Maps Of The Week

The Seventeenth Century mathematician together with philosopher Eilhard Lubinus was commissioned inwards 1610 to hit a map of Pomerania. Lubinus.pl has made the inspired determination to role Lubinus' beautiful Pomerania map every bit the footing for a guided tour of the region.

Mapy Lubinusa uses the Google Maps API to plough Lubinus' Seventeenth Century map into an interactive guide for visitors to modern hateful solar daytime Pomerania. The edge of Lubinus' map is decorated amongst portraits of the 49 towns of Pomerania. Mapy Lubinusa has created nine guided tours, which you lot tin follow on the interactive version of the map, taking inwards all of the 49 towns featured inwards the map border.

You tin thus role Mapy Lubinusa non alone to explore the Lubinus Pomeranian map inwards exceptional simply every bit a modern tourist guide to the region. The map itself is augmented amongst an animated cloud layer together with a pose out of animated map features.


Heatmap News is a oestrus map showing the concentration of global intelligence stories indexed past times Google News. The map is a corking agency to hit upward one's request heed where major intelligence events are currently taking house around the world.

The map uses the Google Maps API Heatmap Layer to visualize electrical current intelligence hot-spots. For example, at the fourth dimension of writing, the map shows intelligence hot-spots for the Ukraine elections, for intelligence related to the assault on Parliament Hill inwards Ottawa together with intelligence surrounding the shooting of the captain of the South African football game team.

You tin likewise role Heatmap News to sentiment oestrus maps for whatsoever appointment (18/08/2014 onward).


Visualizing Emancipation is an interactive map exploring the emancipation of 4 1000000 slaves during the American Civil War. The map allows users to explore together with abide by patterns which emerged during the ending of southern slavery through the role of contemporary documents together with principal sources.

The map calls these patterns of emancipation 'event types' together with Visualizing Emancipation allows you lot to sentiment these patterns inwards whatsoever combination or on their own. The patterns include emancipation effect types leading from the devastation of slavery inwards law, through state of war machine activity together with through the impetus together with actions of enslaved people throughout the the United States of America South.

As good every bit exploring the map past times the patterns of emancipation you lot tin explore the mapped events using a time-line. The time-line allows you lot to filter the events displayed on the map past times whatsoever calendar month betwixt 1860 together with 1865.