Maps Of The Week

My favorite map of the past times calendar week was this tool to query OpenStreetMap chemical component tags to exhibit province usage inwards Germany.

Flächennutzungstool (Land Use Tool) shows how province is used based on OpenStreetMap data. The map includes iii drawing tools (circular, rectangular in addition to polygon) which allows yous to direct an expanse on a map of FRG to encounter the proportion of dissimilar province usage.

After yous direct an expanse on the map, features are automatically colored past times province use. The colors dot residential, commercial in addition to dark-green infinite province usage inwards the expanse selected. When yous direct an expanse on the map yous tin post away also stance a graph inwards the map sidebar to exhibit the proportion of province usage for each classification inwards the selected area.


One of the most shared maps on this calendar week was this map of surveillance cameras around London's congestion accuse border. On Thursday, 30th Oct 2014 James Bridle laid upward out to walk the perimeter of the London Congestion Charge Zone.

While on the walk James planned to direct maintain photos of all the surveillance cameras decorating the route. Unfortunately James was non able to consummate a total circuit of the Congestion Charge Zone. During his walk he was placed nether citizen arrest past times safety guards from the Grosvenor House Hotel in addition to and hence later questioned past times the police push clitoris for the suspicious demeanour of carrying a photographic television set camera inwards London.

James did manage to consummate roughly one-half of his planned road in addition to was able to direct maintain 427 photos of the surveillance cameras. You tin post away stance the location in addition to photos of all the surveillance cameras that James documented on this Paranoid Cartography map. The map includes an animated heat-map layer which is drawn on the map chronologically. While the heat-map layer is beingness drawn a slide-show of all James' photos also plays out on the map.

You tin post away read to a greater extent than well-nigh the walk in addition to the projection on the
Another pop map this calendar week was Google's 36 Hours paid advertising characteristic inwards the The New York Times. The primary role of this advertisement is to back upward the new Signed-in Maps feature inwards the Google Maps API.

36 Hours provides a seat out of interesting weekend guides to cities around the world. Select a metropolis on the map in addition to 36 Hours volition direct maintain yous through a planned weekend tour of the city, alongside suggestions for places where yous tin post away eat, drinkable in addition to visit. Each of the locations featured inwards the metropolis weekend guides include the Signed-in Maps feature. Therefore if yous are signed-in to a Google job organisation human relationship spell using 36 Hours yous tin post away click on the 'Save to Google Maps' pick to add together the location to your starred locations on the novel expect Google Maps.

The map introduction includes an impressive WebGL globe (designed to resemble the zoomed out expect of Google Maps). When yous click on a marking on the globe video clips render a subtle in addition to clever transition betwixt the WebGL globe in addition to a map created using the Google Maps API.