Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Funniest Maps Of The Yr (2014)


Springfield is a gloriously detailed map of the most famous of town inward America. From the world's kickoff always Kwik-E-Mart to Springfield Elementary School, this Spingfield map has it all. You tin dismiss fifty-fifty role the map to aspect upwards the address of private families, for representative the Simpsons household unit of measurement at 742 Evergreen Terrace.

Even though this is undoubtedly the best Simpsons map always - I notwithstanding desire more. Where is the Springfield Street View (I bet fifty-fifty Shelbyville has Street View yesteryear now)? I likewise desire driving directions. I require to know the quickest means to the Kwik-E-Mart in addition to to the Springfield Nuclear Power  Plant (preferably amongst real-time traffic conditions).

Another matter missing from the map is transit directions. It would live handy to know which jitney I require to grab to acquire to Moe's Tavern. However, nit-picking aside, this is notwithstanding the best Springfield map I've always seen. It's quite peradventure the best map ever.


Alternate history novels cause got been real pop over the lastly few years. So for certain at that spot must live a marketplace for alternate history maps. Newcastle Brown Ale patently retrieve so.

Last year, for Independence Day, the brewer released an alternate history map of the United States. If We Won is a vivid map of the USA showing how the province mightiness cause got looked if the American War of Independence had been won yesteryear Great Britain.

Enter whatever town or urban core into the map in addition to y'all tin dismiss disclose what the location would live named if the Americans hadn't been so unhappy almost paying their taxes. For representative El Paso becomes Ye Olde Paso, Charlotte becomes North Charlottesvilleford in addition to San Francisco becomes Wolverhampton.


One of the earliest pop uses of the Google Maps API was Gawker Stalker. The forthwith defunct Gawker Stalker allowed y'all to runway the movements of your favorite celebrities thank y'all to the detailed stalking carried out yesteryear Gawker in addition to their readers.

If at that spot is i matter to a greater extent than pop than celebrities on the cyberspace so that must live pictures of cats. It is thus surprising that nosotros cause got had to hold back 7 years for someone to finally acquire or so to releasing I Know Where Your Cat Lives.

I Know Where Your Cat Lives displays pictures of cats on a Google Map. The pictures of the cats come upwards from pop photograph sharing websites in addition to the locations are based on the information hidden inward truthful cat photograph metadata.  I'm guessing that the map is partly intended equally a alarm almost sharing your personal information online (or maybe its merely a alarm almost sharing your cat's personal information online).


MTA.me Conductor has turned Massimo Vignelli's 1972 New York metro map into a real-time string instrument. The map visualizes inward real-time trains moving on the MTA metro network in addition to plays a depository fiscal establishment complaint every fourth dimension a metro educate crosses the runway of some other train.

Every infinitesimal the application checks for novel trains launched from their halt stations. The trains are so animated along the metro occupation amongst their speed gear upwards yesteryear the MTA schedule. When i educate crosses the runway of some other educate a unmarried depository fiscal establishment complaint is played.

Fire-up the map in addition to y'all tin dismiss merely sit down dorsum in addition to head to a New York metro symphony existence composed in addition to played inward real-time. You tin dismiss fifty-fifty bring together inward the composition yesteryear plucking the strings of the trains of the New York subway.


If you've always wondered how Mario in addition to Luigi contend to navigate so effortlessly or so the Mushroom Kingdom in addition to Dinosaur Land so y'all require to depository fiscal establishment correspond out this Super Mario map from Duncan Graham. This interactive map reimagines the basis equally an 8-bit map inward the means of Nintendo's classic game, consummate amongst golden coins in addition to mushrooms.

Accompanying the map is a neat 'how-to' guide on how the map was created with Mapbox Studio. It's worth reading the article if y'all desire to larn almost importing terra firma or H2O rootage files into Mapbox Studio, how to add together custom elements to your map in addition to how to social club layers.


Apparently people defecating on the streets is a matter inward San Francisco. At to the lowest degree it is a big plenty occupation for Jennifer Wong to retrieve it warrants its ain interactive map. Obviously this seems to live a serious effect for San Francisco but at that spot is an chemical cistron of sense of humor inward the presentation of this map.

Jennifer has used San Francisco Department of Public Works information of sidewalk cleanings for 'human waste matter or urine' to create the (Human) Wasteland map. The map makes role of the Google Maps Styled Maps characteristic to furnish a context-appropriate colored base of operations map. The same 'appropriate' colors are used inward the oestrus map layer. If y'all desire y'all tin dismiss filter the crap on the map yesteryear calendar month in addition to search the map yesteryear address.


I actually practice cause got the mental historic menses of a v twelvemonth old. There is no other excuse for the enjoyment I got from creating this Talking Rude Map.

The map animates through some of the to a greater extent than NSFW place-names or so the basis in addition to reads the names out loud. I don't retrieve that this map volition function amongst whatever other browser but Chrome. If y'all don't role Chrome don't blame me if y'all don't acquire yesteryear the F#cking kickoff page.


It alone takes i missive of the alphabet to expire viral. Google Naps became a real pop map for a brief menses inward 2014. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 map of expert places to accept xl winks could on it ain test relatively pop but my gauge is that its brief viral status sprang from its punning name.

I suspect that correct forthwith map developers or so the basis are working on other puns on the words 'Google Maps'. This twelvemonth I await to live reviewing a map of rugs or so the basis (Google Mats),  a map of drinking fountains (Google Taps) in addition to a map of world rest-rooms (I acquire out that i to your imagination).

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