Mapping Icelandic Earthquakes

I similar this map of Icelandic Earthquakes. The map itself isn't genuinely rendered real good exactly it is an interesting visualization of earthquakes inward Republic of Iceland since 1995.

Icelandic Earthquakes uses d3.js alongside the Leaflet mapping library. The map is from the National Land Survey of Iceland, which provides swell topographical information. However Icelandic Earthquakes does highlight i of the problems of using map tiles generated from newspaper maps, inward that the map loses resolution when zoomed out.

Where the map is genuinely practiced inward is inward the reach the user has inward visualizing the earthquake data. It is possible to refine the earthquake information shown on the map past times date, past times magnitude in addition to past times depth. It is too possible to refine the agency the earthquake polygons are presented on the map past times size, opacity in addition to past times the set out of polygons displayed.

Good Even Out Novel York

Instant Peeping is an interesting experiment exploring the conduct patterns of Instagram users inwards major cities around the world.

Select i of the cities on Instant Peeping together with you lot volition move taken to a Google Map of your selected location. After a few moments real-time photos submitted to Instagram volition look inwards the map sidebar together with the place of the photograph volition move displayed on the map. Over fourth dimension patterns should emerge on the map showing you lot where close Instagram users are located, or where inwards the metropolis the app is currently beingness used the most.

At 8pm on a Mon nighttime 2 distinct clusters induce got appeared on the map of New York, inwards Manhattan together with Brooklyn. I don't know New York at all - together with thus I'm guessing that is where the restaurants together with bars are.

If you lot click on the 'Analysis / Data' link you lot tin terminal persuasion data on the close used tags inwards the metropolis together with on the twenty-four hours together with times that Instagram is close popular.

Joy Partition Inspired Maps

Peter Saville's pattern for the sleeve of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album is ane of the near iconic examples of encompass art. The white on dark lines of the album encompass are based on an picture of radio pulsar waves.

Elevation Lines is a Leaflet map which takes inspiration from the Unknown Pleasures album inwards its design. The map visualizes global tiptop information every moment a serial of vertical lines. You tin fifty-fifty click on the map to add together a profile path betwixt whatever ii points.


This Worldwide Population map in addition to owes pattern inspiration to Joy Division's iconic album cover. The map uses d3.js to practice a map of the globe which represents population density yesteryear latitude.

The map uses population information from NASA. You tin select to sentiment the population densities for a lay out of unlike years, which agency that you lot tin sentiment how the global population has changed over the concluding xx years. The map was inspired yesteryear James Cheshire’s Population Lines. If you lot honour this population visualization every moment beautiful every moment I practice you lot tin purchase prints of James' map from his website.

The Perfect House For Love

The economical downturn inwards Europe too the high terms of holding has resulted inwards many Europeans beingness forced to alive amongst their parents good into their belatedly twenties. One number of adults living amongst their parents is the work of where to larn to convey sex. This inwards business office could explicate the popularity inwards Europe of Places for Love. Of degree it mightiness every minute good convey a lot produce amongst the eternal appeal to Europeans of extra-marital sexual practice too al fresco sex.

Places for Love is a Google Maps based application where users tin laissez passer on notice recommend their favorite outdoor locations for making love. These could last parks, placidity beaches or simply locations amongst beautiful views. Currently the map has over 10,000 locations that convey been recommended across the globe.

So, if you lot are looking for the perfect house for love, simply come inwards a location into Places for Love too you lot should last able to respect the perfect love-spot nearby.

The History Of The London Metro Inwards I Minute

The world's outset clandestine railway opened inwards Jan 1863. The outset gas-lit wooden carriages hauled yesteryear steam locomotives ran betwixt Paddington in addition to Farringdon inwards London. Although the journeying was muddied in addition to unpleasant the cutting inwards journeying times proved hugely pop in addition to presently novel stations in addition to lines began to live on added to the London Underground. The London Underground straight off serves 270 stations in addition to has 250 miles of track.

You tin thought an animation of the increase of the London Underground over the final 151 years on this CarrtoDB map. London's Rail System inwards sixty seconds is an animated map which shows when all of London's rail in addition to clandestine stations were outset opened.

The map's creator has too published a real practiced tutorial on how to create your ain animated map using CartoDB's Torque library. How to Make an Animated Map amongst CartoDB in addition to Torque takes you lot through the steps of creating an animated map, from how to format your information to uploading the information & animating it amongst CartoDB in addition to Torque.

The Detroit Edifice Historic Catamenia Map

Over the final yr Google has featured a lot of maps which convey visualized the historic catamenia of buildings inwards cities roughly the world. There is fifty-fifty a map visualizing the historic catamenia of buildings inwards a whole province (the Netherlands). Here is the listing of edifice historic catamenia maps that nosotros convey featured inwards the final year: New York, Brooklyn, Moscow, Reykjavík, all of the Netherlands, all of the Netherlands - again, Ljubljana inwards Slovenia, Portland, Oregon and Chicago. We tin sack at i time add together Detroit to the list.

The Detroit Building Age map visualizes the historic catamenia of Detroit's buildings yesteryear their decade of construction. If you lot zoom inwards you lot tin sack lead private buildings on the map to discover details nigh the yr of construction. After you lot convey selected a edifice you lot tin sack likewise run the 'Data Layers' carte du jour to detect out other information, such every mo the building's owner, the revenue enhancement condition as well as the size of the property.

3D Driving Routes

This Bing WebGL Demo is really clever. The bear witness uses Bing Map tiles, pinnacle information too BabylonJS to exercise an animated 3d drive-through of whatever route.

Enter a starting indicate too a goal into the bear witness too you lot tin sentiment a drive-through of the calculated road inwards 3d. You tin speed-up or slow-down the charge per unit of measurement of the animation too you lot tin drag the map only about to alter the administration of your view.

The bear witness includes a card of a few pre-configured routes or you lot tin larn inwards your ain locations to generate a route. If you lot desire to sentiment your ain road thus I propose you lot larn inwards somewhere alongside hilly terrain to overstep the sum 3d consequence of the pinnacle data.

Ambient Street Sentiment Sounds From P. Morris

Los Angeles producer P.Morris has released a debut mixtape, truly called 'Debut'. You tin post away brain to the mixtape online at morrismakes.com. The online version of the mixtape combines P.Morris' ambient tunes amongst the interactive imagery of Google Maps Street View.

Each vocal is paired amongst an picture taken from Street View. The Street Views are enhanced using WebKit filters, together with then yous volition in all likelihood need to run the Chrome browser to leave of absence the amount visual effect. However yous alone need to plough upward your speakers to accomplish the amount aural effect.

New Information Layer For The Google Maps Api

The Google Maps API forthwith has a novel Data Layer which makes it rattling slowly to add together GeoJSON to your Google Map creations.

Using the novel Data Layer alongside only 1 describe of piece of occupation of code yous tin give notice add together a GeoJSON file to your map. The specific describe of piece of occupation of code looks similar this:

map.data.loadGeoJSON(‘filename.json’);

With that 1 describe of piece of occupation of code yous tin give notice charge information onto your Google Map. You tin give notice therefore role the new

Data.setStyle()

characteristic to manner how the information looks on the map. The manner characteristic allows yous to role custom markers, fill upward colors as well as opacity levels for polygons, as well as describe of piece of occupation color as well as describe of piece of occupation weighting alongside polylines.

The novel Data Layer besides allows yous to add together information termination handlers to your data. The termination handlers include mouse-over as well as mouse click events.

You tin give notice larn to a greater extent than well-nigh the novel Data Layer inwards the Google Maps Javascript Documentation, alongside exhibit maps for each of the novel features.

Street Persuasion Beneath The Waves

Google Maps has added novel underwater Street View captured yesteryear the Caitlin Seaview Survey. The novel imagery includes Street Views off the coast of Monaco, French Republic at the Larvotto Marine Reserve as well as at Roche Saint Nicholas.


In United Mexican States at that spot is novel underwater imagery at the UNESCO World Heritage site Sian Ka'an, the MUSA underwater museum off the coast of Isla Mujeres, at Santa Rosa Wall as well as Columbia Deep. There are too roughly amazing Street Views of whale sharks at Isla Contoy.


In America you lot tin instantly too tour novel Street View imagery taken from a boat inwards the San Francisco Bay.

Fly Me To The Luna Map

Google Moon left, LROC right

NASA has launched a map of the moon's northern polar region. The LROC Northern Polar Mosaic is an interactive map of the due north pole of the Moon from threescore to xc degrees due north latitude.

The map uses satellite images which are incredibly detailed at two-meters-per-pixel too rather puts Google's ain Google Moon map to shame. The icon inwards a higher house shows the J. Herschel Crater displayed on Google Moon too the novel LROC Mosaic. The Google Moon icon on the left is fully zoomed in, piece the LROC map has 5 farther levels of zoom.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter entered lunar compass inwards June 2009 too it has taken 4 years to practise this mosaic icon of the moon's due north pole. It has been good worth the wait.

Mapping Teenage Pregnancy

The UK's Office for National Statistics has released a powerful mapped visualization of Under xviii Conception Rates inwards England & Wales.

The map allows users to explore excogitation rates betwixt 1998 together with 2012 at local ascendence level. The tool shows how nether xviii excogitation rates convey changed over this fourth dimension menstruum together with enables comparisons betwixt unlike local regime together with betwixt a selected local ascendence together with the overall national picture.


This novel tool is simply the latest inwards a serial of mapped visualizations of Great Britain information past times the Office for National Statistics. In the past times the ONS has released a release of Fusion Tables powered Google Maps to visualize Great Britain economical & demographic data. Here are simply a few of their Great Britain maps:

The Income Estimates Map is a map that allows users to stance the estimated average weekly identify income for neighbourhoods throughout the UK. Users tin forcefulness out click on a place or role the search box to search for an address together with stance the average weekly income inwards that area.

The Urban Rural definition Map is a map of the Great Britain showing whether each neighbourhood is designated every bit urban, rural or 'town or fringe'. The Public together with Private Sector Employment Map shows the subregional distribution of world together with somebody sector occupation together with allows users to explore the distribution inwards their area. The Households inwards Poverty Estimates Map provides estimates of the proportion of households inwards poverty inwards Great Britain neighbourhoods. 

Mapping Boston Homicides

It seems rather trite to beak most the blueprint of a homicide map merely I similar the interaction betwixt the map in addition to the information inwards this Boston Globe Homicides inwards Boston map.

Select a located murder on the map in addition to the information tabular array below the map automatically scrolls to display the entry for the selected homicide victim. Next to each victim's cite y'all tin direct the 'stories' tab to click through in addition to read the Boston Globe reports on the homicide.

The map besides includes a nifty characteristic that automatically updates every bit y'all zoom in addition to pan the map to demo the full release of victims displayed inwards the electrical flow map view.

Other Crime Map Visualizations

The Google Maps Gig Guide

Gigero is a slick Google Maps based events involve for finding upcoming gigs unopen to the world. You tin search Gigero either yesteryear place or yesteryear the refer of an creative someone to notice upcoming gigs listed on last.fm.

If yous search yesteryear a metropolis upcoming gigs are displayed on the map too listed inwards the map sidebar inwards chronological order. If yous search yesteryear an artist's refer yous tin persuasion all the locations unopen to the footing where the creative someone is scheduled to play too i time to a greater extent than all the gigs are listed inwards chronological club inwards the sidebar.

Just Iii Words

The globe is divided into 57 trillion 3 ten 3 meter squares. Each of those squares tin live on uniquely identified amongst only 3 words. If yous know the right 3 words yous tin at in i trial carry yourself to whatsoever location inwards the world.

Welcome to the globe of What3Words.

Launched final year what3words is a service that divides the globe into 3 ten 3m squares too gives each foursquare a unique address of only 3 words. Three words tin live on easily remembered hence what3words provides a slap-up service to easily portion locations amongst your friends.

Imagine, for example, that yous wishing to run across your friends at a specific location inwards the park. It could live on a location that doesn't accept an exact address, such every bit beneath a detail tree. With what3words yous only postulate to say your friends to run across yous at 'grow longer bottle' too they tin easily uncovering the exact location using the what3words desktop, Android or iOS app.

Try it at nowadays - grow longer bottle

For a pocket-sized cost users tin likewise purchase i give-and-take links. Today what3words has released native iOS too Android apps. The apps enable what3words users to purchase too motility their OneWords whilst on the go, hence sharing a electrical flow location is at nowadays easier than ever.

If yous purchase a i give-and-take link yous tin associate it amongst a describe concern - hence yous tin portion the location of your describe concern amongst customers amongst only i word. Alternatively yous tin associate a OneWords link amongst yourself. Using the what3words mobile app yous tin too hence update your location whenever yous desire too everyone who yous accept shared your i give-and-take link amongst tin at in i trial uncovering you.

The what3words application is likewise incredibly useful when travelling abroad. If you've ever flora yourself struggling to follow addresses too directions inwards a unusual script yous volition appreciate how tardily it would live on to only live on able to associate 3 English linguistic communication words amongst a location too live on able to ever at in i trial uncovering it on a map.

For example, inwards Moscow instead of searching for Красная площадь on your Google Map yous tin only function into brave.school.discount into the what3words app too at in i trial uncovering your agency to Red Square.

Neon Maps

M+, Hong Kong’s museum for visual culture, has released an interactive online exhibition celebrating Hong Kong’s neon signs. Neon Signs explores, maps as well as documents the city's wonderful neon signs.

The populace tin upload images of their ain favorite neon signs from throughout Hong Kong as well as they volition appear on the Neon Signs Google Map. The map itself uses the Styled Map characteristic as well as custom map markers to exercise a unique looking map. The markers purpose horizontal neon colored lines that stand-out on a dark as well as grayness themed map.

The dark as well as grayness map tiles besides ensure that the colorful photos of the city's neon signs appear brilliant against the nighttime map background.

Incredible 1830'S London Street Views

In the 1830's John Tallis published 88 pamphlets entitled 'Tallis's London Street Views'. These guides included a local map together with sketched street views of a issue of London's primary commercial roads. It was, if yous will, the Google Maps of Georgian London.

The Museum of London owns a issue of these pamphlets together with has created an amazing 'Street View' type application that allows yous to close walk downward together with simply about 35 of these 19th Century London Streets. In London Street Views 1840 yous tin thought the Tallis illustrations for each street together with compare them to the modern thought today equally seen inwards Google's ain Street View application.


However yous should belike ignore the Google Maps Street View together with simply opened upward up the 19th Century Tallis Street Views inwards full-screen mode. You tin thus pretend to survive Jane Austen together with twirl 360 degrees simply about these London streets together with accept your level constitutional upward downward the Georgian London streets.

How To Avoid Hipster Social Suicide

Over the concluding few years I convey found it to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than hard to avoid the social embarrassment of beingness spotted inwards a hipster pub or bar. It is an unfortunate fact of modern life that the nicer a drinking institution is in addition to then the to a greater extent than probable it is to survive all of a abrupt overrun yesteryear this plague of modern inner-city society.

Luckily nevertheless I convey discovered that no-one else genuinely wishes to guide a opportunity the social suicide of beingness seen inwards a hipster venue. It is thence real slowly to spot a hipster bar or pub yesteryear beingness able to recognize the disguises worn yesteryear the embarrassed patrons.

On outset entering a pub y'all should await real closely at all the customers. If all the immature men are wearing ridiculous simulated beards y'all should brand equally quick an function out equally is humanly possible. The danger amongst this method nevertheless is that y'all may soundless survive spotted leaving the hipster bar. It would thence survive much amend if y'all genuinely had a hipster map that allowed y'all to avoid entering these traps of social suicide inwards the outset place.


Luckily if y'all alive inwards the Australian metropolis of Melbourne y'all straightaway convey such a map. The Hipster Map of Melbourne is a handy guide to venues that y'all wouldn't desire to survive seen dead in.

The map includes a disclose of categories, which way that if y'all are looking for somewhere to eat, drinkable or purchase clothe inwards Melbourne y'all straightaway convey a handy map of places to avoid.


The rating in addition to review service Yelp has likewise released a Google Map that tin demonstrate y'all where the hipsters hangout inwards your city.

The Yelp Wordmap is a serial of heatmaps of mutual words used inwards Yelp reviews. One of the words is 'hipster' which way y'all tin role the map to avoid beingness seen inwards a hipster venue. If y'all guide 'hipster' from the available words inwards the map sidebar in addition to and then guide a metropolis (from a pick of fourteen cities worldwide) y'all tin thought a heatmap of where the hipsters hangout inwards your town.

Mapping Boston's Gas Leaks

The Conservation Law Foundation has released an in-depth study into Massachusetts’ antiquated natural gas distribution system. Much of the ageing Massachusetts’ gas pipeline organisation is rattling one-time in addition to prone to leaks, creating a pregnant world security in addition to environmental hazard.

The Conservation Law Foundation's study into Massachusetts' Triple Threat discusses inwards especial the security threat of gas leaks, the direct chances to the surroundings in addition to the terms to gas customers. Each of these original sections of the study is illustrated amongst an accompanying interactive map.


The 3 maps visualize gas leaks past times flat level, marsh gas emissions in addition to where gas leaks accept been repaired.

One frequent work that I come upward across inwards online long course of educational activity journalism is embedded maps that are squeezed into a pocket-sized infinite to relieve on valuable covert real-estate. The Massachusetts' Triple Threat study manages to neatly overcome this work past times providing a full-screen pick on each map.

Greenpeace Maps Novel Zealand Fossil Oil Spill

Oil society Anadarko volition start deep bounding main exploratory drilling this summertime off the coast of New Zealand. In answer Green Peace New Zealand has released the Oil Spill Map, which models the probable number of an crude tumble from ii sites that bring been targeted for deep bounding main drilling.

The map animates the probable effects of a blowout on either of the ii rigs together with the drift of the probable crude spill. Each animation progresses inwards daily stages, showing the increment of the crude tumble together with the presumed answer past times the New Zealand authorities.


Into the Arctic consists of a number of mapped stories recounting Greepeace's care against crude drilling inwards the Arctic.

One of the stories includes a time-line together with map of the events leading upward to the illegal boarding of the Greenpeace send Arctic Sunrise past times the Russian coast guard together with the arrest of all on board. The map shows the journeying of the Arctic Sunrise from July 1st when it gear upward canvass on its mission to break the unsafe crude drilling inwards the Arctic. It includes an trouble concern human relationship of the ship's mission together with besides tells the stories of approximately of the activists that were arrested together with placed on lawsuit inwards Russia.

The Best Mortgage Rates On Google Maps

We produce similar a showtime on Google as well as this is definitely the showtime map of mortgage involvement rates that nosotros accept seen. SvD Näringsliv has released a Google Map that allows its readers to add together the place of their banking concern to the map as well as betoken how much their mortgage involvement charge per unit of measurement is.

Other users tin flaming therefore role the map to enquiry banks inward their surface area to disclose which ones are offering the best mortgage involvement rates. They mightiness fifty-fifty disclose that their ain banking concern has offered individual else a lower bargain as well as tin flaming therefore role the data to endeavor as well as renegotiate their ain involvement rate.

The SvD's Räntekarta includes a release of useful controls that let the user to filter the banks displayed on the map. The slide command at the bottom of the map allows yous to filter the results past times the involvement rates charged. If yous exclusively desire to sentiment banks offering rates betwixt 4-6% yous exactly accommodate the sliders to filter the results shown on the map.

The bill of fare inward the map sidebar allows yous to filter the results past times banking concern cite or past times location.

The Well-Nigh Famous Locations Inwards Rock

From the crossroads where Robert Johnson sold his person to the devil to the auditorium where Ozzy Osbourne chip the caput of an unfortunate bat Fox inward Rioh has mapped out the only about of import locations inward stone 'n' curlicue history.

Fox inward Rioh is a Google Maps that displays "the 440 destinations that made the history of stone 'n' roll". Click on whatsoever of the markers on the map in addition to you lot tin sentiment the place inward Street View, psyche to a narrated storey of why the house is of import to stone history in addition to read an concern human relationship of the mapped location.

Two drop-down menus let you lot to select locations associated amongst specific artists or select to filter the locations shown on the map past times genre of music.

The Maps Of The Week

This Bing WebGL Demo is rattling clever. The demonstrate uses Bing Map tiles, meridian information in addition to BabylonJS to practise an animated 3d drive-through of whatever route.

Enter a starting indicate in addition to a goal into the demonstrate in addition to yous tin dismiss persuasion a drive-through of the calculated route inward 3d. You tin dismiss speed-up or slow-down the charge per unit of measurement of the animation in addition to yous tin dismiss drag the map around to alter the direction of your view.

The demonstrate includes a carte du jour of a few pre-configured routes or yous tin dismiss come inward your ain locations to generate a route. If yous desire to persuasion your ain route in addition to then I advise yous come inward somewhere amongst hilly terrain to become the amount 3d final result of the meridian data.


In the 1830's John Tallis published 88 pamphlets entitled 'Tallis's London Street Views'. These guides included a local map in addition to sketched street views of a issue of London's primary commercial roads. It was, if yous will, the Google Maps of Georgian London.

The Museum of London owns a issue of these pamphlets in addition to has created an amazing 'Street View' type application that allows yous to almost walk downwardly in addition to around 35 of these 19th Century London Streets. In London Street Views 1840 yous tin dismiss persuasion the Tallis illustrations for each street in addition to compare them to the modern persuasion today equally seen inward Google's ain Street View application.

However yous should in all probability ignore the Google Maps Street View in addition to merely opened upwards up the 19th Century Tallis Street Views inward full-screen mode. You tin dismiss in addition to then pretend to last Jane Austen in addition to twirl 360 degrees around these London streets in addition to accept your eve constitutional upwards downwardly the Georgian London streets.


M+, Hong Kong’s museum for visual culture, has released an interactive online exhibition celebrating Hong Kong’s neon signs. Neon Signs explores, maps in addition to documents the city's wonderful neon signs.

The world tin dismiss upload images of their ain favorite neon signs from throughout Hong Kong in addition to they volition appear on the Neon Signs Google Map. The map itself uses the Styled Map characteristic in addition to custom map markers to practise a unique looking map. The markers piece of employment horizontal neon colored lines that stand-out on a dark in addition to greyish themed map.

The dark in addition to greyish map tiles likewise ensure that the colorful photos of the city's neon signs appear brilliant against the nighttime map background.

Mapping The History Of The Wintertime Olympics

There are to a greater extent than or less overnice Google Maps integrated into this website well-nigh the Winter Olympic games.

Olympic Story is a well-designed website examining the history of the Winter Olympics. Olympic Story allows you lot to choose whatever of the venues that accept been used to host the Winter Olympics to notice interesting data well-nigh each games, such every bit the break of participating countries, the break of athletes too of course of written report data well-nigh who won all the medals at each games.

For each of the venues which accept hosted the Olympic Games you lot tin sentiment a Google Map visualizing which countries medals were awarded to. You tin choose to sentiment the goal of gold, silver, bronze too all medals. The full break of medals won past times each province are represented on the map past times the thickness of the lines connecting each country.

The Autocomplete Map Maker

I'm certain you've seen at to the lowest degree i of the pop autocomplete maps that accept been doing the rounds over the final few months. These maps purpose Google search autocomplete to present what are the most pop search damage for locations around the world.

Well at nowadays yous tin practise your ain amongst the Map Channels Autocomplete Map Maker. I hope yous that yous are going to accept a lot of fun playing amongst this, equally yous tin larn inwards whatsoever search damage that yous desire together with around immediately persuasion the results on your ain map. You tin fifty-fifty embed your created maps inwards your ain website.

Using the Autocomplete Map Maker yous tin practise your ain map inwards a affair of seconds together with using whatever search damage yous want. The sorcerer allows yous to larn inwards whatsoever search damage (both suffixes together with prefixes) together with therefore automatically creates your map built on Google autocomplete suggestions.

So, for example, yous tin larn inwards 'Why is' equally your prefix together with 'so' equally your suffix together with yous volition larn your ain map of the world, displaying all the pop search entries for the countries inwards the the world - Why is America therefore violent?

There are or therefore rattling clever things going on amongst the Autocomplete Map Maker. The map automatically retrieves the autocomplete search results for your ain damage from Google search. It therefore adds labels to a Google Map showing the results. You tin choose to persuasion either the results for countries or for U.S. of A. states. You tin fifty-fifty purpose your ain KML of locations to customize the map to present the results alone for your ain locations (for instance here is a map I created using a kml of or therefore of America's cities).

The labels on the map are displayed using an enhanced version of the Google Maps label library. Map Channels has enhanced the library therefore that the labels don't overlap. Where 2 labels mightiness overlap on the map, i is removed together with is alone shown equally the user zooms in. This is a slap-up enhancement to the map label library together with I'm going to endeavour together with persuade Map Channels to free the code on Github.

How To Visualize Criminal Offence Past Times Location

The effectiveness of a practiced criminal offence map owes a lot to the flexibility it provides users inwards filtering the visualization of criminal offence past times location, type of crime, engagement together with fourth dimension of day. The San Francisco Crimespotting map provides a keen example of how you lot tin flame hand users command over the visualization of criminal offence data.

The map uses colored map markers to exhibit the place of unlike types of crime. You tin flame filter the types of criminal offence displayed past times using the controls inwards the map sidebar. You tin flame every bit good mouse-over the private crimes listed inwards the sidebar to persuasion all those crimes highlighted on the map.

The 'date' together with 'time of day' controls every bit good permit you lot to filer the results shown on the map past times whatsoever engagement make or for whatsoever menstruum or combination of periods during the day.

Why Is Australia In Addition To Then Hot?

I've been feeling a chip lamentable for Australia. Recently I've beingness seeing a lot of those Google search autocomplete maps for American states together with European countries but none alone for Australia. I've thence used Map Channels' awesome new Autocomplete Map Maker to practice a couplet of Australian autocomplete maps.

The Why is Australia map shows the Google autocomplete results for Australian states together with major cities when yous type inwards 'Why is (state) so ...' into Google. From the resulting map I tin only assume that Australians locomote simply about their province inwards a province of constant surprise close how hot their province is. Except when they croak to Canberra when they only desire to know why it is so cold.

Australia Needs is a like map, only this fourth dimension the map shows the autocomplete search results when yous type inwards '(state) needs ...'.  Apparently Commonwealth of Australia is inwards postulate of a major structure drive, because Melbourne needs a subject park, Adelaide needs taller buildings together with Brisbane needs to a greater extent than bridges.

If yous desire to practice your ain Autocomplete map together with so banking concern stand upward for out the new Autocomplete Map Maker which allows yous to practice your ain map using whatsoever Google search terms.

Why Are Arsenal In Addition To Thence Bad?

I've been having a lot of fun over the end ii days playing amongst the novel Map Channels Autocomplete Map Maker.

One of the corking features of this sorcerer for creating your ain Google search autocomplete maps is that you lot tin role a kml of your ain locations. This morning time I created a kml of all the English linguistic communication Premier League teams to discovery out what the Google autocomplete suggestions were for English linguistic communication football game clubs.

The English Premier League Autocomplete Map isn't truly that enlightening. Most of the results are bespeak why teams are in addition to then bad, or for a really few teams why they are in addition to then good. Manchester City are 1 of the few clubs to elicit simply about other response. As far equally City are concerned most people look to move wondering why they are in addition to then rich.

However if you lot click on whatever of the teams' label on the map you lot tin persuasion a listing of Google Autocomplete search suggestions for that club. For event if you lot click on the Manchester United label on the map you lot volition meet a arrive at of responses, including:

Why are Manchester United in addition to then bad this season?
Why are Manchester United in addition to then popular?
Why are Manchester United in addition to then successful?
Why are Manchester United in addition to then good?
Why are Manchester United in addition to then hated?

(If you lot are wondering close the answers to those Man Utd questions - hither they are: David Moyes, glory hunting fans, they aren't anymore, they aren't anymore, glory hunting fans.)

Mapping Life On Earth

The Map of Life is an impressive endeavor to map life on Earth.

Using the application it is possible to click on a Google Map together with decease a listing of all the unlike types of bird, fish, reptile, amphibian or mammal that alive inwards a laid upward radius around that location. For example, if I click on my address the map returns a listing of 168 unlike types of aeroplane together with 32 unlike types of mammal.

It is too possible to role the map to stance the worldwide habitats of unlike species. If yous teach into the cite of an creature species the map volition shade inwards the areas of the world that the creature inhabits.


The USA National Phenology Network's Phenology Visualization Tool helps monitor the influence of climate on the phenology of plants, animals, together with landscapes inwards the U.S..

The site allows users to pick out a constitute or creature together with stance where that species has been reported on a Google Map. It is together with thence possible to stance an animation of the species' phenology (phenology refers to recurring constitute together with creature life bike stages) through time.

It is too possible to stance climate information on the same map. Users tin move stance maximum temperature, minimum temperature together with atmospheric precipitation either yesteryear calendar month or annually. If yous animate species information through time, with climate visible, yous volition encounter the climate information on the background modify amongst the phenology data.


The Atlas of Living Australia is the world human face upward of a $64.7 i grand 1000 initiative, funded over vi years yesteryear the Australian Government. Using the Atlas users tin move find, access, combine together with visualize information on Australian plants together with animals. It aims to enable whatever user to rapidly locate together with access information on all aspects of Australian biodiversity.

The website uses Google Maps to let users to search, analyse together with combine biodiversity together with environmental information geographically. The Species Map allows yous to search for species yesteryear mutual or scientific names. Occurrences are together with thence mapped equally points or equally numbered cluster markers. Clicking on the map at a detail place returns a inquiry on how many occurrences of detail species are inwards a 10km radius from the selected point.

The application comes with a long listing of contextual layers. All are good referenced to metadata with auto-generated legends for slowly identification of what diverse color scales mean. Created maps tin move move saved equally images for farther reuse.


The Web of Life provides a Google Maps based interface for easily visualizing together with downloading information on ecological networks of species interactions.

The map displays circular markers where ecological networks are located. The color of the markers indicates the type of ecological interaction of the network. Red markers demonstrate pollination together with yellowish markers seed dispersal. If yous left-click on a mark yous tin move stance information nearly the network, including the release of species, release of interactions together with the cite of the species.


The OBIS-Seamap uses Google Maps to demonstrate the distribution together with the ecology of marine mammals, seabirds together with body of body of water turtles across the globe.

It is possible to search together with stance information on the map for a release of unlike marine species. It is too possible to filter the information shown on the map yesteryear taxon group; 'sea bird', 'sea turtle' or 'marine mammal'.

Why Are Foreigners As Well As Thus Rude?

It tin plough over the sack hold upwards tough beingness an English linguistic communication speaker travelling abroad, specially inwards countries where they don't verbalize English. I abide by that the louder I proper substantive at foreigners to attention them empathise the ruder they get.

This is manifestly a mutual sense of people when travelling abroad. At to the lowest degree judging past times my Nationalities Autocomplete Map. This map shows the autocomplete suggestions of Google search when you lot type inwards 'Why are (nationality) then ...' The results advise that everyone wonders why the English, the Czech, the Germans, the Spanish, the Russians together with the Indians are all then rude.

People look to hold upwards as dumbfounded past times the niceness of the Canadians together with the stupidity of the Americans.

Another occupation when travelling abroad is all that unusual food. The Food Autocomplete Map shows Google search autocomplete suggestions for queries inwards the bird of 'Why is (nations) nutrient then ...'. Based on this map you lot should avoid visiting America, Greece, Russia, Kingdom of Spain (all bad food) together with England together with Poland (bland food). Instead, to guarantee a adept dining experience, you lot should caput for France, Germany, United Mexican US or Nihon (all adept food).

Both these novel autocomplete maps were created inwards a few minutes using the novel Map Channels Autocomplete Map Maker.

Are Yous F..Cking Hungry Yet?

If y'all ever convey problems deciding where y'all should swallow together with then WTF is for Lunch tin brand that determination for you. The application determines your electrical current place together with your yesteryear choices together with rapidly comes upwardly amongst a proposition of a nearby restaurant.

WTF is for dejeuner likewise provides a handy Google Map showing y'all where the eatery is located. For the terminally undecided the application likewise allows y'all to refuse the suggested venue together with larn or thus other nearby choice for lunch.

If swearing offends y'all together with then y'all mightiness desire to give this app a miss.


If swearing actually does appal y'all together with then y'all should likewise avoid Where the F..k Should I Go for a Drink? together with Where the F..ck Should I larn to Eat? However if y'all desire or thus blunt advice most where y'all tin larn a nearby potable together with then acquit on ...

If y'all portion your place amongst either of these 2 apps y'all volition live on shown a Google Map of your electrical current place amongst directions to a nearby bar, pub or restaurant. Above the map is a large (and rude) inquiry that gives the lift of your suggested local watering hole or restaurant.

If y'all click on the named venue inwards the map headline y'all tin view the suggested locations's website. If the suggested venue doesn't delight y'all together with then y'all tin click to larn an alternative f..cking recommendation.

Explore Sunken Ships Inward Street View

The USS Mohawk was a USA Coast Guard cutter. She was sunk on July 2, 2012 off the coast of Southwest Florida. She is the get-go dedicated veterans memorial armed forces send reef as well as is becoming a pop finish for scuba divers.

However yous don't ask to go to Florida to accept a tour closed to the sunken USS Mohawk every bit yous tin straightaway explore the scuttled send on Google Maps Street View. You tin persuasion the Street Views on Google Maps Views, amongst some added data nearly the cutter or yous tin persuasion the cutter straight on Google Maps.


Google inwards partnership amongst the Catlin Sea Survey cause got every bit good captured undersea Street View imagery of the wreck of the paddle steamer the Mary Celeste.

The Mary Celeste was a blockade runner used during the American Civil War on behalf of the Confederacy to smuggle goods inwards as well as out of America. If yous desire to know to a greater extent than nearly the Mary Celeste as well as thence banking corporation stand upwards for out this picayune biography of the Mary Celeste that I pose together amongst the aid of jQuery Waypoints as well as the Google Maps API.


Indoor Street View imagery of the submarine HMS Ocelet is every bit good available on Google Maps. HMS Ocelot is an Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine, that in ane lawsuit served inwards the UK's Royal Navy. The sub straightaway serves every bit a museum inwards Chatham Historic Dockyard.


This indoor tour of the submarine on Google Maps lets yous explore all over the vessel as well as gives groovy views of the cramped sailor's quarters, the engine room as well as the ship's torpedo tubes.