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.