The Maps Of The Week

This clever map uses the underlying information for roads inwards OpenStreetMap to calculate the route orientation patterns for whatever location. Using the map you lot tin zoom inwards on whatever surface area of the globe in addition to a rose diagram displays the route orientation distribution inside the electrical flow map bounds.

The VeloViewer interactive map allows you lot to persuasion the route direction blueprint for whatever district or urban heart inwards the world. You tin motility the map some in addition to zoom inwards or out on whatever place in addition to the rose diagram volition update on the wing to demo the route direction distribution inside the electrical flow map view.


The Autocomplete Map Maker is some other clever map. Using the application you lot tin exercise a Google search autocomplete map using whatever search price that you lot want.

Enter search term(s) into the Autocomplete Map Maker (both suffixes in addition to prefixes are accepted) in addition to you lot tin exercise your ain fun map, based on the Google search autocomplete suggestions for your chosen words. For example, for the map inwards a higher house I entered 'why is' every bit the prefix in addition to 'so' every bit a suffix in addition to the sorcerer automatically created a map of USA cities based on Google's autocomplete search terms.


This calendar week I every bit good desire to laissez passer on honorable mentions to 2 experimental transit maps. The MTA.me Conductor has turned Massimo Vignelli's 1972 New York subway map into a real-time string instrument. The map visualizes inwards real-time trains moving on the MTA subway network in addition to plays a banker's complaint every fourth dimension a subway prepare crosses the rail of some other train.

Bruno Imbrizi's Experiment No.7 is a 3d map of the London Underground, amongst metro stations in addition to animated real-time trains. The map is fully interactive, in addition to therefore you lot tin pan in addition to zoom the map to explore the depth of the dissimilar clandestine lines.