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.