The Maps Of The Week

My favorite map of this calendar week wasn't fifty-fifty a map. However it does role a map library, it does role map tiles as well as it does lead keep pan & zoom controls.

The New York Time has used the Leaflet.js mapping library to furnish an interactive interface that allows yous to browse through 129 years of New York Times dorsum editions. You tin role the application to read through a release of historical events equally reported inwards the New York Times at the time, including the shooting of President Lincoln, the sinking of the Titanic as well as the landing of the outset men on the moon.

By using the pop Leaflet.js mapping platform, the New York Times provides users amongst the familiar navigation controls that they empathize from using online interactive maps. The TimesMachine includes panning, zoom controls as well as the click & drag method that spider web users are familiar amongst from using mapping platforms, such equally Google Maps.


The 34th London Marathon took house today. If yous missed it don't worry equally yous tin persuasion the whole road inwards Google Maps Street View. Explore Marathon has released a Street View animation of the whole London Marathon course.

The application allows yous to only press play as well as sit down dorsum as well as sentry a outset mortal persuasion of the whole of the London Marathon course. During your tour of the road yous tin press suspension at whatever fourth dimension as well as role Google Maps Street View to accept inwards the total 360 bird panoramic persuasion of a location.

The application is a smashing agency to explore the London Marathon road as well as at the same fourth dimension accept inwards precisely about of the sights of London, such equally Tower Bridge, the London Eye as well as the Houses of Parliament.

If viewing the whole of the marathon road is only also much at this phase of your couch running grooming schedule as well as hence yous tin role the slider command to skip through the animation as well as at 1 time carry yourself to unlike locations along the course.


The Milwaukee Building Age Map is a MapBox powered map that visualizes the historic menses of buildings inwards this Wisconsin city.

We lead keep seen a lot of these edifice historic menses maps inwards the concluding twelvemonth (see the listing below). The Milwaukee Building Age map follows a familiar format yesteryear shading buildings on the map yesteryear their twelvemonth of construction.

However the Milwaukee map also includes a useful graph that visualizes the release of buildings built yesteryear year. This highlights a structure boom inwards the 1950's. In conjunction amongst the map nosotros tin clearly encounter the increase of Milwaukee inwards the 50's inwards the northeast as well as inwards the southward of the city.