Maps Of The Fortnight

It has been a placidity duo of weeks and, every mo at that topographic point was no Maps of the Week post service end week, this calendar week nosotros accept a Maps of the Fortnight post.

Helsinki Ennen is a collection of beautiful historical maps too photographs of the Finnish capital. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 time-line runs along the bottom of the map. Select a decade from the time-line too you lot tin forcefulness out thought vintage photographs of Helsinki from that decade overlaid on a map dating from the chosen era.

Many of the photographs are likewise displayed side-by-side alongside the same thought every mo it is seen today, using Google Maps Street View. This allows you lot to run into how the metropolis has changed over the course of written report of the Twentieth Century.


This year Chris Whong created an impressive interactive map from New York Taxi Data. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 set out of other developers accept used the same data, collated past times Chris, to exercise their ain interactive maps.

The latest map of New York taxi journeys is NYC Taxi Map 2013. This 1 is an impressive example of using Google Maps with Google Cloud Dataflow. Using Cloud Dataflow the map geo-fences the taxi information past times New York neighborhoods. The final result is that you lot tin forcefulness out click on an expanse on the map to notice out the distribution of drop-off locations, the average fare, average tip percent too average set out of passengers of trips that started inwards each New York neighborhood.  


Schipol Go International is a map of all international destinations that you lot tin forcefulness out wing to from Amsterdam's Schipol airport.

The role of the Google Maps API styled map feature too custom information windows gives the map a vibrant design. The add-on of background audio to the map gets a piddling annoying exactly you lot tin forcefulness out plough the audio off. The map likewise include audio effects for each map interaction, which would locomote far less annoying on their own, too I estimate could fifty-fifty assist navigation of the map.

If you lot choose a goal on the map you lot tin forcefulness out larn a few facts virtually the selected location, such every mo the flying time, local fourth dimension too the set out of days a calendar week flights acquire out Schipol for the destination.