The Maps Of The Week

Kelly Norton has created a beautifully designed interactive map of the nigh pleasant places to alive inwards the USA. The Pleasant Place to Live Map is a point rut map of towns as well as cities inwards the U.S.A. displaying the pose out of 'pleasant' days enjoyed each year.

Norton has defined 'pleasant' equally a hateful temperature betwixt 55° F as well as 75° F alongside no pregnant atmospheric precipitation or snowfall depth, using information from the NOAA. Users tin search the map yesteryear zip-code or exactly click on the map. The v nigh pleasant as well as to the lowest degree pleasant cities are listed below the map.


Happy Birthday Gio is i of the simplest maps of the week. However it is such a bright as well as cute thought that it is equally good i of the Maps of the Week.

I'm non certain who Gio is but he has a lot of friends exactly about the world, all of whom were happy to part video birthday greetings alongside him on this personal Google Map. Happy Birthday Gio uses the Google Maps API Styled Maps characteristic to practise a distinctive, personal map for Gio's exceptional day. The map features videos from Gio's friends from all exactly about the world, which tin live on watched straight from the map.

H5N1 personal birthday map is such a sugariness idea. I bet it made Gio's day.


The unwritten dominion of online marketing of automobiles is that you lot convey to move Google Maps Street View. Nissan are the latest car manufactures to practise a clever cyberspace advertising movement that uses Google Maps satellite views as well as Street View.

The Nissan Rogue - Detour allows you lot to practise a road using Google Maps or direct from a pose out of predefined routes. Once you lot convey created a road you lot tin sit down dorsum as well as lookout adult man a brusk animation of your road on Street View alongside a pose out of Nissan Rogue inspired twists as well as turns along your drive.


Time has mapped all the geo-tagged Super Bowl related Twitter messages sent before, during as well as afterward Sunday's game. Super Bowl Pulse uses CartoDB alongside Leaflet map tiles to render an insight into how verbalise of the Super Bowl dominated social media on Sunday.

The Tweets are color-coded as well as then that you lot tin run into which squad generated the nigh interest. The map is animated as well as then that you lot tin equally good run into how the teams fared on Twitter throughout the game. Half-time related tweets larn their ain color on the map - which turns the map a dainty shade of royal during the principal event, squeezed inwards betwixt the 2 running exactly about parts.