The Maps Of The Week

This calendar week I was impressed alongside a expose of applications that brand creative exercise of Google Maps Street View. The Keyhole Conundrum and A Town Called Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Paradise are both impressive games in addition to the Point & Click Street View Browser is an interesting experiment inward creating a novel agency to navigate Google Maps Street View. However my favorite Street View application this calendar week was the frightening World Under Water.

Do y'all desire to encounter what your menage volition await similar 1 time global warming causes an inevitable rising inward ocean levels? Just type inward your address into World Under Water in addition to y'all can, thank y'all to the glory of Street View.

World Under Water is a real powerful crusade from Carbon Story which uses Google's panoramic imagery to laissez passer on y'all a glimpse of your domicile nether water. There are a expose of Google Maps that tin laissez passer on y'all a map sentiment of rising ocean levels. However World Under Water has a far greater visual impact, merely because y'all tin truly accept a glimpse of your ain domicile sinking nether the rising seas on Street View.


One of my favorite maps of the weeks is tracking outbreaks of MERS. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory affliction caused past times a coronavirus called MERS-CoV. The infection tin induce severe acuate respiratory illness, fever in addition to shortness of breath. Currently the infection has a mortality charge per unit of measurement of approximately 27%.

MERS has in addition to thus far largely been confined to the Arabian Peninsula but a few cases receive got too been reported inward Europe in addition to final calendar week the start illustration was reported inward the United States. The MERS Corona Map is tracking occurrences of the infection approximately the world.

The map uses information from the World Health Organization in addition to wellness ministries to runway the spread of the infection. Colored round out map markers demo the expose of people infected inward cities. You tin click on the markers to sentiment the full expose of infections in addition to the expose of deaths caused past times the virus.

The map too allows y'all to filter the map to demo the latest cities to written report infections or to sentiment the cities that receive got reported the virtually infections.


One of the virtually viewed maps on Google this calendar week was this animated map the increment of Ikea, showing the opening of Ikea stores approximately the footing over the final fifty years.

The map of Ikea Store Openings has an ingenious scroll bar command which I like. Essentially Ikea Store Openings is an animated time-line in addition to mapped visualization of the increment of Ikea over time. As y'all scroll downwards the page the time-line moves in addition to the corresponding shop openings look on the map.

The map includes a clever auto-scrolling function. Click the play push in addition to y'all tin laissez passer on your mouse finger a residuum every bit the time-line automatically scrolls downwards in addition to the stores magically look on the map.