The Maps Of The Week

Can yous run faster than a tiger? This novel WWF Tiger Challenge map lets yous compare your running information amongst that of a existent tiger.

The Worldwide Wildlife Fund are tracking the daily movements of a tiger inwards Russia. His daily rail is visualized on a Google Map in addition to shows the full distance traveled in addition to his average speed over the shape of the day.

To uncovering out if yous could vanquish the tiger inwards a running race yous tin connect your ain information from a issue of sports tracking apps (including Runkeeper, Nike+, Strava & Map My Run). Once you've added your information yous volition thence uncovering whether yous are equally fast equally a tiger or not. My advice is to cheat in addition to at to the lowest degree utilisation a bike when racing a tiger.


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few weeks agone CartoDB released CartoDB Heat Maps. This novel oestrus maps pick inwards CartoDB leverages the mightiness of the Torque library, which allows developers to efficiently homecoming in addition to issue really large datasets to the client.

CartoDB Heat Maps tin too go used amongst Torque to practise animated oestrus maps. Where this could go item useful is inwards visualizing weather condition information in addition to patterns. For example, check-out this map of historical Hurricane in addition to Tropical Cyclone Track Density. The map animates the rail density of hurricanes in addition to tropical cyclones from 2000-2013, using information from the National Climatic Data Center - NOAA.


Not to go outdone Mapbox has been playing amongst the latest update of Turf.js to practise animated oestrus maps of historical U.S. of A. of America hail data. Turf now includes powerful novel functions to aggregate dense indicate information into grids in addition to oestrus maps. Mapbox has created a demonstration of this novel oestrus map mightiness inwards a weblog post, Animated Heatmaps in addition to Grids amongst Turf.

The map non solely shows an animated oestrus map of historical hail information exactly too allows yous to thought the information equally animated hexbins, triangles, squares in addition to points. The map too includes the pick to thought the animated information inwards 3 unlike speeds.


Recently I've spent a lot of fourth dimension creating vintage map browsers amongst the Leaflet mapping library. I used the San Francisco Vintage Maps.

Well it turns out that Vestiges of New York has created a meliorate collection of New York vintage maps, too using vintage maps from both the NYPL in addition to the David Rumsey collection of historical maps. Their NYC Time Machine is really like to my map, except it has far to a greater extent than vintage maps of New York maps for yous to browse through.

The NYC Time Machine includes 27 vintage maps of New York, ranging inwards appointment from 1660 to 1924. The map includes a non bad pick to chop-chop switch betwixt your chosen vintage map in addition to a modern map, allowing yous to compare the vintage map to the modern streets of New York.