The Google Maps Of The Week

In New York joggers dearest Central Park as well as the southern tip of Manhattan. In Chicago the lake shore is real pop as well as inwards San Francisco the Golden Gate Park as well as The Embarcardero appear to live on the close pop places for joggers.

The Strava Global Heatmap is a actually informative Google Map of where joggers similar to run as well as where cyclists dearest to ride. The map allows you lot to stance the close pop running as well as cycling routes yesteryear Strava users across the world.

The map reveals some interesting differences betwixt the preferences of joggers as well as cyclists. In London, for example, lunchtime joggers dearest running along the paths on both banks of the Thames. Cyclists on the other mitt prefer to accept the roads that run parallel amongst the river.


There receive got already seen some amazing applications built amongst the GSVPanoDepth Street View depth library. HyperlapseMB uses the depth information hidden inwards Street View information to practise a dainty motion blur upshot to an animated Street View get and Urban Jungle is a fantastic website that allows you lot to stance Street View scenes enhanced amongst some virtual jungle greenery. Both of these sites receive got been created amongst the undocumented depth information stored inwards Street View.

Now cheers to GSVPanoDepth as well as some awesome hacking yesteryear Callum Prentice you lot tin dismiss pace into a 3d version of Street View made upwards of a betoken cloud representation of the Street View depth data.

Once immersed inwards the betoken cloud representation of Street Cloud you lot tin dismiss spin approximately 360 degrees, await upwards as well as downwards as well as fifty-fifty stance the original Google Maps Street View. After you've checked out the betoken cloud representation of your identify (you know you're going to practise it) why non type inwards '210 westward 46th St, New York, United States' to stance Times Square (pictured above).


The New York Times has mapped where the fans of America's baseball game teams live. The paper has taken information from Facebook to practise a Google Map that allows you lot to explore baseball game fandom inwards the USA downwards to county level.

Using the information of Facebook users who receive got declared back upwards for a baseball game squad inwards their profiles, the New York Times has produced this Map of the Baseball Nation. The final result is a map of the U.S. of A. of America which replaces the 50 states amongst a colorful montage of baseball game regions.

Zoom inwards on the map as well as you lot tin dismiss select counties on the map to stance the superlative iii teams (and the pct of fans for each) supported inwards the clicked county. You tin dismiss likewise search the map yesteryear zip-code or address to uncovering out who are the close supported baseball game teams inwards your county.