The Leaflet Maps Of The Week

There has been some swell maps this week. Some of them were created amongst the Google Maps API in addition to some of them amongst the Leaflet mapping platform. This calendar week I've decided to separate the Maps of the Week round-up into 2 posts. Later I'll hold off at the best Google Maps of the yesteryear week, exactly commencement let's stimulate got a hold off at the best Leaflet maps featured on Google inwards the final 7 days.

By far the virtually viewed map on Google this calendar week was Donut Holes inwards International Waters. This postal service had vi times to a greater extent than page views than the side yesteryear side virtually viewed postal service on Google (which was tidings of Google Maps' novel historic Street View imagery pick - Time Travel amongst Street View).

Donut Holes inwards International Waters is an interactive map showing who has sovereignty over seas some the world. The map every bit good highlights 'doughnut holes', areas which are designated every bit international waters in addition to which tin endure areas of territorial dispute betwixt dissimilar countries.

To exercise the map the author, Dmitriy Skougarevskiy, had to blueprint an interactive map that included the province maritime borders defining each country's sovereignty over the world's seas. He every bit good had to exercise his ain bathymetry layer.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 postal service on the CartoDB Blog explains inwards some item how Dmitriy created his beautiful looking maritime map.


Biking from Place to Place is a neat Leaflet map visualization of Chicago's cycle percentage network. The map uses a really clever Voronoi oestrus map technique which allows you lot to notice out the publish of cycle trips from whatsoever cycle station in addition to persuasion the virtually pop destinations from each station.

Select a cycle station on the map in addition to you lot tin persuasion a oestrus map showing the virtually pop destinations from that station. The map provides some interesting insights into the move patterns of Divvy cycle users. For example, if you lot select a cycle station along Lake Michigan you lot chop-chop notice that virtually Divvy users borrow bikes hither to cycle to other cycle stations along the lake shore.

The oestrus map overlay uses a really clever Voronoi map technique which allows you lot to notice the nearest cycle station to whatsoever location. If you lot betoken to whatsoever place on the map the nearest cycle station is automatically selected for you lot in addition to the Voronoi oestrus map overlay every bit good shows you lot the areas some the goal stations.


Trip Risk is a neat route-planning map for Melbourne, Commonwealth of Australia which displays accident dark spots along suggested routes. The map uses opened upward sourced information on machine crashes, from the State Government of Victoria, to non alone advise a driving road exactly every bit good demo you lot all the machine crashes that stimulate got taken house along that route.

The crash markers along the suggested road are sized to stand upward for the full publish of crashes at each location. You tin click on the crash markers to persuasion the publish of crashes at a place in addition to the full publish of people involved inwards crashes. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 carmine point signifies a crash that involved a fatality.

The results displayed on the map tin every bit good endure filtered yesteryear speed in addition to yesteryear accident type.