The Maps Of The Week

This calendar week ProPublica released an impressive mapped visualization of the outcome of climate alter too crude & gas exploration inward the terra firma of Louisiana.

Southern Louisiana is losing sixteen foursquare miles a yr to the Gulf of Mexico. At the center of ProPublica's map, Losing Ground, is a serial of timeline visualizations of historical aerial imagery. These timelines allow yous to uncovering the loss of terra firma inward Louisiana past times comparison acquaint 24-hour interval aerial imagery alongside aerial imagery going dorsum to the 1930's.

Accompanying the aerial imagery are a serial of interviews of people living too working inward the affected areas. These interviews are supported past times well files too photos. In combination the audio, photos, interviews too aerial imagery of Louisiana's terra firma loss supply a powerful describe organisation human relationship of this ongoing environmental disaster.


Last yr Dave MacLean, from the GIS Faculty at the Centre of Geographic Sciences of the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), released a map of photos taken from the International Space Station.

Our World from the ISS is an ESRI map of photos, taken from the ISS posted past times @Cmdr_Hadfield too @AstroMarshburn on Twitter. The map allows yous to sentiment thumbnails of or hence really amazing photos of basis taken from the ISS.

Dave MacLean has instantly released a novel map roofing photos from the ISS Missions forty too 41. All the photos are mapped to the locations shown inward the views of the basis depicted. The map may non interruption whatever novel basis inward Blue Planet of interactive cartography only it definitely wins the weekly laurels for the nigh shared map on social media.


This calendar week I was also quite impressed past times the Street View treasure hunt game The Day Google Street View Stood Still.

This Street View game uses the Web Audio API to supply well clues to aid yous uncovering a set out of hidden items. In the game yous are teleported to a Street View place somewhere inward the world. The object of the game is to follow the well clues to uncovering objects nearby. The game is a variety of 'hot or cold' searching game, every mo yous larn closer to the right finish the well clues larn louder. If yous move inward the incorrect administration too hence the sounds becomes quieter.

The Day Google Street View Stood Still has a set out of levels. When yous complete a degree yous are told how many steps yous cause got taken too how long it took yous to accomplish the right destination. If yous brand i of the meridian 10 quickest times yous tin fifty-fifty add together your advert to the high-score table.