The Existent Globe Gta 5 Map

If you lot are a big fan of GTA V in addition to thus you lot mightiness desire to catch about of the landmarks from the game inwards existent life. Apparently many of the buildings in addition to landmarks used inwards the game are based on real-world counterparts inwards Los Angeles in addition to Southern California.

The Los Santos Landmarks Map is a GTA V map which compares buildings in addition to landmarks inwards Los Santos amongst the existent landmarks in addition to buildings that they were modeled on. If you lot click on a marking on the map or pick out a edifice from the map sidebar you lot tin forcefulness out compare photos of the landmark - from the game in addition to from its real-life counterpart. You tin forcefulness out besides sentiment a modest Google Map satellite sentiment of the real-world edifice in addition to click-through to sentiment its place on Google Maps.

If you lot simply desire to sentiment an interactive map of Los Santos in addition to the place of of import locations inwards the game in addition to thus check-out the GTA five Map.

International Infinite Station Radio

Since Apr of this twelvemonth the International Space Station has been broadcasting the ISS hard disk footing Viewing Experiment, a alive video current of Earth. Since this video broadcast went alive nosotros accept seen a release of applications which accept embedded the USTREAM video on superlative of maps showing the electrical current place of the ISS inward a higher house the Earth.

One of the best maps of the ISS hard disk footing Viewing Experiment is ISS Live, a beautiful WebGL footing visualization showing the set of the International Space Station amongst ISS's alive stance of the Earth. The visualization uses Kloken Technolgies' WebGL Earth with Mapbox's satellite imagery.


Another interesting map of the alive video current together with the set of the ISS is radioISS. This map allows yous to stance the ISS hard disk footing Viewing video land listening to radio stations from but about the world. As the International Space Station travels but about the footing radioISS automatically tunes into radio stations from the dry reason that the ISS is currently flight over (or from countries nearby).

The No Bears Inwards The Bathtub Map

In Georgia it's illegal to proceed your ass inward a bathtub, inward Oklahoma y'all tin hold upwards arrested for making ugly faces towards a domestic dog too inward West Virginia it is illegal to harass a Bigfoot or Sasquatch.

The earth is sum of foreign too ridiculous laws. The World's Craziest Laws is a Google Map which allows y'all to sentiment the silliest laws of each province too each U.S. of A. state. Just click on a province or province on the map too y'all tin sentiment to a greater extent than or less of the nigh crazy laws, equally listed on Dumb Laws.

The Novel York Rat Map

The NYC Rat Map is a Leaflet.js powered map showing the latest reports of rat sightings inwards New York City. The map shows the locations of all rat sightings inwards the metropolis since 4/5/2014. If yous guide a mark on the map yous tin sentiment details most the appointment of the sighting, the surroundings of the sighting as well as the exact address.

The NYC Rat Map uses Dave Leaver's Marker Clusterering plug-in for Leaflet. The plug-in creates numbered markers for clusters of near-by markers. If yous click on a numbered mark the map volition zoom inwards to give away the course of teaching markers for each rat sighting.

The Marvelous Maps Of The Week

Eric Fischer at Mapbox has mapped half-dozen billion geo-tagged Twitter messages. The 6 Billion Tweets Map is a bully visualization of Twitter's global appeal, non entirely showing where Twitter is pop precisely also where the social network has even therefore to arrive at traction.

Mapping half-dozen billion Tweets is quite a technical achievement. If y'all are interested inwards how Eric was able to cope mapping therefore much information on ane map together with therefore y'all should read his Mapbox weblog post on how he created the map. In item y'all mightiness endure interested inwards a novel tool which Eric has developed for making vector tiles from large information sets, called Tippecanoe.


Bath is a beautiful city, amount of beautiful Georgian buildings. It also immediately has a beautiful historical map website.

I've seen a lot of historical map websites and History Map: Bath stands out equally ane of the ameliorate designed visualizations of one-time maps. This Leaflet.js created map allows y'all to stance 8 historical maps of the city, ranging from the 1500′s through to the 1940′s.

The site allows y'all to stance the historical maps on elevation of the modern map of Bath using a magnifying drinking glass lens overlay. Alternatively y'all tin forcefulness out switch to stance each of the historical maps inwards full-screen mode. H5N1 map inset also provides a piddling information on each of the historical map overlays


One of the prettiest looking maps this calendar week was this animated map of Flights Over Queens. This CartoDB created map is a bully visualization of flying patterns over New York City.

The map animates flights on the level of Oct 1st 2014 coming into together with exiting JFK, LGA together with EWR. The map also shows the flying paths of each of the evening's flights. The termination is a rather beautiful map of flying patterns over the city.

How To Pronounce Esjufjöll

The 2010 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull caused major disruption to air move across Europe. Eyjafjallajökull likewise caused major disruption to newsreaders unopen to the world, who had the daily arrive at out of having to pronounce the volcano's cite correctly.

Ragnar Heidar has straight off created a Leaflet.js map to learn y'all how to pronounce the names of Icelandic volcanoes correctly. Icelandic Volcanoes - Learn to pronounce them BEFORE they erupt is a handy map which includes a audio recording of all Iceland's volcanoes' names.

Just click on a volcano on the map as well as y'all tin head to a audio clip which teaches y'all how to pronounce the volcano's cite correctly.

The Snowfall Plows Of Newark

On the even out of Thanksgiving the brave men as well as women of the City of Newark were busy plowing the streets of snow. Their efforts convey been immortalized for always inwards this animated map of the City's twelve snowfall plows inwards action.

Snow Plow Trucks inwards Newark, NJ is a CartoDB map which shows the animated tracks of each of the City's snowfall plows on the solar daytime of the 26th November. The activity starts at 10 inwards the morning time as well as continues through until 9.30 pm.

You tin pick out to thought all of the City's snowfall plows inwards activity or pick out to thought the movements of private plows. The play-back command allows y'all to rails the fourth dimension of solar daytime as well as to navigate to whatever fourth dimension during the day.

Where The River Flows

Recently Stephen Von Worley created a serial of beautiful maps, Crayon the Grids, inward which the U.S.'s roads were colored past times orientation. Andrew Hill has created a like map of U.S. Rivers Colored past times the Direction they Flow.

The map uses information from Nelson Minar's Vector River Map, which inward plough uses river menstruation information from NHDPlus. Andrew has too used the same river information to exercise about other beautiful map. Rivers amongst Rainfall. This map shows U.S.A. rivers as well as rainfall inward the final hour. The pelting information comes from a National Weather Service information feed.

Zombies On Your Street

Are There Zombies inwards Your Neighbourhood? is a fun Street View application which allows you lot to stance a zombie walking downward your street. Enter an address into the app as well as you lot tin give the sack lookout an animated zombie walking downward your street using Google Maps Street View imagery.

As the zombie walks downward your street you lot tin give the sack accommodate the viewpoint as well as fifty-fifty accommodate the size of the zombie. You tin give the sack besides select handgrip of the URL of your Street View animation which makes it slow to portion your zombie Street View alongside friends.

I couldn't larn Are There Zombies inwards Your Neighbourhood? to hap Firefox or Internet Explorer but it worked fine inwards Chrome.

The Mapping Of The Ring

One of the big trends inwards interactive maps over the final twelve months has been the growing role of even maps. This yr digital maps convey been used to say stories inwards long-form word reports in addition to inwards impressive information visualizations. While even maps convey been pop inwards these non-fiction narratives they convey non been used every bit much soundless inwards the public of fiction.

One actually impressive exception to this tendency is The Fellowship of the Ring map. This Leaflet.js created map animates through a re-telling of The Lords of the Ring. Just press play in addition to you lot tin sit down dorsum in addition to spotter an interactive visualization of the adventures of Frodo Baggins in addition to his colleagues on a map of Middle-Earth.

As the narrative unfolds you lot tin sentiment the movements of all the primary characters on the map. At the same fourth dimension a real shortened version of the even is revealed inwards text at the meridian of the map. During the tale you lot tin click on whatever of the characters' markers to larn a piddling to a greater extent than almost the primary protagonists inwards Tolkein's epic story.

The Fellowship of the Ring map tin every bit good last synchronized alongside the movie. If you lot choose this selection in addition to get-go the map at the same fourth dimension every bit the cinema you lot tin run out on runway of all the characters on the map every bit you lot spotter Peter Jackson's film.

Mapping The Historic Menstruum Of Chicago's Buildings

Back inwards July Wired published a overnice tutorial on how to orbit a edifice historic menstruum map. In Adventures inwards Mapmaking Wired's MapLab non alone provided a peachy tutorial on how to map the ages of a city's buildings simply too created an example map visualizing the ages of Chicago's buildings.

The Wired Chicago map is OK simply it is missing a legend (so it is hard to orbit upwardly one's heed a building's historic menstruum from its color) in addition to it is too missing whatsoever filtering options. Both these problems convey been addressed inwards Shaun Jacobsen's Chicago Building Age Map.

This map non alone includes a overnice legend (so yous tin flaming say what the edifice colors represent) it too includes the choice to filter the buildings shown on the map past times their twelvemonth of construction. This filtering choice agency that yous tin flaming select to visualize alone the city's oldest buildings on the map. Alternatively, if yous desire to stance the city's newest buildings, yous tin flaming visualize alone those buildings constructed this century.

The map too allows yous to mouse-over whatsoever of the private buildings on the map to stance its twelvemonth of construction.

Historical Novel York Map Tiles

I'm a huge fan of the New York Public Library's Map Warper project. Using the tool people accept been digitally aligning the library's historical map collection too hence that the maps tin survive overlaid on modern interactive maps. The lawsuit is that you lot tin at i time browse over 10,000 historical maps on the Map Warper website.

CartoDB this calendar week noticed that you lot tin also purpose the map tiles from whatsoever of the over 10,000 historical maps inward your ain interactive maps. They accept fifty-fifty posted a non bad tutorial, Using NYPL Map Warper maps within CartoDB, explaining the uncomplicated procedure of adding the map tiles from i of the New York Public Library maps to your ain CartoDB map.

Of course of pedagogy you lot tin also purpose the Map Warper map tiles amongst other mapping platforms. If you lot follow the CartoDB tutorial, specially the banknote on tweaking the NYPL Map Warper URL for the map tiles, you lot should survive able to easily operate out how you lot tin add together a NYPL historical map to a Leaflet, Mapbox or Google Maps API map.

As an lawsuit of displaying i of the maps amongst Leaflet.js I've added the NYPL's Railroad Map of the U.S.A. to my growing map of  Map Tiles for Leaflet.

Mapping Rosetta

The European Space Agency's Rosetta infinite probe is straight off orbiting simply about comet 67P. On the twelfth Nov the Philae lander was launched from Rosetta together with landed on the comet. Contact was lost amongst Philae on the 15th Nov later the lander's batteries ran out of power. In August 2015, when the comet has moved closer to the Sun, it is possible that the lander's solar panels volition have plenty solar unloosen energy for Philae to recharge its batteries.

You tin rail comet 27P together with Rosetta every bit it travels through the solar organization on ESA's 3d map, Where is Rosetta?. The map shows the place of Rosetta, the planets together with the Sun. You tin every bit good playback the entirety of Rosetta's journey, from its launch inwards March 2004 to its rendezvous amongst comet 67P inwards August 2014 together with beyond.

If you lot click on the 'Where is Rosetta today' you lot tin every bit good sentiment the spacecraft's electrical current position.

People From Novel Jersey Are Lazy

There stimulate got been about actually beautiful mapped visualizations of New York City taxi data. These 3 OpenHeatMap aren't them. However, although they mightiness non survive the prettiest maps, they all the same reveal about interesting patterns inwards how New Yorkers go past times taxi, how much they tip together with where people go from.

This Laziest together with Furthest-Traveling heat-map (pictured) visualizes how far people go inwards New York from dissimilar pick-up points. The map appears to reveal a distinct pattern, inwards that the farther W y'all are inwards New York hence the lazier y'all are. People inwards New Bailiwick of Jersey seem to stimulate got the shortest taxi rides together with those inwards Queens the longest. The exception to this dominion seems to survive inwards the southern Financial District, where cab passengers are every bit good bully on longer journeys.

The Best together with Worst Tippers heat-map reveals that those starting their journeys inwards the Financial District are every bit good the biggest tippers. This may stimulate got something to produce alongside all the high earners working inwards Wall Street. Alternatively it may simply survive that those who stimulate got the longest journeys halt upward paying the largest tips.

The NYC Taxi Trips heat-map shows the locations inwards New York alongside the near taxi pickups. This reveals that carry hubs are amidst the near pop places to direct grip of a cab. For example, LaGuardia Airport together with Grand Central Station are distinct hot-spots on this map.


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 far prettier map of New York taxi information is the NYC Taxi Holiday Visualization.This map visualizes taxi traffic from JFK together with LGA airports during the 2013 vacation flavour (Nov 15th to Dec 31st).

The NYC Taxi Holiday Visualization animates taxi journeys from New York's airports over the flat of a calendar month together with half. As the animation plays y'all tin give the sack thought the animated tracks of thousands of private cab journeys taken from JFK together with LGA airports to all parts of the city.

While the animation plays out on the map the side-panel keeps a running full of the let out of taxi trips taken from each of the airports' terminals. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bar graph at the bottom of the map every bit good reveals the let out of taxi journeys taken on each day. The graph reveals the drib inwards flights during Thanksgiving together with a distinct rising inwards traffic later the vacation weekend every bit people wing dorsum into NYC, presumably later visiting identify unit of measurement exterior of the city.


NYC Taxis: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day inwards the Life is a MapBox visualization of the journeying of i New York taxi over the flat of 24 hours.

The map animates i New York taxi's route over the flat of a day. As the animation plays the taxi's position is shown past times a xanthous circle map marker. All the rider journeys are added to the map alongside a bluish polyline. While the animation plays the map every bit good keeps a running full of the cab's full let out of passengers, fares together with tips received.

Once y'all stimulate got viewed a 24-hour interval inwards the life of this New York taxi y'all tin give the sack pick out from about other i of 30 cab journeys mapped over 24 hours.


Hubcab is a mapped visualization of 170 1000000 taxi trips over i twelvemonth inwards New York City. Using the map it is possible to thought all pickup together with drop-off points inwards the metropolis together with to thought the let out of trips taken betwixt 2 assort locations.

Locations that were used every bit taxi pickup points inwards the metropolis are shown every bit xanthous dots on the map together with drop-off points are shown every bit bluish dots. It is every bit good possible to refine the results displayed on the map past times fourth dimension of day.

You tin give the sack thought the let out of taxi journeys betwixt 2 dissimilar locations  by dropping 2 markers on the map. After y'all identify the markers on the map y'all tin give the sack run across the let out of taxi journeys taken inwards i twelvemonth inwards both directions betwixt the 2 locations. You tin give the sack fifty-fifty refine the results past times fourth dimension of 24-hour interval to explore when the near journeys betwixt the 2 points are made at dissimilar times of the day.

Mapping California's Drought

I've been searching the arid desert valleys of the cyberspace for a while, looking for a decent mapped visualization of the California drought. Ironically, merely every moment the drought-stricken areas of Southern California hold back similar they mightiness teach some welcome rain, a really skillful map has appeared from the clouds.

Unsurprisingly this informative map of the California Drought Visualized amongst Open Data comes from the U.S. Geological Society. As y'all scroll downwards the page this USGS map explains the resultant of the drought on the H2O tabular array in addition to explores issues around H2O role due to the electrical flow drought.

The map visualization starts amongst a clever animated bar chart, synchronized to the map, showing California's reservoir volumes since 2011. As y'all progress the map goes on to explore the resultant of the drought on snowpack in addition to the knock-on resultant on river flows in addition to reservoir volumes.

The map concludes amongst an exam of H2O usage inwards the state, exploring the percent of the state's H2O used inwards irrigation in addition to for domestic & industrial use.

The Announcement Of Independence Map

The Digital Declaration of Independence uses the Neatline even out map tool to acquaint a high-resolution scan of the 1823 facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, an annotated version of John Trumbull's 1819 icon 'Declaration of Independence' as well as a map showing the dwelling family towns of all those who signed the Declaration.

I especially admire the means the Neatline mapping tool has been used to practise an interactive version of Trumball's painting. John Trumbull's, Declaration of Independence, depicts the presentation of the draft of the Declaration of Independence to Congress. 42 of the 56 signers of the Declaration are portrayed inward the painting.

If you lot scroll to the bottom of the map sidebar you lot tin run across a listing of all those who signed the Declaration of Independence. If you lot pick out the 'painting' icon side yesteryear side to the cite of i of the signers the mapped icon zooms inward to demo their portraiture inward the painting. Their cite also as well as then appears inward the map carte du jour as well as you lot tin pick out the cite to read a biography of their life. If you lot pick out the 'map' icon side yesteryear side to a cite you lot tin persuasion their hometown on a map of the United States.

Mapping The Wasted Generation

Social Explorer has collaborated alongside the Census Bureau to render an interesting exam of the lives of immature adults inwards the U.S.A. today. Young Adults Then in addition to Now uses census information to compare the instruction in addition to incomes of today's 18-34 twelvemonth former adults alongside those of previous generations.

At the optic of the visualization is a Leafet.js interactive map which allows y'all to guide a state, tube expanse or county to compare census information inwards the selected expanse alongside the information for the residual of the United States.

After y'all convey selected a place on the map y'all tin hand the sack compare a attain of social-economic information related to 18-34 twelvemonth former adults alongside the information from previous censuses. The information reveals that spell immature Americans today are on the whole improve educated that previous generations they are much worse off financially, are to a greater extent than probable to last living alongside parents, to a greater extent than probable to last living inwards poverty in addition to less probable to last inwards employment.

The Footing Ecosystems Map

The United States of America of America Geological Survey (USGS) too Esri convey released a detailed global ecological province units map. The map allows y'all to click on whatever location inwards the footing to thought the bioclimate, landform, lithology, too province comprehend parameters at that location.

Select a location on the Explore the Ecological Tapestry of the World map too 4 inset maps divulge the bioclimate, landforms, stone types too province comprehend that tin laissez passer on the axe move constitute at the chosen location. The 4 ecological features are likewise listed at the altitude of the master copy map layer.


You tin laissez passer on the axe likewise explore the novel global ecosystems map on a novel Esri Story Map, Explore a Tapestry of World Ecosystems. This map likewise allows y'all to click on whatever location inwards the footing to thought a breakdown of the selected ecosystem.

The Explore a Tapestry of World Ecosystems map likewise features an ecosystems tour, which looks inwards to a greater extent than exceptional at places to a greater extent than or less the globe where the multifariousness of ecological facets is highly concentrated.

Mapping Schoolhouse Segregation

Sixty years afterward the 'Brown vs Board of Education' Supreme Court ruling that nation laws establishing separate world schools for dark together with white students was unconstitutional many schools inward the USA remain, to all intents together with purposes, segregated past times race.

Diversity inward New York City's Schools is a Google Map visualizing the largest racial grouping inward each New York school. Each schoolhouse is represented past times a dot, colored to bring out the largest racial grouping inside that school. If y'all direct a school's marking on the map y'all tin persuasion a breakdown of that school's racial make-up.


The Miami Herald's written report into The Changing Demographics of Miami-Dade Schools includes a revealing interactive map, which allows readers to explore the demographic of 460 Miami-Dade schools.

The map uses colored map markers to highlight schools on the map where 85% or to a greater extent than of the students are dark or Hispanic. You tin direct private schools on the map to persuasion the consummate demographic make-up of the pupil body, with percentages for the number of black, white, Hispanic together with 'other' students.


The sectarian separate inward Northern Republic of Ireland has resulted inward a large proportion of people living inward areas where the population are either predominantly Protestant or predominantly Roman Catholic. To overcome this religious 'apartheid' together with to ensure that the children of both religions are non segregated Northern Republic of Ireland needs inclusive schools, schools where pupils are able to mix together with larn with children of other religions.

Unfortunately Northern Ireland's schools are every bit segregated every bit the residual of Northern Republic of Ireland society. According to The Detail "almost one-half of Northern Ireland’s schoolchildren are beingness taught inward schools where 95% or to a greater extent than of the pupils are of the same religion".

The Detail has used information from the Department of Education to map the religious segregation inward Northern Ireland's schools. The Detail's Segregated Schools map reveals the pct of Roman Catholic together with Protestant pupils inward each of Northern Ireland's schools.

Gaudi On Street View

I know some people convey an irrational hate of Gaudí's Sagrada Família inwards Barcelona simply it happens to last 1 of my favorite buildings. I'm thence delighted that you lot tin straight off explore within the architect's iconic Cathedral on Google Maps Street View.


Fans of the Castilian architect mightiness too last interested inwards taking a virtual stroll to a greater extent than or less his Park Güell on Street View.

If you lot aren't a fan of Gaudi in that place are many other non bad culturally together with historically of import Castilian locations that you lot tin explore on Street View. Spain: Heritage Monuments together with Landmarks is a novel collection of l of import landmarks together with heritage monuments inwards Kingdom of Spain that you lot tin access via Google Views.

The collection includes the Cathedral of Seville, a vertiginous walk along the meridian of the Ponte del Diable together with the Bilbao Bullring.

BTW - the ikon at the meridian of this postal service was created amongst the #rorschmap Street View Edition map.

The Goal Of Blue Planet Every Mo Nosotros Know It

Google has announced that they volition endure closing downward the Google basis API on Dec twelfth 2015.

The principal argue given past times Google for the retirement of the API is its reliance on the NPAPI plugin framework. Chrome as well as Firefox convey both late announced that they volition no longer endure supporting this framework for safety reasons. Another argue may endure that the Google basis API isn't hugely pop amongst developers.

Not solely does Google basis take away a plug-in to operate inwards the browser it tin too endure fairly wearisome to load. With the huge advances inwards WebGL globes as well as the popularity of the Cesium JavaScript library for creating WebGL 3D globes the Google basis API is no longer the logical alternative for developing 3d basis views for the browser.

In today's proclamation close the deprecation of the Google basis API, Google too said,

3D is inwards our blood, as well as spell nosotros can’t denote anything simply now, nosotros await frontward to sharing to a greater extent than exciting production tidings inwards the future.

This strongly hints that at that spot volition endure a replacement for the Google basis API. This could either endure a novel WebGL based version of Google basis for the browser or maybe a 3d globe persuasion inwards the long overdue Google Maps API v4.

Google Maps API v3 creates maps of a vastly unlike experience as well as pattern than the novel await Google Maps. In the novel await Google Maps when yous zoom out yous are able to persuasion a 3d Google basis type globe. You are too able to persuasion 3d globes of the Luna as well as Mars. If Google produce always larn some to releasing a v4 of the Maps API it is possible that the 3d globe Earth, Luna as well as Mars views volition endure available every bit options to Maps API developers.

The Musical Highways Of America

The Foo Fighters Sonic Highways is a fascinating documentary, directed yesteryear David Grohl, exploring the viii metropolis journeying undertaken yesteryear the band to tape their latest album. The band recorded 1 vocal inward each city, featuring local musicians from each of the visited cities.

The Foo Fighters Sonic Highways is far to a greater extent than than simply a documentary nearly the recording of the album. Each episode delves into the identity of the featured city, exploring how place influences music in addition to the musicians who alive there. In each metropolis Grohl interviews good known musicians in addition to discusses the local music scene in addition to its influence on their musical careers.

The Foo Fighters Sonic Highways Map provides an interesting introduction to the documentary. The map includes interesting musical landmarks inward each of the viii cities visited. It equally good includes a video excerpt from each episode inward the documentary featuring 1 of Grohl's interviews amongst a famous local musician.

You tin forcefulness out sentinel each episode of the documentary inward sum on the HBO website.

Map Your Xmas Lights

If you lot desire to lookout adult man your neighborhood for the houses amongst the best Xmas lights hence you lot should consult this Christmas themed map.The localized social network Nextdoor has assembled a Google Map of Christmas vacation related locations.

The Nextdoor Holiday Cheer Map shows where inward your neighborhood Nextdoor users convey mapped their favorite vacation spots. The map includes the locations of homes amongst lights too displays, Christmas attractions too events too Christmas tree lots. The map besides includes the locations of goodwill too other charity locations amongst Christmas campaigns.

Who Is Spying On Norway?

Norwegian paper Aftenposten has discovered testify of a massive organised surveillance functioning which appears to live on aimed at eavesdropping on telephone calls as well as tracking the movements of Norwegian authorities ministers as well as officials.

The paper has mapped the locations of simulated electrochemical cell base of operations stations, called IMSI catchers, which environs the Prime Minister's office, the Norwegian Parliament as well as the Ministry of Defence. IMSI catchers are used to rails the movements of electrochemical cell users as well as listening inwards on mobile communications. In an article, entitled Aftenposten Reveals Mobile Espionage, the paper has used the Leaflet.js mapping platform to visualize the locations of the IMSI catchers that the paper has uncovered inwards cardinal Oslo.

The extent of the network of IMSI catchers as well as the obvious expence of the equipment used has led Aftenposten to assume that the spying must live on the operate of a unusual intelligence agency, a large criminal gang or a large someone corporation involved inwards industrial espionage. 

Aftenposten Reveals Mobile Espionage on Google Translate

How The Uk Spies On Its Friends

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few week's agone High German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on how telecommunication companies convey been helping the UK's Government Communications Headquarters’ (GCHQ) to tap submarine cables.

The report, based on documents leaked past times Edward Snowden, revealed or in addition to then details nearly submarine cables currently tapped past times GCHQ. The Süddeutsche Zeitung investigation included Submarine Cable Taps, an interactive map that revealed which undersea cables were tapped past times GCHQ in addition to which cables were non mentioned inward the leaked GCHQ documents.

Who is Spying on Norway?.

The Maps Of The Week

Andrew Hill has created a map of the States rivers inwards which all the rivers are colored past times the administration of flow. The U.S. Rivers Colored past times the Direction they Flow map entirely shows the colored river locations on a dark background to create a visually hitting map of the United States.

The map uses information from Nelson Minar's Vector River Map, which inwards plough uses river menstruation information from NHDPlus. Andrew has besides used the same river information to create about other beautiful map. Rivers alongside Rainfall. This map shows U.S. rivers too rainfall inwards the terminal hour. The pelting information comes from a National Weather Service information feed.


The US Geological Survey (USGS) too Esri accept released a detailed global ecological province units map. The map allows y'all to click on whatever place inwards the basis to persuasion the bioclimate, landform, lithology, too province comprehend parameters at that location.

Select a place on the Explore the Ecological Tapestry of the World map too 4 inset maps unwrap the bioclimate, landforms, stone types too province comprehend that tin hold out constitute at the chosen location. The 4 ecological features are besides listed at the superlative of the primary map layer.


Are There Zombies inwards Your Neighbourhood? is a fun Street View application which allows y'all to persuasion a zombie walking downwards your street. Enter an address into the app too y'all tin spotter an animated zombie walking downwards your street using Google Maps Street View imagery.

As the zombie terrorizes your neighborhood y'all tin conform the viewpoint too fifty-fifty conform the size of the zombie. You tin besides select handgrip of the URL of your Street View animation which makes it slowly to portion your zombie Street View alongside friends.

I couldn't teach Are There Zombies inwards Your Neighbourhood? to seat Firefox or Internet Explorer but it worked fine inwards Chrome.

Mapping Fourth Dimension As Well As Space

Culture - Code - Cities - Cells is an interesting assay out of how cultural production inwards the modern solar daytime may hold out shaping our conceptions of fourth dimension together with space. The premise of the map's creator, Chris Henrick, is 'that mobile devices together with the spider web instantly mediate how many people sense their lives'.

Chris argues that inwards the digitally connected the world "the means nosotros define house is no longer express to local geographies". He besides claims that the means nosotros sense fourth dimension is shortening every bit applied scientific discipline progresses together with cultural ideas spread much faster than e'er before.

The map is hence an campaign to visualize how the resultant of these changing perceptions of fourth dimension together with infinite may touching on how nosotros stand upward for fourth dimension together with infinite cartographically. Chris argues that fourth dimension zones together with our purpose of solar fourth dimension every bit a mensuration arrangement may modify inwards the future. He besides suggests that our concepts of geographical boundaries may besides change.

On the map Chris has created province together with province boundaries using Voronoi cells generated from Flickr data. The cells are created from how Flickr users bring tagged the locations of photos (in a given house create Flickr users mean value it's administrative expanse Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 or B?). The map besides animates through 10 minutes of Twitter activeness to a greater extent than or less the world. If you lot hover over the map you lot tin dismiss persuasion a visualization of the selected location's fourth dimension zone.

Mapping Volume Extinction

The scientific magazine Nature is reporting that 41% of amphibian species, 26% of mammal species together with 13% of birds are facing the threat of extinction equally a straight effect of human activity. The globe is thus facing what is beingness called the 'Sixth Great Extinction' lawsuit together with the alone 1 to last caused past times a unmarried species.

The best map of this extinction lawsuit is in all probability from the What is Missing? Foundation. The Foundation's mission is to heighten awareness close the threat of creature extinction through science-based artworks. The What is Missing? website features an interactive map of the public featuring species which accept disappeared or are inwards danger of extinction.

The species highlighted on the map tin last sorted chronologically or past times category. If y'all click on the 'view inwards time' link the dots on the map automatically rearrange themselves to degree a timeline of species extinctions. You tin equally good filter the information shown on the map past times species past times selecting the 'sort past times subject' link.

Mapping Vancouver Holding Prices

The Vancouver Land Prices Heat Map visualizes the toll for Vancouver parcels of dry soil based on the 2014 BC assessment information from revenue enhancement reports. Land parcels on the map are colored to reverberate the toll per foursquare human foot of the property.

The map shows that many of Vancouver's close expensive properties are concentrated inward the Downtown, West End together with Fairview neighborhoods. The map likewise shows that dry soil prices tend to larn cheaper the farther you lot motility eastward inward the city. If you lot pick out a edifice lot on the map you lot tin sentiment the exact toll per foursquare human foot for the property.

Goodbye Google Earth, Hey 3D Scene Viewer

Any map developers nonetheless mourning the demise of the Google basis API powerfulness endure cheered a piddling past times the tidings that maps inwards ArcGIS Online tin straight off include a corking WebGL 3d globe view.

The ArcGIS 3d Scene Viewer allows ArcGIS Online users to add together an interactive 3d WebGL globe persuasion to their created maps. Now when you lot add together a layer to an ArcGIS Online map you lot tin persuasion it equally an interactive 2nd map too equally a 3d globe. For example, hither is a 2010 World Population layer which you lot tin explore equally a 3d globe.

The 3d WebGL globe persuasion includes the options for users to conform the surroundings settings. This allows users to conform the sunlight past times appointment too past times fourth dimension of day.

World Flying Paths On A 3D Globe

Yesterday ArGIS released 3d Scene Viewer. This novel alternative inwards ArcGIS allows developers to add together an interactive 3d WebGL globe sentiment to maps created amongst ArcGIS Online. You tin sentiment a demo of the 3dWebGL globe inwards activity inwards this 2010 World Population map.

You tin too accept the novel 3d Scene Viewer for a spin on this  Airflow Globe. This map visualizes worldwide flight-paths in addition to airports. The information for the map comes from OpenFlights.

When exploring the Airflow Globe yous direct keep a alternative of map base of operations layers. The screenshot higher upwards shows a satellite imagery view. To sentiment the bluish flight-paths to a greater extent than clearly yous tin live the default 'Light Gray Canvas' map layer instead.

Around & Closed To The Eiffel Tower

OSM Buildings is a JavaScript library for visualizing OpenStreetMaps edifice geometry on interactive maps. Thanks to a novel present map using Mapbox GL you lot tin laissez passer notice explore OSM Bulidings from a completely novel perspective.

One of many non bad features inwards Mapbox GL is the Mapbox GL rotate event. Using the rotate effect inwards Mapbox GL allows you lot to modify the orientation of a map. In the novel OSM Buildings GL Preview this agency you lot tin laissez passer notice rotate the map as well as stance the 3d buildings from all angles.


On this page you lot tin laissez passer notice stance images of the Tate Modern inwards London amongst the map orientated to the due south as well as to the north. When using the OSM Buildings GL Preview map you lot remove to right-click on the map to outset rotating the map as well as left-click to plow off rotation.

Escape From Alcatraz - The Map

The Washington Post has published an interesting concern human relationship of the escape of 3 detainees from Alcatraz inwards June 1962. No i knows if the 3 prisoners survived their escape endeavor or died patch trying to navigate the rigid currents of the San Francisco Bay,

The Washington Post's report, The Alcatraz Escapees Could convey Survived, is based on the run of Dutch researchers who convey been working on a model which simulates the crusade of particles together with detritus inwards bays. Based on this model the Dutch researchers convey concluded that the 3 Alcatraz prisoners may convey survived, exactly alone if they left the isle at the correct time.

The study includes 2 animated CartoDB maps, i showing the worst illustration scenario together with i showing the best illustration scenario. Both maps role tidal records to model the water-flow inwards the San Francisco Bay on the flush of the escape.

As the animation plays out on both maps y'all tin sentiment the probable rails of the escapees based on the dissimilar times during the flush when they could convey left Alcatraz. The animated boats on the map are colored to present the fourth dimension of escape. In the best illustration scenario, every bit long every bit the escapees left earlier 1 a.m. together with paddled north, they may convey made it to the due north side of the Golden Gate Bridge together with freedom.

The 2014 Maps Of The Year

It's that Maps of the Year fourth dimension again. Each Dec I await dorsum in addition to celebrate closed to of my favorite interactive maps of the year. This twelvemonth I've separate my annual round-up into 2 parts. Maps of the Year - Part One covers the months of Jan through June, alongside the final half-dozen months of the twelvemonth to come upward earlier the New Year.

The Maps of the Year doesn't look to operate on Internet Explorer. Try Chrome or Firefox instead!

This twelvemonth you lot tin filter my round-up past times map provider. This is actually handy for anyone who wants to detect peachy examples of maps past times specific mapping libraries. However, regrettably, it does hateful I've had to hold upward out out 2 or 3 maps which weren't made alongside i of the original mapping API's.

If you lot are a fan of peachy maps you lot should likewise check-out Cartonerd's Favorite Maps of the Year. As good equally highlighting closed to of his favorite maps Kenneth Field has picked out closed to of the mapping trends in addition to movements that he has spotted inward cartography over the final year. With his park honesty Kenneth is non afraid to highlight closed to of the mapping trends in addition to map reporting which he finds non equally useful or informative.

Some of the maps I've chosen would in all likelihood never come inward into a Cartonerd round-up. However, whether you lot dear them or abhor them, I promise you lot convey equally much fun exploring them equally I had inward compiling this listing of the 's Maps of the Year (Part One).

Your Human Google Maps Assistant

Diane Rabreau is your personal Google Maps search assistant. If you lot always come upwards across anything foreign on Google Maps or desire to know to a greater extent than virtually a for sure place - but inquire Diane. She volition see the place inward somebody together with written report dorsum on what she finds.

Diane Goes for You - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Living Search Engine for Unknown Destinations reports dorsum on the destinations which Diane has visited. For example, Gino wanted to know virtually these scratches on the H2O inward a Kingdom of Norway fjord.


Diane visited the fjord together with discovered that the scratches are genuinely tubes belongings nets for catching mussels. Like all Diane's answers that isn't all Gino got. Diane too takes pictures together with videos on her visits together with interviews local people and, if necessary, contacts experts to explicate what she finds.

So, if you lot always abide by something foreign on Google Map's satellite view, contact Diane together with she but powerfulness see the place together with written report dorsum on what she saw together with experienced.

The History Of Edinburgh Map

Edinburgh Library has created a wonderful map featuring historical stories, photos as well as maps near life inwards the Scottish capital.

Our Town Stories - Edinburgh is a swell showcase for but about of Edinburgh Library's collection of historical documents, photographs as well as maps. My favorite appear of Our Town is that y'all tin give the axe sentiment historical photos of the metropolis genuinely overlaid on your choice of historical maps of the city.

The map includes a handy time-line characteristic which allows y'all to search through the stories, photos as well as maps yesteryear date. Enter a appointment hit on the time-line as well as all the documents for that menses are shown on the map using categorized markers.


If y'all pick out a 'history map' marking y'all tin give the axe sentiment the map overlaid on meridian of the Google Map base of operations layer. You tin give the axe as well as thence pick out an 'image' marking to sentiment the historical icon as well as the place that it depicts.

If y'all pick out a 'story' marking a even out map opens. The even out map guides y'all through an historical upshot from Edinburgh's yesteryear highlighting all the relevant locations on a Google Map. For example, the 'Robert Louis Stevenson’s Edinburgh' even out recounts the author's life inwards Edinburgh, featuring menage unit of measurement portraits as well as historical photos, as well as a mapped conduct to but about of the Edinburgh locations of import inwards his life.