Wow - It's The Maps Of The Week

The Mapbox Blog is continuing to showcase nifty maps built using Turf.js. Last calendar week 1 of my favorite maps was a road planner using Capital Bikeshare stations. That map used Turf.js alongside peak information to render an amazing 3d peak nautical chart along a wheel route.

This calendar week the Mapbox Blog continued to demonstrate the geospatial processing abilities of Turf alongside an animated map of the Iditarod, an annual sled Canis familiaris race which takes house inwards Alaska. Time Travel Across the Iditarod alongside Turf replays the whole race, allowing you lot to follow the progress of each of the Canis familiaris sleds over the shape of the xv 24-hour interval race.


CartoDB has also been busy alongside novel characteristic releases. This calendar week they announced CartoDB Heat Maps. The novel oestrus maps selection inwards CartoDB leverages the ability of the Torque library, which allows developers to efficiently homecoming in addition to pose out real large datasets to the client.

Torque is in all likelihood best known for its temporal capabilities, which ability all those real pop animated Twitter maps that you lot conduct keep no incertitude seen (for instance this Super Bowl Twitter map). The novel CartoDB Heat Maps options tin terminate also purpose Torque's temporal abilities to practice animated oestrus maps.

These novel animated oestrus maps are of shape real visually engaging. However, the best instance of a map using CartoDB Heat Maps that I've seen in addition to hence far is this Placenames Heatmap. The map allows you lot to persuasion a oestrus map of words used inwards the States place-names.

Type a discussion into the map in addition to it searches States place-names in addition to creates a oestrus map of the results. In the screenshot inwards a higher house you lot tin terminate encounter the results of searching for place-names, including the words 'silver' in addition to 'gold'.


This calendar week I was also impressed alongside Events Visualization, an interesting agency to animate a time-line of events on a Google Map. The tool tin terminate assistance you lot practice a mapped visualization of events across fourth dimension in addition to infinite alongside markers indicating the magnitude of events.

The tool comes alongside an interesting demo map visualizing Islamic terrorist attacks only about the basis since 1983. The map animates through each prepare on inwards chronological order, alongside 3 dissimilar speeds of playback. The cherry-red round down markers are scaled to correspond the issue of deaths involved inwards each attack.


Finally, for a flake of fun, you lot mightiness also desire to conduct keep a await at Baaam.international, a Leaflet map which allows you lot to describe on a blank map. Actually the map isn't solely blank every bit you lot conduct keep to part your canvass alongside other artists signing-in from only about the world.

Once you lot conduct keep zoomed into a blank department of the map you lot tin terminate select the 'draw' tool to outset drawing direct on the map. When you lot conduct keep finished your sketch, if you lot similar what you lot conduct keep drawn, you lot tin terminate select the 'share' push to catch a URL which provides a direct link to your drawing on the map.