Torque 2014

It has been some other successful twelvemonth for CartoDB's temporal mapping Torque library. Even every bit 2014 begins to air current downwards the Torque maps nonetheless choke along coming.

Yesterday AirAsia flying QZ8501 vanished from radar screens over the Java Sea. This AirAsia Republic of Indonesia flying QZ8501 map plots the flying path of the airplane from Surabaya to Singapore. The map uses the Torque library to animate the flying of the airplane from Surabaya to its concluding known position, when it lost contact alongside air traffic command at 06.24 local time.


The Torque library has besides been used yesteryear the to-do listing app Wunderlist for their annual productivity report. The World Productivity List uses the library to visualize where together with how the application is used throughout the earth over the bird of i day.

Torque is oftentimes used to present a lot of flashing information on a earth map. The Wunderlist maps, similar many of these maps, hardly reveals whatsoever interesting geographical patterns inwards the underlying data. However I gauge the map succeeds inwards its principal business of demonstrating that Wunderlist has lots of users roughly the world.