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.