'S Tiptop Stories Of 2014

This calendar week I've been spending a chip of fourth dimension going through the dorsum catalog of hunting out my Best Maps of 2014. I thought it mightiness hold upward interesting to besides bring a quick await at the almost pop stories on inward 2014.

1. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Game of Thrones Mapped

This yr solely ane dependent plain could musical rhythm out Pokemon together with that was Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Game of Thrones. The huge popularity of George Martin's serial of fantasy novels together with the HBO television receiver serial seems to hold upward reflected inward the popularity for Westeros maps. This piddling round-up of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Game of Thrones related maps got the almost traffic on inward 2014.

2. The Google Maps Pokemon Challenge

Google Map's annual Apr Fool joke never fails inward driving huge traffic to . This yr was no different. The fact that Google this yr made their Apr Fool's map into a fun challenge likely ensured that this seemed to hold upward Google's almost pop Apr Fool's joke yet.

3. Where the World Runs

Strava, Runkeeper together with Nike all created closed to non bad maps this year. This piddling round-up of jogging & cycling heat-maps seemed to evidence pop amongst readers. It besides contained closed to non bad looking maps.

4. The Slow Death of the Google Maps API

Over the in conclusion duet of years I've cash inward one's chips increasingly frustrated past times the real boring stride of evolution of the Google Maps API. In Jan I finally vented my spleen. It seems I'm non the solely ane getting frustrated at the Google Maps API Development team, at to the lowest degree judging past times the traffic that this post service generated.

5. Building the World Cup on Street View

Wow! One of my ain maps made it to the peak 5. I'm non actually certain why. This post service looked at how you lot tin hand the axe hack Google's historic Street View imagery. I approximate it was the purpose of the World Cup inward the championship that generated almost of the traffic.

Unfortunately it looks similar my hack has run across closed to gremlins together with closed to of the historic Street Views seem to bring gone missing (my hack depends on using the PanoID for each Street View - which is ever unsafe because Google oftentimes modify the ID's).

6. The London Bike Video Map

Cylodeo's thought of providing cycling directions amongst video previews is pretty inspired. The launch of novel coverage inward London this yr seemed to attract the attending of readers.

7. The 2014 Tour de French Republic Live Tracking

Real-time maps ever seem to hold upward pop on . It looks similar pairing a real-time map amongst the World's greatest bike race is a guaranteed winner.

I'm stopping there! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 listing of 7 seems a chip arbitrary (a listicle of 10 would likely instruct to a greater extent than traffic) yet these 7 posts got far to a greater extent than traffic than whatsoever other post service on this year. The eight, ix together with 10 posts on my traffic listing got less than 50% of The 2014 Tour de French Republic Live Tracking post. So this seems similar the natural cutting-off point.

I'm non certain I tin hand the axe line whatsoever conclusions from the almost pop stories on . Although it does seem that sports related maps (& cycling inward particular) create generate a lot of traffic.