Maps Of The Week

There accept been a lot of maps released this calendar month commemorating the 25th anniversary of the autumn of the Berlin Wall. Among my favorites was this map from Castilian radio & tv set broadcaster RTVE. The map investigates the 138 victims who were killed trying to cross the Wall during the Cold War.

During the 28 years of the Wall's being 121 men, eight women too ix children were killed piece trying to cross into West Berlin. Caidos en el Muro uses the Google Maps API to plot the locations where each of the 138 victims were killed piece trying to cross the edge betwixt East too West Germany.


Google took a dissimilar approach to their commemorations of the reunification of Germany. 25 years later the autumn of the Berlin Wall Google interviewed twenty-five young Germans to uncovering out what life is similar inward the novel Germany. Google's #Deutschland25 features twenty-five interviews amongst individuals who accept grown-up inward Germany's Generation Mauerfall.

In the interviews manager too journalist Bettina Blümner questions twenty-five extraordinary immature Germans virtually their lives, hopes too dreams for the future. #Deutschland25 also includes a prominent Google Map which allows y'all to persuasion comments that other Germans accept left on the website too to larn out your ain comments virtually life too the of import social issues inward Deutschland today.


The Berliner Morgenpost has also created a novel map of Berlin which reveals a novel dividing line of piece of job inward the city. How the S-Bahn Ring Divides the City is a map of the German linguistic communication working capital missive of the alphabet inward which the neighborhoods accept been colored to exhibit whether most of the inhabitants were born inward or exterior Berlin.

The map reveals that inside the S-Bahn telephone inward every neighborhood, except Neu-Templhof, the bulk of the residents were born exterior Berlin. Outside the S-Bahn telephone many of the neighborhoods are dominated past times native Berliners.


DataDraw is a JavaScript library for the Google Maps API which tin live on used to visualize too animate large amounts of information on a Google Map using a canvass layer.

You tin persuasion the library inward activity on this impressive Wind Visualisation map. The map simulates air current patterns on a styled Google Map. If y'all conduct the 'animated style' pick y'all tin persuasion a beautiful animated mistaken visualization of air current patterns. You tin adapt the direction too describe of the air current past times dragging the carmine arrow inward the round down air current control.