The Maps Of The Week

The big interactive mapping intelligence this calendar week was the unloose of the Mapbox GL API. Mapbox GL has some really powerful options for dynamic styling as well as map interactivity on the client-side. I'm certain that inwards the close futurity nosotros volition meet lots of Maps of the Week built on elevation of Mapbox GL.

Mapbox has begun to add together some instance maps to the API documentation. Among the nigh interesting of these maps is this satellite sentiment map featuring video playback on a map.


While Mapbox GL may betoken to the futurity of interactive mapping CartoDB's Torque library is behind some of the impressive maps of the present. Torque powered maps conduct maintain regularly featured inwards Google Maps of the Week posts over the final 2 years. Of belatedly in that place has been also many Twitter information based maps created amongst Torque for my liking.

That's why I was pleased to meet 3 Torque powered maps this calendar week that used other, to a greater extent than interesting, data. Global Terrorism, 2013 was likely the nigh interesting of these 3 maps. This map uses Torque as well as CartoDB's Odyssey.js library to animate a year's worth of terrorist attacks some the world.

The other 2 maps were How INXS Conquered the World, a Torque powered Leaflet map which plots the touring schedule of the Australian band, as well as a serial of animated maps of New York's Citibike data.


Another map which impressed me this calendar week was from Taxi Stockholm. This heat-map of a year's worth of taxi trip information is combined amongst Google's Places library to furnish an interesting insight into the city's hot-spots.

Taxi Trails has taken the information from all of Stockholm's GPS enabled cabs as well as used the Google Maps API to practise a heat-map of taxi destinations inwards the Swedish capital. Taxi Stockholm believe that this heat-map is non alone a beautiful information visualization only it tin also travel useful for tourists visiting the city.

If y'all are visiting Stockholm for the origin fourth dimension y'all tin role the map to notice pop hot-spots inwards the city. For example, if y'all are looking for somewhere to become on a Sabbatum night, y'all tin refine the map to exhibit the nigh pop destinations for Stockholm cabs inwards the eve on a Sabbatum nighttime as well as and hence role the 'Explore this area' selection to notice bars as well as restaurants nearby.