The Maps Of The Week

In 2009 an earthquake inwards the Italian urban pith of L'Aquila caused the expiry of 308 people too damaged many of the town's historically of import buildings. Last twelvemonth the City of L'Aquila released Noi L'Aquila.

Noi L'Aquila is a Google Map where residents of L'Aquila tin tape their memories of the city. The site too included a Google public plugin of L'Aquila visualizing its reconstruction alongside 3D models.

Now yous tin too receive got a virtual walk through L'Aquila inwards a novel custom Street View tour of this historic Italian town. Hello L'Aquila is an amazing interactive virtual tour of the urban pith consisting of to a greater extent than than 400 custom shot Street View panoramas roofing the entire historic urban pith center.

Most of the Street View images on Google Maps inwards L'Aquila were taken earlier the 2009 earthquake. This novel Street View tour allows yous to explore the urban pith inwards its electrical current state. The novel tour fifty-fifty includes Street View images taken within some of the city's historic buildings, allowing yous to run across the restoration run existence carried out to repair the impairment caused past times the earthquake.

If yous click on the cross inwards the summit right-hand corner of 1 of the Street View images yous tin persuasion a Google Map which shows some of the of import locations inwards the urban pith captured inwards this novel custom Street View tour. The xanthous icons on the map dot where yous tin persuasion indoor Street View panoramas.


This calendar week I was too impressed past times The Boston Globe's interactive photograph of survivors of the bombing of the Boston Marathon. Although non strictly a map, the photograph was created alongside the Leaflet mapping platform.

One twelvemonth afterwards the tragic bomb explosion at the Boston Marathon, The Boston Globe invited survivors, police, firefighters, EMTs, doctors, nurses too runners dorsum to the complete trace of piece of occupation on Boylston Street to pose for a grouping photo.

The resulting One Year, One City photograph is a powerful testimony to the resilience of the people of Boston. By using the Leaflet mapping platform the Boston Globe has created an interactive photograph which yous tin pan around too fifty-fifty zoom inwards on individuals inwards the picture. You tin fifty-fifty click on the people inwards the photograph to acquire a lilliputian to a greater extent than nearly their sense during end year's tragic events.

The library used to practise this photograph has too been opened upward sourced on GitHub.


Dynamic The Netherlands Shading is a gorgeous looking map that includes dynamic colina shading based on the engagement too fourth dimension of day. Move the engagement too fourth dimension of 24-hour interval sliders too yous tin run across the colina shading update forthwith on the map.

The dynamic colina shading is powered past times a combination of MapBox's dynamic hillshading too the SunCalc library.