar week Google has besides added a lot of novel off-road Street View inward the Netherlands. The novel imagery includes Delft Town Hall in addition to Delft Market. In Amsterdam y'all tin plough over the axe straight off tour the city's canal's on Street View. You tin plough over the axe besides take in the Amsterdam Arena in addition to the Concertgebouw inward Amsterdam.


In Gouda y'all tin plough over the axe tour the Town Hall in addition to Gouda Market. The Natural History Museum inward Maastricht is besides straight off on Street View. In Utrecht y'all tin plough over the axe tour the city's canal network in addition to the Machinekamer inward Lemmer.

Animated Oestrus Maps

CartoDB has released CartoDB Heat Maps. The novel oestrus maps choice inwards CartoDB leverages the ability of the Torque library, which allows developers to efficiently homecoming as well as reveal real large datasets to the client.

Torque is likely best known for its temporal capabilities, which ability all those real pop animated Twitter maps that you lot induce got no dubiety seen (for lawsuit this Super Bowl Twitter map). The novel CartoDB Heat Maps options tin ship away equally good role Torque's temporal abilities to practise animated oestrus maps.

These novel animated oestrus maps are of degree real visually engaging. However, the best lawsuit of a map using CartoDB Heat Maps that I've seen as well as then far is this Placenames Heatmap. The map allows you lot to stance a oestrus map of words used inwards USA house names.

Type a discussion into the map as well as it searches United States placenames as well as creates a oestrus map of the results. In the screenshot at the tiptop of this postal service you lot tin ship away run into the results of searching for placenames, including the words 'silver' as well as 'gold'.


You tin ship away stance an lawsuit of an animated oestrus map on the Chicago Lord's Day Times. The Times has taken information from the role of Chicago's snowfall plows during the recent blizzards to practise an animated oestrus map showing Chicago's streets beingness cleared on the 1st as well as 2d February.

Another lawsuit of an animated oestrus map is Farmer Heatmap. This 1 lets you lot lookout an animated oestrus map of a farmer plowing, sowing or harvesting his fields (I'm non certain which).