Maps Of The Week

OSM Then together with Now allows yous to sentiment OpenStreetMap coverage or hence the the world inwards 2007 side-by-side amongst today's OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap was started inwards the Great Britain inwards 2004. OSM Then together with Now shows that yesteryear 2007 OpenStreetMap was nonetheless a largely European project. By 2007 European cities, such equally London, Amsterdam together with Berlin had been comprehensively mapped. Conversely coverage inwards the remainder of the the world was real patchy together with practically non-existent inwards most countries.

Even inwards many European cities OSM inwards 2007 was nowhere nigh equally comprehensive equally it is now. The screenshot inwards a higher house shows the map of Paris. You tin clearly run into that inwards 2007 (on the left) although the route map was fairly detailed the map was largely gratuitous of points of interest, edifice plots together with other map features.


The KLM Must See application is a pretty cool tool to create a overnice customized map for an upcoming trip. Using the application yous tin select a metropolis which yous excogitation to see presently together with create a map of places yous desire to visit.

Using the application yous tin easily add together places which yous desire to see to a personalized map. The map uses the Google Places API, hence that equally yous type inwards a venue it should automatically appear beneath the search box. You but demand to select the right proposition together with a map pivot is automatically added to the map. This also agency that yous tin type inwards generic terms, such equally 'museum' or 'gallery' to sentiment a listing of these venues inwards your chosen city.

The application also allows yous to connect amongst your friends, via Facebook, Twitter or electronic mail invite, hence that they tin recommend places on the map for yous to visit.

The KLM map also makes expert operate of the Styled Maps characteristic inwards the Google Maps API to create a map inwards the KLM livery colors. The folded newspaper effect on the KLM map uses a good established icon masking trick.


The Royal British Legion is hoping to commemorate every Commonwealth serviceman together with adult woman who died inwards World War I. Every Man Remembered allows yous to commemorate relatives who died inwards the First World War or larn out a commemoration for someone that hasn't yet been given a tribute.

Every Man Remembered includes a Google Map showing the resting places of Commonwealth soldiers or hence the world. If yous select a cemetery on the map yous tin sentiment details most the servicemen together with women from the First World War who are buried or commemorated there. If yous select an private serviceman or adult woman from the map yous tin read details most their service together with life.

If yous accept data most a Commonwealth serviceman or adult woman who died inwards the country of war yous tin add together your data together with photos of them to the records.


On the 1st August 1914 Deutschland declared country of war on Russia. Deutschland followed this up, ii days, afterward yesteryear declaring country of war on France. One twenty-four lx minutes menstruum afterward Great Britain declared country of war on Germany. The First World War had really begun.

One hundred years afterward the measurement of World War I mapping is also gathering momentum. The latest World War I map is this impressive Esri Story Map most ane Australian farm-hand's journeying from rural Victoria to his decease inwards activeness on the grim battlefields of Gallipoli.

It is difficult for anyone to fathom the sheer scale of the over sixteen meg deaths of World War I. For King together with Country - John Henry Cartwright's Gallipoli create 1914-1915 focuses on but ane of those sixteen meg life together with decease stories together with is all the to a greater extent than poignant for it. The map traces John Cartwright's journeying from Victoria inwards Commonwealth of Australia to Gallipoli. The map is illustrated yesteryear vintage photographs, archive celluloid together with some of Cartwright's ain armed forces records.

The map is a plumbing fixtures memorial to the sacrifice made yesteryear John Henry Cartwright together with somehow fifty-fifty brings to a greater extent than clearly into focus the lives of the millions of other servicemen together with women who died fighting inwards World War I.