The Maps Of The Week

My favorite map this calendar week was the Windyty Wind Forecast map. Windyty uses NOAA air current information to create a global animated air current map.

Watching the animated air current patterns on Windity tin dismiss move pretty hypnotic, specially if you lot opened upwardly up Noise Machine's Wind Noise Generator in some other browser tab.  If you lot require to relax too unwind this sun too thence you lot could create worse than sit down too dorsum too lookout adult man the Windty map piece listening to the Wind Noise Generator.


If you've e'er wondered how Mario too Luigi create create to navigate thence effortlessly around the Mushroom Kingdom too Dinosaur Land too thence you lot require to cheque out this Super Mario map from Duncan Graham. This interactive map re-imagines the public equally an 8-bit map inward the mode of Nintendo's classic game, consummate amongst golden coins too mushrooms.

Accompanying the map is a cracking 'how-to' guide on how the map was created with Mapbox Studio. It's worth reading the article if you lot desire to acquire near importing province or H2O root files into Mapbox Studio, how to add together custom elements to your map too how to gild layers.


This yr at that topographic point has been a expose of actually cracking mapped visualizations of New York taxi data. This latest map visualizes taxi traffic from JFK too LGA airports during the 2013 vacation flavor (Nov 15th to Dec 31st).

The NYC Taxi Holiday Visualization animates taxi journeys from New York's airports over the course of teaching of a calendar month too half. As the animation plays you lot tin dismiss thought the animated tracks of thousands of private cab journeys taken from JFK too LGA airports to all parts of the city.


The Solar Eclipse Finder is an Esri map that displays the path of by too futurity solar eclipses for whatsoever place on Earth.

The tool couldn't move simpler to use. Just click on the map too by solar eclipses at the selected place are shown on the map inward greenish too futurity eclipse are shown inward blue. If you lot mouse-over the path of a solar eclipse you lot tin dismiss thought details inward the map side-bar.

The details on each eclipse include the date, fourth dimension too the duration of the solar eclipse. The Solar Eclipse Finder includes the paths of 905 solar eclipses from 1601 to 2200.