Making Feel Of Ferguson Tweets

I've already stated my disinterest inwards Twitter's map, News of  Ferguson Spreads Across Twitter, which genuinely signifies cipher except that a lot of people some the globe accept Tweeted close the province of affairs inwards Ferguson. Mapbox has instantly released a map using Twitter information from Tweets close Ferguson which genuinely tries to brand feel of some of the social media action some the events unfolding inwards the Missouri town.

The opening map sentiment inwards  Ferguson, MO, Tweets shows how visitors accept converged on the town. The lines on the map demo where people Tweeting inwards Ferguson accept traveled from. Mapbox compared geotagged Tweets from Ferguson amongst previous Tweets from the same people to decide which Tweets were made past times locals together with which were made past times visitors to the town.

This outset map sentiment shows an incredible influx into the town from across the world. Presumably a large proportion of these visitors are journalists together with people working for word organisations.

The map includes 3 other views; Local Tweets, Visitor Tweets together with All Tweets. Locals are determined past times looking at whether the Twitter users had most lately tweeted inside 7 miles of Ferguson.  The 'All Tweets' sentiment shows the local Tweets inwards light-green together with the visitor Tweets inwards purple. This sentiment shows that the visitors to Ferguson are mainly clustered some distinct locations, suggesting that reporters of a plume presumably tend to flock together.

You tin read to a greater extent than close the map together with this clustering of local together with visitor Tweets on the Mapbox blog.

Tour De France Winners

Tour de France: Where Have the Winners Come From? is an interactive map showing the abode countries of all the winners of the Tour de France. Using the map yous tin go thought the geographical spread of all the Tour winners since 1903.

I establish the results a niggling surprising. Having grown-up during the stream when Lance Armstong seemed to dominate the race well-nigh every twelvemonth (his wins are manifestly immediately expunged from the records) I was expecting the race winners to survive a fleck to a greater extent than global. However apart from the American Greg LeMond (winner 1986) all the winners of the race bring been born inwards Europe.

French Republic dominates the map, although Kingdom of Belgium seems to create a disproportionate pose out of swell cyclists. Another surprise to me was that the swell cycling friendly province of the Netherlands has alone produced ii winners of the Tour de France.

The map itself was created amongst the underused jVectorMap library.

The G Theft Machine Satellite Map

I've been spending a lot of my fourth dimension this calendar week looking for base of operations map tile layers. After finding this Guild Wars ii map tiles API I seem to conduct keep taken a serious detour inwards my holler for for a skilful map tile layer for my electrical flow project. Instead I conduct keep been sidetracked into hunting out always to a greater extent than obscure map tile layers from estimator game worlds.

This Interactive GTA V Glitch map has created a Google Map of Los Santos. The map contains locations where yous tin plow over the axe uncovering glitches inwards the game in addition to fifty-fifty includes videos of how to replicate the glitches. What actually impresses me nonetheless is that the map contains 3 sets of base of operations map tiles in addition to yous tin plow over the axe switch betwixt 'road' in addition to 'atlas' views in addition to fifty-fifty a satellite persuasion of Los Santos.

At the other halt of the estimator gaming Blue Planet is the platform game Metroid. Metroid Maps has created Google Maps for Metroid I, Metroid II, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion in addition to Metroid Zero Mission. There isn't actually much else to add together virtually these uncomplicated maps, although they create conduct keep dynamic map links hence yous could portion a link to a desired place on 1 of the maps if yous wanted.

If yous wish to explore other game Blue Planet base of operations map tiles in addition to hence conduct keep a search through the games tag on Google .

The Basis Loving Cup Inward Maps

The 2014 World Cup looks educate to piece of occupation out the nearly mapped football game tournament inwards history. The tournament itself volition laid out on Th inwards Brasil only we're having an early on kick-off hither at Google amongst a solar daytime dedicated to World Cup maps.

Esri accept got the ball rolling yesteryear releasing no less than half dozen World Cup related Story Maps, exploring World Cup history, the 2014 teams too players too the 2014 World Cup stadiums inwards Brasil. Esri's 2014 World Cup Maps includes World Cup Venues, World Cup Dashboard, World Cup History, Belo Horizonte Restaurants, Golden Greats too Team USA Roster.

The Golden Greats map is 1 of the to a greater extent than interesting maps inwards this piffling collection of Story Maps. The map shows the best players inwards previous World Cups. You tin direct to stance the Golden Ball (the histrion voted the best histrion inwards the tournament), the Golden Boot (the highest scorer) too the Golden Glove (the histrion voted the best goalkeeper) inwards all the previous World Cups.

The map suggests that if you lot desire to win a histrion honor at the World Cup therefore you lot request to play for a South American or European team.

The World Cup History map lets you lot browse through the results of every World Cup since 1930. Select a tournament from the map sidebar too you lot tin therefore click on a participating province on the map to stance all the results for that province inwards the selected tournament.

The World Cup Venues map is an interesting tour of the Brazilian stadiums hosting the 2014 World Cup matches. Unfortunately this map is allow downward a fighting yesteryear Esri's satellite stance imagery which hasn't quite kept upwards amongst the footstep of evolution for the World Cup. Most of the satellite views used hither exclusively demo the stadiums at diverse stages during their construction.

Animated Estrus Mapping

Thanks to CartoDB's Torque library nosotros are instantly used to seeing markers beingness animated on a map to stand upward for changes inwards information over time. By adding as well as removing markers according to a fourth dimension postage stamp the Torque library tin sack last used to visualize relative intensity over time, such equally inwards this Twitter map showing, News of  Ferguson on Twitter,

By non removing markers in 1 lawsuit they induce got been added to the map the Torque library tin sack likewise last used to exhibit the accumulation of information over time, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 skilful event of this is this animated map of 72 hours of seismic action inwards Iceland, Bárðarbunga - Last 72h inwards 10 Seconds. This map does non take away the markers in 1 lawsuit they induce got been added to the map as well as therefore that a pic of where the nearly seismic action has occurred emerges equally the animation plays.

Real-estate information analysts Illustreets induce got taken even as well as therefore around other approach to mapping the relative intensity of geographical information over time. Their novel map, London House Prices: Evolution Over xiii Years, visualizes the cost of holding inwards London over xiii years yesteryear providing an animated oestrus map of holding prices inwards London boroughs. As the animation plays the colors of each of the London boroughs changes to exhibit the development of average household prices inwards each borough over the xiii years.

This Illustreets map likewise superimposes an animated delineate of piece of job nautical chart over the map, which plays inwards conjunction amongst the animated oestrus map. You tin sack select whatever of the London boroughs from a drop-down card to persuasion an animated delineate of piece of job nautical chart comparison the average household toll inwards the borough over the xiii years compared to the average London household price.

Test Your Local Knowledge

In recent years the UK's Office for National Statistics has been really creative inwards its role of interactive maps to assistance visualize census as well as other authorities data. Their novel online map game is proving to survive the most pop yet.

How Well Do You Now Your Area? is an online quiz which tests your cognition of your local area, using information from the 2011 UK census. Enter a postcode into the quiz as well as a Google Map volition highlight your local electoral ward area. You are hence asked 7 questions nearly the surface area as well as its population to essay your local knowledge.

The questions delineate of piece of occupation organisation information from the UK census, such every bit the median historic catamenia of the local population as well as the pct of Christians. The quiz is a neat means to acquire nearly the the demographics of your local area. For example, I learned that an astonishing 56% of households inwards my neighbourhood don't ain a car.

Bike Routing Inwards Sweden

Trafiken.nu is a good idea out novel bicycle road planning map for western Sweden. Enter a starting hollo for in addition to goal into the map in addition to Trafiken volition furnish a suggested bicycle road in addition to an peak nautical chart of the route.

The map includes the locations of bicycle sharing stations alongside alive bicycle availability data, bicycle stands, bicycle shops in addition to pumping stations. The routing of the bicycle directions is built upon the Leaflet Routing Machine, an opened upward origin routing plug-in for the Leaflet mapping library. The plug-in itself includes geocoding support, the editing of start, waypoints in addition to terminate points in addition to the displaying of routes.

I've Constitute Your Town On Google Maps

In a vain drive to larn people to attempt in addition to part my NSFW map on social media I've added a picayune link to the map which creates a URL for the electrical current map view. The map is a collection of some of the rudest place-names to a greater extent than or less the world.

You tin hand the sack right away catch the URL address for a map thought in addition to insult your friends past times sharing the link on social media sites such equally Twitter. For representative y'all could insult your friends past times sending them a link to Bald Knob on the map, similar this:

"I've constitute your town on Google Maps - http://goo.gl/7IHyNr"

I'm certain y'all tin hand the sack come upward up alongside fifty-fifty improve insults. To link to a item map thought simply click on the 'Get Link' pick in addition to cutting & glue the address from your browser's URL address bar.

I've too renamed the map Your Town, mainly to render a picayune hint nigh i agency the map could hold out used to insult other people.

The Endonym Map

The Endonym Map is a great lilliputian Leaflet powered map which labels the countries of the Blue Planet inward their official or national languages.

The map includes iv informative map insets inward each corner of the map. These inset maps highlight the countries of the Blue Planet grouped past times the iv nearly mutual languages, English, French, Standard Arabic in addition to Spanish.

The map itself was manifestly designed equally a static map in addition to y'all tin transportation away buy a poster of the printed map. The interactive version of the map uses the Leaflet.Zoomify JavaScript library, which tin transportation away practise base of operations map tiles for the Leaflet mapping platform from Zoomify images.

If Nosotros Were Dutch

This calendar week I actually liked the Newcastle Brown map If We Won. The map presents an alternate history of the USA, showing what towns too cities mightiness live on called straightaway if the USA hadn't won the War of Independence.

This forenoon I decided to convey a larn at creating a similar map. The consequence is New Amsterdam, a petty map of what New York mightiness await similar today if the Dutch were all the same inward charge. The map isn't close every bit expert every bit the Newcastle Brown map merely cracking for a couplet of hours work.

For the sake of speed I decided non to exercise my ain base of operations map tiles. Instead I used Google Maps Styled Maps to hand the map a slight vintage await too to take the Google Maps labels. I too thus used the Map Label library to add together my ain Dutch names to the map. I also added a few map markers to add together windmills, mountains too a shipping to the map.

The map exclusively took a couplet of hours thus it looks a chip ragged. It could live on improved past times changing the fashion of the map labels to brand them a chip to a greater extent than pronounced - similar on the If We Won map. The map marking icons also postulate a petty move on the transparency. If I had the fourth dimension the biggest improvement would live on to exercise too add together my ain vintage looking base of operations map tiles (but that's never going to happen).

A Serendipitous Stereographic Projection

Serendipity uses information from Spotify to present y'all the locations of 2 Spotify users who are listening to the same rails at the same time. The map shows the locations of 2 users who accept started listening to the same vocal on Spotify inside a 10th of a mo of each other, inwards dissimilar towns, cities, states, nations or timezones.

The affair I most similar well-nigh this application is the role of a stereographic projection. The Web Mercator projection seems to dominion the roost inwards online mapping these days, in addition to thus it is squeamish to run into a dissimilar map projection drib dead a rare outing.

When the map progresses from i paired serendipitous vocal to the adjacent duad of users it animates to a novel map view, which is detail interesting to lookout adult man amongst this stereographic projection. You too drib dead a quick boom of each novel vocal featured equally the map animates closed to the world.

The map was created amongst the assistance of D3.js. If y'all desire to role a stereographic projection inwards your ain maps y'all tin depository fiscal establishment jibe out the D3.js code for this map projection in addition to a demo stereographic projection map here.

Weather On The Route

If you lot are planning a leisurely hike or a prissy road-trip together with then you lot in all likelihood desire to know what the weather condition volition live on like. WeatherTrip is a rattling slowly to operate map which tin present you lot what weather condition conditions to await along your planned route.

Just larn inward your starting indicate together with finish into the application together with a route volition straightaway live on shown on a Google Map amongst a expose of weather condition symbols showing you lot the electrical current weather condition conditions along your planned walk or drive.

If you lot aren't setting off correct at nowadays together with then you lot tin operate a appointment picker to choose the appointment of your planned trip. Pick a novel appointment together with the weather condition symbols automatically update to display the weather condition on your planned trip date.


The Dark Sky: Weather Along a Traffic Route is about other map which tin present you lot the weather condition along your planned route. The app lets users asking directions together with and then displays the route on a Google Map.

The start 60-minutes of your requested route volition include a pelting forecast from Dark Sky, showing where (and how hard) you’ll larn rained on if you lot left correct now. One characteristic that is missing is the mightiness to depository fiscal establishment friction match the weather condition for a specific time. However the map could withal live on useful if you lot are heading out for a walk together with you lot desire to know if it is going to pelting whatsoever fourth dimension shortly along your planned route.

Mapping Auto Sharing Routes Inwards Milan

Density Design accept created a break of visualizations of 1 week's worth of information from the automobile sharing service Enjoy inwards Milan. The visualizations inwards Seven Days of Car Sharing include about interesting mapped views of the data.

One of the nearly interesting maps is an animated Voronoi map. This map shows areas surrounding private cars which incorporate all the points on the map closer to that automobile than to whatsoever other. The Voronoi map updates for every distich of minutes throughout the week's worth of data. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 clear pattern emerges during the animation every bit the cars deed from the centre of the metropolis during the twenty-four hr catamenia to the periphery of the metropolis at night.

This pattern likewise emerges inwards a video of an animated map of the cars' tracks. This map shows users traveling inwards the centre of the metropolis during the twenty-four hr catamenia in addition to and then later the destination of the working twenty-four hr catamenia to a greater extent than journeys out to the suburbs surrounding the metropolis center.

Via: Visual Loop

If Van Gogh Made Maps

Here's roughly other footling Mapbox GL created map. The Van Gogh Map uses a few images from Van Gogh paintings every bit textures for the map characteristic types.

Feature types on this map, such every bit H2O as well as unlike types of province cover, are made upwards of map tiles created alongside textures taken from Van Gogh paintings. The lawsuit is a map agency which yous in all likelihood wouldn't desire to purpose real oft exactly the map does serve every bit a bully demo of how slowly it is to practise interesting map styles alongside Mapbox GL.

This is the minute Mapbox GL map I've seen this week. The first, Birthplaces of Liverpool Football Club Players, is a handy footling demo map showing how to add together markers alongside text labels inwards Mapbox GL.

The Incredible Truthful Cat Stalking Map

One of the earliest pop uses of the Google Maps API was Gawker Stalker. The straightaway defunct Gawker Stalker allowed y'all to rail the movements of your favorite celebrities thank y'all to the detailed stalking carried out yesteryear Gawker together with their readers.

If at that topographic point is 1 affair to a greater extent than pop than celebrities on the cyberspace together with so that is pictures of cats. It is so surprising that nosotros convey had to await vii years for someone to in conclusion become some to releasing I Know Where Your Cat Lives.

I Know Where Your Cat Lives displays pictures of cats on a Google Map. The pictures of the cats come upward from pop photograph sharing websites together with the locations are based on the information hidden inward truthful cat photograph metadata.  I'm guessing that the map is partly intended equally a alert nigh sharing your personal information online (or perchance its merely a alert nigh sharing your cat's personal information online).

Navigating The Roman Empire

The cursus publicus (the world way) was created past times the Roman Emperor Augustus to facilitate transportation in addition to communications betwixt Rome in addition to the provinces of the Roman Empire. It was inwards lawsuit the courier in addition to transportation service of the Roman Empire, consisting of relay points at forts in addition to stations along the major route systems of the Roman world.

The Tabula Peutingeriana is a route map of the cursus publicus. It shows the route network of the Roman Empire, stationes in addition to the distances betwixt them. The map is geographically distorted in addition to presents the roads betwixt settlements equally roughly parallel lines. In about ways the map is similar to many modern subway scheme maps which forgo geographical accuracy inwards favor of to a greater extent than clearly showing how to larn from 1 station to another.


Omnes Viae: Itinerarium Romanum is an interactive Roman route planner based on the Tabula Peutingeriana route map in addition to the distances shown betwixt towns in addition to stationes.

Using this Google Map you lot tin last inwards ii locations in addition to discovery the the shortest route betwixt them based on the distance figures of the Peutingeriana.  Routes generated past times Omnes Viae listing the towns in addition to cites in addition to likewise the river crossings on your trip inwards the map sidebar in addition to display the actual route on the Google Map.


ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World is about other Roman Empire route planner which generates routes in addition to provides data virtually the fourth dimension cost in addition to fiscal expense associated alongside unlike modes of transport.

The model allows for xiv unlike modes of route locomote (including ox cart, fully loaded mule, human foot traveler in addition to dry soil forces on the march) in addition to likewise allows for the flavour of travel. Using the route planner you lot tin last inwards ii locations, the flavour of locomote in addition to the fashion of transport. ORBIS volition in addition to therefore render a route, the probable cost inwards denarii in addition to the fourth dimension duration of the journey.

ORBIS likewise allows you lot to display the results of a requested route territorially equally an isochronal or isophoretric map or distort the geographic representation of the paths in addition to sites using a dynamic distance cartogram.

The Worst Map Of The Week

I don't unremarkably criticize maps on this blog. Google is mainly concerned amongst interesting on-line maps too maps which are experimenting amongst novel or master copy visualization techniques. This agency I tend non to concentrate on the cartographic failings of the maps featured on Google .

Yesterday's Van Gogh map postal service is a proficient illustration of this. This map is never going to win whatever awards for excellence inward cartography simply the Van Gogh map is an interesting experiment inward using the novel Mapbox GL mapping platform. It could thus locomote real useful every bit a present map for whatever developers who are starting to explore Mapbox's novel map library - so it gets no criticisms from me.

However cartographic critics create play an invaluable purpose inward sharing too encouraging proficient cartographic practice. Kenneth Field's Gaza Everywhere map is a bully illustration of how Cartonerd's observations tin truly Pb to a map developer creating a ameliorate map.

I am going to brand an exception today however, inward my 'no criticism' policy, for a map yesteryear The Daily Telegraph which has truly annoyed me. I'll allow Cartonerd criticize the cartography if he wants - I desire to concentrate on the map's horrible social prejudices.

The Daily Telegraph has mapped the 'best places' to alive inward England too Wales. To brand this map The Telegraph has created its ain 'index' based on v social too economical criteria. Average Weekly Incomes too Home Ownership levels brand upwardly 2 of these v criteria. Therefore the map places a huge weighting inward its sentence of the 'best places' to alive on areas having no pathetic people or people who don't ain their ain homes.

On outset reading virtually these criteria my outset idea was that The Telegraph was making a truly nasty sentence inward deciding where the ameliorate places to alive are, assuming that if y'all accept the alternative it is ameliorate to avoid living anywhere nigh pathetic people. I too so wondered a lilliputian virtually whether this sentence mightiness truly locomote true. It is exclusively possible that the nicer places to alive larn beyond the agency of people without high incomes. The 'best places' to alive attract to a greater extent than people too the marketplace drives upwardly the cost of holding too the expanse eventually becomes dominated yesteryear people amongst high incomes.

To locomote fair to the paper The Telegraph's supposition mightiness locomote non that an expanse is ameliorate because it has no pathetic residents simply that the ameliorate areas accept higher incomes because they eventually larn unaffordable to anyone without a high income.

To examination this hypothesis I looked at the rankings for areas unopen to where I alive inward East London. In The Telegraph map Redbridge is declared a far ameliorate identify to alive than Hackney. Hackney scores real depression on the abode ownership too average income levels piece Redbridge scores real high on both criteria. Hackney is thus declared a less overnice identify to alive because it has likewise many pathetic people.

Given the alternative even so I don't remember I'm lonely inward thinking that I would far rather alive inward Hackney than Redbridge. Hackney is a far to a greater extent than vibrant too exciting community than Redbridge, amongst far to a greater extent than options inward damage of restaurants, night-life too cultural activities.

Herein lies ane of the problems inward The Telegraph's criteria for deciding where the 'best places' to alive are. My sense is that areas amongst depression income too abode ownership levels are frequently the areas which are the most exciting to live. These are the areas, inward cities inward particular, which frequently attract the young, the artistic too the dynamic start-up companies looking for inexpensive rent.

In fact I await at The Telegraph's The Best Places inward England too Wales too honor that inward the areas I know virtually I would far rather alive inward the places that The Telegraph claims are the worst places to alive than inward their 'best places'. But I gauge that could locomote downwards to my ain social prejudices too the fact that I don't necessarily despise people on depression incomes.

Introducing Wikia Maps

There's a novel interactive mapping platform inward town! Wikia Maps is a novel slowly to occupation map creation tool from Wikia, the costless spider web wiki creation as well as hosting website.

The commencement affair to banking enterprise notation is that Wikia Maps is non a fully fledged online mapping platform. It has like functionality to Google Maps Engine Lite, inward that it allows you lot to speedily add together a few pins to a map as well as thus see the embed code to add together a map to your webpage. However Wikia Maps does accept an selection to speedily practice a map from whatever image. This selection could brand Wikia Maps a real pop amateur mapping tool indeed.

At the 2d Wikia Maps provides 2 primary user options. The commencement option, 'real map', allows you lot to add together map pins to a Mapquest base of operations map layer. You tin practice categories for your added map markers as well as you lot tin also occupation your ain images for the map pins. This easily allows you lot to add together groups of markers as well as to direct a dissimilar map pivot marking for each of your categories.

The 2d selection is where Wikia Maps excels. Using Wikia Maps you lot tin easily practice maps from your ain images. So if you lot desire to practice a map of Westeros all you lot postulate to practice is upload a Westoros paradigm map as well as start adding pins to the map of your fantasy world.

This selection should examine real popular. It allows figurer game players to speedily practice maps of game worlds. It allows fantasy fiction fans to speedily practice maps of fictional worlds. It allows photographers to upload photos as well as add together map pins to highlight people as well as other features inward a picture. I tin really run across this selection existence used past times lots of people inward lots of exciting ways.

If you lot hold off at the Featured Maps you lot tin run across the fun users are already having amongst this selection to practice maps amongst your ain images. There is already a map of the Millennium Falcon, Westeros as well as a photograph map from the Oscars.

If you lot desire to start creating your ain Wikia Map thus you lot mightiness uncovering the Wikia Maps How-to Guide a useful house to begin.

Mapping Nieuw Amsterdam

New Amsterdam is an alternate history map of New York that I created to present how the map of New York would hold back inward a US of the Netherlands. It is if you lot volition an anti Independence Day map - shamelessly ripped off from the If We Won map.

I've straight off added around locations to San Francisco (or equally it is straight off known - Helige Frans). I idea that it would last a picayune harder to uncovering Dutch names for San Francisco districts equally the metropolis doesn't accept the same score of Dutch influence equally New York. However it turns out that a lot of San Francisco district names tin flame last straight translated into Dutch. For example, The Tenderloin translates rather neatly into Filet van Vlees (fillet of meat).

I was helped greatly inward creating the San Francisco labels yesteryear this Mapbox map of SF Building Height. This pretty map of San Francisco edifice superlative likewise includes a handy overlay showing San Francisco districts, many of which I only ran through Google Translate to uncovering their Dutch translations.

Tracking Dr Who On Street View

The novel flavor of Dr Who starts tomorrow. During his absence from our screens the Google Maps Street View car has been tracking the Tardis. The car has managed to capture a publish of Street View shots of the Tardis spell the Doctor has been enjoying his opor-garai fourth dimension travelling only about the UK.

I've set together a niggling slideshow of some of the Street Views of the Tardis on Google Maps. I was helped inwards this chore past times this Ordnance Survey Tardis Map showing the place of 73 constabulary boxes inwards the UK.

My Dr Who map includes frontwards too dorsum arrows too thus y'all tin navigate through the dissimilar Street Views. If y'all larn far to the terminate of the collectionyou tin truly explore the within of the Tardis on Street View.

The Wwi Mapped Interactive

The Guardian has released a real impressive mapped interactive almost the history of World War I. A Global Guide to the First World War uses maps, audio, historical cinema as well as archive paper reports to seek the causes, struggles as well as effects of the offset genuinely world-wide armed conflict.

The introductory map is specially stunning alongside a release of small-scale videos playing inside the province outlines of a global map.

The offset chapter of the interactive is a tour of the basis highlighting when private countries entered the First World War. Let's listen it for plucky Andorra, who, alongside an basis forces of simply 10 soldiers, declared nation of war on FRG inwards 1914.

The other chapters inwards the narrative role well narratives, archive cinema footage as well as excerpts from The Guardian's ain paper reports during the war. These chapters bargain alongside life inwards the trenches, the experiences of soldiers to a greater extent than or less the basis as well as the aftermath of the war.

The United States Of Australia

At the adventure of ane time once again offending all our American readers on Independence Day may nosotros acquaint to y'all roughly other alternate history map of the USA. This fourth dimension nosotros accept tried to re-imagine what the map of the U.S. powerfulness hold off if Commonwealth of Australia was e'er to invade.

 In this map I've renamed the States states amongst roughly of my favorite Australian identify names. The New Australia map was actually likewise difficult to resist creating. The combination of roughly wonderful Aboriginal identify names amongst roughly of Australia's funnier identify names simply seemed likewise difficult to ignore.

I hope y'all I simply replaced the put down names at random -  so delight don't buy the farm offended. For illustration renaming Florida - 'Dismal Swamp' was simply an unfortunate coincidence ;). I also hope y'all that these novel states accept all been named later existent Australian locations.

Mapping Strabo's Geographica

Recently Google reviewed the Hestia Project's Herodotus Timemap. Herodotus, sometimes known equally the Father of History, was a 5th century Greek historian. In his 'Histories' Herodotus recounts the origins of the Great War betwixt the Greeks together with Persians together with the rising of the Western Farsi Empire.

The Hestia Project's Herodotus Timemap connects the text of the Histories amongst a Simile timeline to permit users to visualize geographical references inward the Histories on a Google Map. Using the application you lot tin read through the chapters of the Histories together with persuasion the locations of all the place-names mentioned inward the text on the accompanying map.


If Herodotus was the 'Father of History' together with thus the championship 'Father of Geography' could hold upward given to the Greek philosopher, historian together with geographer Strabo. In the early on days of the Roman Empire Strabo's 'Geographica' described the cultural together with geo-political basis of that time.

To accompany the publication of Duane W. Roller’s novel English linguistic communication translation of Strabo’s 'Geography' the University of Cambridge Press has released an interactive map of all the locations mentioned inward Strabo's Geographica.

The Strabo Map uses Mapbox to add together place-name mentioned inward the Geographica to an interactive map. If you lot buy the e-text of the novel translation you lot tin click through on place-name links inward the text to persuasion the locations on the map. However the map itself is free, thus you lot tin explore the basis equally documented inward Strabo's Geographica to your heart's content.

The map tiles used inward the map are the same AWMC map tiles, equally used inward the Pleides gazette of ancient places.

Tracking Flying 17

I've seen a publish of impressive images maps showing the place where Malaysia Airlines flying M17 was shot downwardly over Ukraine. Now the Wall Street Journal has released the get-go decent interactive map that I've seen.

Tracking Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shows the flying path of flying 17 on July 17th, the appointment of the crash. The map equally good allows yous to sentiment flying paths of flying 17 inwards the months preceding the crash in addition to the paths taken since the bird was fatally shot down.

The map shows that Flight M17 was flying inside the commons flying path. You tin dismiss equally good run across how Flight 17 since the crash is making a broad berth of Ukrainian air space.

The Geography Of Isis Inwards Iraq

A Rogue State Along Two Rivers is a New York Times interactive which explore the ascent of ISIS past times next the paths of the Tigris in addition to Euphrates Rivers. The interactive stitches together a serial of aerial images of both rivers to practice a linear narrative every mo you lot scroll downward the page.

Obviously at that spot is a danger alongside this sort of linear narrative that the medium becomes the whole message. Any ISIS related intelligence stories which hap unopen to distance from the 2 rivers are non going to perish far to the map. However the fact that urban settlements inwards northern in addition to western Republic of Iraq grew-up along the 2 rivers agency that this linear degree of narrative industrial plant really good inwards exploring the ascent of ISIS inwards Iraq.

As you lot scroll downward either river overlays explicate the province of affairs inwards towns in addition to cities, oft alongside links to fuller reports inwards the New York Times. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 small-scale map inset tracks your progress every mo you lot scroll downward the river in addition to a small-scale window overlay reports the expose of miles remaining until the river reaches Baghdad.

Fracking Hell

This Global Flaring Visualization is an animated map showing nightly, infrared satellite detected natural gas flaring across the world.

For damage reasons fossil oil producers oft flare methyl hydride too other gases produced past times fossil oil wells rather than recover the gases. This flaring adds huge amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere too the gases themselves tin often pollute the air.

The map uses information collected past times NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite to present a nightly global snapshot of natural gas flaring over the end v months. Identifiable hot-spots on the map include flaring from the Bakken shale formation inwards North Dakota too the huge natural gas flaring inwards Russian Federation too the Middle East.

Mapping The Crisis Inward Ukraine

Liveuamap is a Google Map reporting incidents from the crisis inward Ukraine. The map is a nonprofit, volunteer run projection alongside a mission to inform the the world near the on-going conflict inward Ukraine.

The latest events inward the province are plotted on the map using categorized map markers as well as are too listed inward a map side-panel. The bluish map markers relate to Ukrainian authorities actions as well as the cherry markers demonstrate the actions of the pro-Russian rebels.

The map includes a appointment picker as well as hence that yous tin choose to persuasion reported incidents from whatsoever appointment during the conflict. It too includes dynamic URL's as well as hence that yous conduct link to whatsoever incident reported on the map.

The Mapbox Figurer Game

Game on With Mapbox in addition to Tilemill is an awesome lilliputian present of how y'all tin plough over the sack practise a unproblematic figurer game using the Mapbox mapping platform. The game is hosted on Codepen in addition to then y'all tin plough over the sack encounter at a glance how the game plant in addition to fifty-fifty utilization the JavaScript panel to larn clues every bit to how to win the game.

The game basis base of operations map tiles were created amongst Tilemill. The player's grapheme is a marking added to the map. You tin plough over the sack motion the grapheme marking around past times using the 'wasd' keys on your keyboard (use 'e' for action). Collision detection is created past times creating a bounding expanse polygon for the room.

Unfortunately in that place is exclusively 1 business involved to consummate the game, nonetheless this is a cracking lilliputian present of how y'all tin plough over the sack practise a game amongst Mapbox. All the code is in that place in addition to then y'all could easily practise your ain fully functioning figurer game amongst this code in addition to the Mapbox platform.

Mapping The Minimum Wage

The Minimum Wage Map is a peachy interactive map which allows yous to compare the minimum in addition to the average annual salaries (in a gain of unlike occupations) of each U.S. state. If yous mouse-over a patch on the map yous tin sentiment the state's minimum hourly wage rate, a yearly minimum wage charge per unit of measurement in addition to the average salaries of unlike occupations.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 divulge of South Eastern states convey no patch minimum wage police describe in addition to thence the minimum wage inwards these states is $7.25, which is the federal wage baseline. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 divulge of states too convey patch minimum wage rates develop below the federal minimum wage. Employers inwards these states must too encounter the federal wage baseline of $7.25. Washington has the highest minimum wage at $9.32, followed past times Vermont on $8.73.

The map was created amongst Leaflet. Interestingly the map has dragging develop to simulated - map.dragging.disable(); - which yous don't oft consider implemented on interactive maps. This agency that yous can't pan roughly on the map. On this map the user actually doesn't postulate to drag the map around, in addition to thence disabling panning does appear a logical choice. If yous click on the patch the map automatically zooms inwards on the selected state. Clicking on the map i time again zooms out to present the whole of the United States.

Europe Is Moving Westwards

The European Union has released a novel opened upward information portal to render information on European Union funding in addition to the socio-economic province of affairs inwards each European Union country. The information tin live on downloaded inwards a publish of mutual formats (including CSV, JSON in addition to XML) in addition to tin live on used gratis of charge.

The Cohesion Policy Data also provides visualizations of the information inwards a publish of formats, including using Mapbox powered maps. The maps allow y'all to visualize a publish of the socio-economic data-sets on a map of Europe, including information on GDP, unemployment rates in addition to population.

The internet migration information is peculiarly interesting. Immigration is currently proving to live on a hot political theme inwards many European countries then I'm certain this information volition examine to live on pop alongside developers in addition to intelligence outlets. The map (screenshot above) clearly shows that almost of the European Union countries from the one-time Eastern Bloc (including East Germany) are experiencing high levels of emigration.

The map likewise shows that the many of the almost pop destinations inwards Europe are simply about the Mediterranean coast, alongside north-western Italy, southern French Republic in addition to eastern Espana proving peculiarly pop equally migrant destinations.

The 2014 Tour De France Alive Tracking

This twelvemonth the greatest bike race inwards the world, the Tour de France, has 3 stages inwards the UK. If you lot desire to scout the race inwards mortal so you lot should cheque out the road of the 3 Great Britain stages on the official website of Yorkshire tourism.

The Yorkshire tourism website has created road maps for the outset 3 stages of the race: Stage 1: Leeds to Harrogate, Stage 2: York to Sheffield in addition to Stage 3: Cambridge to London. Each of the 3 maps shows the road which the cyclists volition accept in addition to an summit nautical chart of the mapped stage.

Each map likewise includes places of involvement to take in along in addition to to a greater extent than or less the road of the race. You tin thence purpose the maps to non exclusively uncovering a corking location to scout the Tour de French Republic simply to likewise uncovering interesting places to take in nearby.

The domicile page of the website likewise includes a map showing the alive seat of the pack.

View Le Tour


The Official Tour de France website includes a alive interactive Google Map of the race. You tin purpose the map to sentiment the route, start, complete in addition to checkpoints of the electrical flow stage.

Unfortunately the map doesn't allow you lot to sentiment the alive seat of private riders simply it does rails alive the caravan in addition to the electrical flow leaders. If you lot desire to sentiment the alive seat of private riders it looks similar you lot volition involve maintain to download the official app, which promises 'live GPS tracking of riders'.

The Maps Of The Week

The Gaza War Map is a powerful visualization of the devastating upshot of Israeli air strikes inwards Gaza. The map consists of a publish of 360 grade panoramic Street Views taken inwards the Gaza Strip since the onslaught of the acquaint conflict betwixt State of Israel as well as Hamas.

You tin navigate to each of the Street Views yesteryear using the thumbnail images or yesteryear selecting the markers on the map. As you lot pan some 1 of the custom Street View images a radar command on the map shows the direction of your electrical flow signal of view. You tin besides right-click on a panorama to modify the panorama's projection.


This calendar week I besides liked the Van Gogh Map, created alongside Mapbox GL as well as textures taken from Van Gogh paintings.

I originally posted the map because I idea it provided a bully illustration of how to add together textures to map tiles inwards the novel Mapbox GL. However the map seemed to smasher a chord alongside Google readers as well as has been far as well as away the most viewed as well as shared map over the concluding 7 days. For that argue solitary it has to survive into to this week's Maps of the Week round-up.

The map is besides worthy of a bit look. Since I wrote almost the map on Th some operate has been done on cleaning upwards the texture seams. 

If you lot similar artistic looking maps as well as then you lot powerfulness besides similar this Leaflet powered Fractal Map. Using the map you lot tin pan some as well as zoom inwards on a publish of beautiful fractal patterns.

The map includes a Leaflet hash library, which agency that you lot tin pan as well as zoom the map to notice your favorite fractal patterns as well as and then part the thought yesteryear cutting as well as pasting the URL. The map is besides a bully demo of using the Leaflet mapping platform alongside HTML5 canvass as well as Web Workers. You tin explore how this is achieved on the map's GitHub page.

Conservation & Crowd-Sourced Maps

This calendar week I came across 2 interesting examples of organisations using crowd-sourced maps inwards guild to assistance protect the countryside inwards the UK.


Butterfly Conservation are holding their annual butterfly count (19th July- tenth August). The butterfly count enables Butterfly Conservation to monitor the wellness of butterfly species across the UK.

If you lot take in Butterfly Conservation you lot tin download a Butterfly Chart to assistance you lot put as well as tape butterflies. You as well as then require to discovery a suitable place as well as pass only 15 minutes identifying as well as recording the butterflies which you lot see.

All the results from this crowd-sourced butterfly census are as well as then added to the Butterfly Sightings Google Map. The butterfly sightings on the map tin last filtered past times date, species, habitat as well as location.


The Campaign to Protect Rural England has released a Google Map to put brownfield sites across the country.

In guild to drive as well as halt the over evolution of rural solid reason inwards the countryside the CPRE needs your assistance to locate brownfield sites where solid reason is beingness wasted as well as could last used for belongings evolution instead.

#WasteOfSpace is a map of all the brownfield sites identified therefore far. You tin contribute to the map past times submitting brownfield sites past times e-mail, past times Tweet or through Facebook.

The Maps Of The Week

Alternate history novels convey been real pop over the terminal few years. So certainly in that location must last a marketplace for alternate history maps. Newcastle Brown Ale apparently mean value so.

The brewer has released an alternate history map of the U.S.A. inwards respect of Independence Day. If We Won is a bright map of the USA showing how the dry reason powerfulness hold off if the American War of Independence had been won yesteryear Great Britain.

Enter whatever town or urban centre into the map together with you lot tin discovery what the location would last named if the Americans hadn't been so unhappy most paying a picayune tax. For representative El Paso becomes Ye Olde Paso, Charlotte becomes North Charlottesvilleford together with San Francisco becomes Wolverhampton.

This map actually uses the total extent of the Google Maps API, from custom map tiles together with custom labels to Google Places auto-complete. It's worth checking out the 'britanify' business office inwards the map code to meet how some of the American house names convey been turned into Ye Olde English linguistic communication names.


The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is a neat means to explore the growth of U.S.A. cities using USGS historical maps.

Click on the modern Esri map of a location together with all the available USGS historical topographic maps of the expanse are shown inwards a timeline beneath the map. If you lot pick out a map from the timeline it volition so last overlaid on the modern map. You tin thus move through the timeline of historical maps to observe how towns together with cities convey developed over time.

The map includes an opacity slide tool so that you lot tin conform the transparency of the overlaid historical maps. The timeline chemical component division beneath the map tin also last adjusted to growth the size of the map element.


Game on With Mapbox together with Tilemill is an awesome picayune demo of how you lot tin practise a RPG type calculator game using the Mapbox mapping platform. The game is hosted on Codepen so you lot tin meet at a glance how the game industrial plant together with fifty-fifty purpose the JavaScript panel to larn clues every bit to how to win the game.

The game footing base of operations map tiles were created amongst Tilemill. The player's graphic symbol is a marking added to the map. You tin motility the graphic symbol marking approximately yesteryear using the 'wasd' keys on your keyboard (use 'e' for action). Collision detection is created yesteryear creating a bounding expanse polygon for the room.

At in that location is solely 1 chore involved to consummate the game. However I convey heard a picayune rumor that in that location is a lot to a greater extent than to come upwards amongst this game.

Real-Time Earthquake Maps

It's been quite a twenty-four hours for large earthquake news, amongst ii large earthquakes (magnitude 5.3 & 5.1) most the Bárðarbunga volcano inward Republic of Iceland too an earthquake of 6.1 magnitude near American Canyon inward California.

Perhaps unsurprisingly the USGS provides 1 of the best most real-time maps of earthquake activity. The Latest Earthquakes Map provides you lot amongst a publish of options to persuasion earthquake activeness over the final 24 hours, the final calendar week or the final month.

The map too allows you lot to overlay plate boundaries too US mistake lines on the map.

The Ö-Files - Live Earthquake Map uses Google Maps too the Simile Timeline amongst a publish of information sources to too render a alive map of earthquake activeness precisely about the world.

The map is updated every v minutes to demo the latest reported earthquake too you lot tin role the time-line to explore earthquakes over the final 7 days. It is too possible to refine the results shown on the map based on the dissimilar information sources.

Another origin for the latest earthquake activeness is Stanford University's Quake-Catcher Network. The Quake-Catcher Network links participating laptops into a unmarried coordinated network to uncovering too analyze earthquake activity.

Many laptops these days are built amongst accelerometers that are designed to protect your difficult stimulate from damage. The accelerometer detects abrupt displace too tin switch the difficult stimulate off then that the heads don't crash on the platters. The Quake-Catcher Network realized that they could practise the world’s largest too densest earthquake monitoring arrangement but past times using the information from accelerometers inward the world's laptop computers.

QCN uses Google Maps to demo the information collected from participating laptops too from participating desktop computers amongst USB sensors. The map too shows the latest USGS reported earthquakes.

Mapping Squatting Inward Berlin

Berlin Besetzt is a map showing the locations of squats inwards Berlin from 1970 to the introduce day. You tin persuasion all the houses that convey been squatted inwards this menses or you lot tin purpose the engagement slide command to persuasion the history of squatting inwards Berlin over the final few decades.

Using the engagement command it appears that 1981 was the golden historic menses for squatters inwards Berlin. It is likewise interesting to banknote the ascent of squatting inwards due east Berlin afterwards the autumn of the Berlin Wall. The map likewise reveals that Kreuzberg has remained a really pop expanse for Berlin squatters for to a greater extent than that 30 years.

Map Roulette

MapCam allows you lot to connect together with chat amongst people around the world. The site displays active users around the basis on a Google Map. You tin go click on whatsoever user's mark to initiate a video chat or you lot tin go simply sit down dorsum together with expect for somebody to telephone yell upwards you.

Since the launch of the incredibly successful Chatroullete in that place bring been a publish of attempts to practice a mapped version of the pop video chatting site. I've fifty-fifty seen ii called Maproulette. For some argue all previous attempts at creating a map video chat app bring failed. I'm non certain why previous map video chat sites bring non proved successful. The mightiness to last able to conduct somebody from a specific province or urban marrow to beak to seems similar a keen improver to the Chatroullete formula.

My gauge is that the success of MapCam volition depend on the publish of active users it tin go maintain. It too in all likelihood needs to bring a reasonable geographical spread of users, together with then that it is possible to beak to people around the world. When I explored MapCam this morn it seemed to bring a reasonable publish of users, who were fairly evenly spread around the world.

The Footing Of Fiction Mapped

LibrAdventures is a novel Google Maps based literary atlas which allows you lot to explore locations across the globe inwards damage of their association alongside famous authors as well as plant of literature.

Users tin forcefulness out explore the literary atlas inwards a let on of ways. You tin forcefulness out search the atlas past times private author, past times literary genre or past times location. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 expert house to starting fourth dimension exploring the atlas is the Index page, which provides a consummate listing of all the entries. The index tin forcefulness out survive ordered past times writer name, past times twelvemonth as well as past times location.

Individual entries on the map render detailed textual context as well as the pick to persuasion the location inwards Google Maps Street View. Many of the entries likewise render YouTube videos or good clips of adaptions of the literary texts discussed.


The LitMap is some other intersting Google Map which allows you lot to explore the texts associated alongside locations unopen to the world. The LitMap maps books past times where the plots hap or the places that they are associated with.

The LitMap maps whatsoever form of literature, both fiction as well as non-fiction, that tin forcefulness out survive associated alongside a specific geographic location. The LitMap includes an pick for users to submit mass locations to the map. 

The poet Robert Frost said that "All literature begins alongside geography". Poetry Atlas agrees as well as likewise believes that nearly everywhere on Earth, at some point, has had a verse form written well-nigh it.

The Poetry Atlas has thence created a Google Map to attempt as well as geotag equally many poems equally they tin forcefulness out as well as likewise uncovering poems for equally much of the public equally possible. If you lot know well-nigh a verse form that isn't on the map you lot tin forcefulness out email it to Poetry Atlas as well as they volition add together it to the map.

For over 7 years now Google Lit Trips has been plotting the graphic symbol journeys undertaken inwards famous plant of literature.

The site plots the journeys of characters as well as locations mentioned inwards a large let on of literary texts. Google Lit Trips is designed alongside schoolhouse students inwards mind. Each location plotted inwards an private text includes data windows containing a multifariousness of resources, including media, idea provoking give-and-take starters as well as links to supplementary data well-nigh the locations featured.

Mapping The Us Drought

The New York Times has published an interesting animated map to visualize the spread of drought atmospheric condition inwards the United States over the end 5 months. Mapping the Spread of Drought Across the U.S. includes a issue of weekly updated charts amongst an animated map to exhibit the latest extent of the drought inwards the western together with south-western states.

The map animates through the end 5 months showing rut maps of where the drought has been virtually severe. I'm non alone certain how the map was created only based on the Mike Bostock credit I'm assuming the map was created amongst d3, using SVG to depict the map together with the drought areas. The map may too last using path transitions to assistance smoothen the animations betwixt the dissimilar drought past times appointment SVG paths.

Live Boston Develop Maps

If y'all desire to rail trains inwards existent fourth dimension on the Boston MBTA y'all similar a shot convey a choice of 2 unlike maps.

The Boston Train Track shows the electrical flow set of Boston trains on an OpenStreetMap. The trains are color-coded yesteryear trouble as well as the prepare markers dot the direction of travel. If y'all desire to a greater extent than data y'all should banking concern fit out the Live MBTA map.

The Live MBTA is non every bit pretty every bit the Boston Train Track map. The purpose of OpenStreetMap transit lines gives the Train Track map an aesthetic edge. However the Live MBTA includes to a greater extent than data nearly the private trains, including the prepare number, the trains' goal as well as whether a prepare is on fourth dimension or is running late.

The Live MBTA map every bit good gives y'all a few options nearly which trains as well as routes y'all desire to visualize on the map.