The Maps Of The Week

The most beautiful maps of the past times calendar week come upward from this collection of route orientation maps. Crayon the Grids is a serial of maps where all the streets direct keep been colored based on their orientation. The results, I intend yous volition deal are absolutely stunning.

This serial of metropolis route orientation visualizations includes maps of San Francisco, Tokyo, New York, Chicago, London, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin together with Boston.


Flickr together with Panoramaio information has been used inwards the past times to practise some really beautiful oestrus maps visualizing the areas where people direct keep taken the most photographs. It is ever amazing to zoom inwards on these visualizations to encounter how maps of towns together with cities tin emerge only from geo-tagged photograph data.

There is forthwith a novel application which helps yous construct a map of a place yourself only past times using the tags inwards geo-tagged Flickr photos.  Mapr from Pimpampum.net allows yous to dynamically charge Flickr photograph information past times geographical tags. You tin hence practise your ain map of a place only past times loading to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than geolocated Flickr information (using the photos' tags).


If yous larn inwards your aught code into the Commute Map yous tin sentiment a mapped visualization of where people inwards your expanse commute to for work. You tin too purpose the map to compare the length together with fourth dimension of your daily journeying to run alongside the average commuter journeys of your neighbors.

The cherry circles on the map exhibit the marrow of each aught code area. If yous click on the cherry circles yous tin sentiment the pct of people who commute from your entered aught code expanse to the aught code expanse represented past times the circular marker. You tin too sentiment details close how far the commute journeying is, how long it is probable to direct keep together with how that compares to the average commute journeying length together with fourth dimension from your aught code area.


Recently a lay out of developers direct keep been adding well to Google Maps Street View. The combination of 360 grade panoramas alongside recorded well enables developers to assistance recreate both the well together with visual sense of locations around the world.

The Sound City Project has taken this concept 1 pace farther past times producing their ain interactive panoramas together with combining these with high character 3D well recordings. Using the application yous tin explore locations, such every bit Times Square inwards New York together with the Palace of Fine Arts inwards San Francisco, alongside custom Street View imagery acre listening to the sounds recorded at the same locations.

H5N1 styled Google Map allows yous to navigate betwixt the dissimilar locations featured inwards the project, including a lay out of locations inwards New York, San Francisco together with too inwards Sweden & Norway.