Beyoncé - Beyond The Map

I most convey been the exclusively mortal on the planet to convey missed the tidings that Beyoncé has released a novel album. At to the lowest degree I look to hold upwards yesteryear this animated map of all the people around the basis busy Tweeting most the singer.

The Torque library to animate through nearly a whole day's worth of Tweets. not everyone liked the map or Time's coverage of it. Here's i especially thoughtful critique of the map.

Liberté, Fraternité & Not Égalité

This French Revenue map shows the geographical distribution of high in addition to depression earners inwards French Republic based on the country's taxation returns.

The map appears to demonstrate a concentration of higher earners inwards the north-east, whilst lower earners seem to a greater extent than concentrated inwards the south-west. Zooming inwards on Paris the map likewise effectively visualizes the concentration of depression earners inwards the Saint-Denis northern suburb.

The information for the map comes from 2010 taxation returns.

Have You Lot Sent Your Street Stance Christmas Cards Yet?

Send a Christmas Street View Message is an oldie simply a goodie. This real clever Google Maps application helps y'all practise as well as post a personal vacation greeting from your ain selection of Street View.

Once y'all choose a Street View place as well as add together your ain personal message this app creates a stylized Street View scene, amongst animated snowfall as well as your greeting. The app pans as well as zooms unopen to your chosen Street View accompanied past times some overnice soothing Christmas related music.

Once y'all are happy amongst your personal Christmas Street View scene y'all tin post the URL link to your friends. This app uses WebGL, as well as then y'all volition quest to role a compliant spider web browser.


This yr the Snowman is too visiting your street on Street View. Chocolate companionship Thorntons, bring created a magical online Christmas Card featuring Raymond Briggs' cute Snowman grapheme (and Google Maps).


The Thorntons Facebook Christmas Message application allows y'all to post an animated Christmas message to a friend inwards which the Snowman flies over their household (using Google Maps satellite imagery) as well as fifty-fifty walks downward their street (using Street View).

Mapping Global Urbanization

One of the biggest social changes only about the basis inwards the final ii hundred years has been the continued shift inwards populations from rural areas to towns too cities. The global ascent inwards urbanization is an ongoing procedure too is predicted to expire along inwards the 21st Century.

The UNICEF Urban Population Map is a fascinating visualization of the ascent of urbanization only about the basis since 1950. It likewise visualizes the continued predicted ascent until 2050. Countries are represented on the graphic yesteryear circles, which are scaled inwards proportion to the size of the urban population. The color of the circles reverberate the per centum of the population living inwards urban areas.

As y'all play the animation the circles grow too alter inwards color equally urban populations increase only about the basis over fourth dimension too the color of the circles alter equally the percentages of countries' populations living inwards towns too cities grow.

When Should Nosotros Meet?

Over the years we've seen a few Google Maps that assistance friends or concern collegues honour the best house to come across based on a release of dissimilar locations. Mezzoman is a practiced representative of this sort of map. Give Mezzoman upwards to 4 dissimilar starting points together with it volition operate out the midway betoken betwixt the locations together with a release of recommended venues for your meeting.

These days all the same meetings accept house to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than ofttimes past times teleconference. What these type of meetings ask is assistance alongside planning the fourth dimension of the meeting, peculiarly if the participants are dispersed across dissimilar time-zones.

World Meeting Time is a handy Google Map that tin assistance you lot operate out what the fourth dimension is around the globe for each player inwards a planned meeting. All you lot get got to create is drib pins on the map to develop the place of everyone inwards your planned meeting.

If you lot together with therefore develop the commencement participant’s reference fourth dimension the times for all the other participants are automatically displayed. Adjust the fourth dimension of the coming together together with all the times are automatically updated to exhibit what the fourth dimension volition move for everyone inwards the planned meeting.

The Geography Of Television Set News

I bring seen a lot of Carto DB Torque powered maps inward the terminal month. This animated map of the geography of 400,000 hours of TV tidings is alongside the near interesting.

The Internet Archive geo-coded 400,000 hours of U.S. of A. of America boob tube tidings together with mapped the locations mentioned inward each report. The Animated Geography of TV News map animates through the locations mentioned inward the tidings providing a smashing visualization of the countries together with areas that have the near attending together with the areas which are neglected past times American tidings (sorry Africa).

A Google Map Of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

The Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Map is a Google Map showing the place of libraries around the basis inward possession of digitized medieval manuscripts.

Every marking on the map represents a library. Clicking on the marking opens an information window amongst the institution's refer as well as a link to the digitized manuscripts available. If y'all conduct the 'about' link higher upward the map y'all tin likewise stance a estrus map of the libraries as well as the master copy data.

The Cern Super Collider Scavenger Hunt

This yr Google Maps released Street View imagery of the Hadron Collider at CERN. In anticipation of the arrival of Google Maps CERN hid LEGO® figurines to a greater extent than or less the centre.

You tin destination right away run inwards CERN's Scavenger Hunt. If y'all tin destination notice iii of the figurines past times searching to a greater extent than or less CERN on Street View you’ll hold upwards entered to win a gift of your selection from the CERN Gift Guide. Unfortunately a Super Collider isn't i of the prizes but at that spot are a release of goodies on offering that y'all only powerfulness win.

Hat-tip: Google Street View World

Mapping The Meshing Of Things

Thingful is a rare example of an interactive map made from Nokia map tiles. The map itself shows the place of thousands of cyberspace connected devices to a greater extent than or less the world, including position out energy monitors, conditions stations, pollution sensors, geiger counters together with transportation containers.

You tin search the map for connected devices past times place together with filter the results shown on the map past times category. If y'all lead a mark on the map y'all tin click through to read to a greater extent than close the selected device together with to sentiment the device's alive feed.

Liberté, Fraternité & Not Égalité

This French Revenue map shows the geographical distribution of high in addition to depression earners inwards French Republic based on the country's taxation returns.

The map appears to demonstrate a concentration of higher earners inwards the north-east, whilst lower earners seem to a greater extent than concentrated inwards the south-west. Zooming inwards on Paris the map likewise effectively visualizes the concentration of depression earners inwards the Saint-Denis northern suburb.

The information for the map comes from 2010 taxation returns.

The United States Of Lego

Well, well, well, here's the minute LEGO related shipping of the day. Anyone would intend Christmas was on the way.

The United States of Lego is an ESRI map with, you lot guessed it, but about awesome LEGO map tiles. And there's more. Not only is this map of the USA made alone from LEGO's colored bricks each dry reason on the map features its really ain LEGO diorama.

If you lot similar the dioramas you lot tin fifty-fifty buy a impress from Jeff Fiesen's Brick Fantastic website.

The Prettiest Map Of The Year

Mapping the Sea is a gorgeous interactive map of the Isle of Barra inwards the Outer Hebrides.

The map was created past times creative mortal Stephen Hurrel too social ecologist Ruth Brennan. For the map local schoolhouse pupils interviewed local fishermen too older inhabitants of the island. The map explores the rich cultural cognition of the islanders, peculiarly inwards relation to the seas some the island.

The map features a publish of interactive markers that let you lot to explore photos of Barra too audio-clips that let you lot to heed to the tales of the islanders straight from the map.

Mapping European Information Privacy

After this year's revelations nearly the NSA's surveillance of European citizens' telephone calls together with email together with its bugging of European leaders, yous would convey idea that the Europeans would hold upward pretty corking on firming upward their information privacy laws. Well if yous though that yous would convey been wrong.

According to LobbyPlag most European countries don't back upward novel information privacy laws. The European Union is currently negotiating novel information privacy laws which volition supplant all existing national laws on information privacy. LobbyPlag is mapping together with tracking back upward together with opposition to the novel information privacy proposals across the EU.

The map shows inwards blood-red those countries that are against to a greater extent than information privacy together with inwards greenish those inwards favour. Users tin click on each of the countries to honor which of their MEP's are most against to a greater extent than information privacy together with which are most inwards favour.

The Wheel Routes Of San Francisco

Cyclodeo has arrived inwards San Francisco. Cyclodeo is a actually useful application that enables cyclists to preview a route on a Google Map as well as on video earlier project the journeying past times bike.

This agency Cyclodeo's mapped videos of cycle routes are at nowadays available inwards New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Eindhoven as well as San Francisco. The novel San Francisco coverage includes 92 routes representing merely about 150 km of the city's roads.

Here are some instantly links to a few of the best novel videos of San Francisco cycle routes:

• Golden Gate Park 
• Golden Gate Bridge 
• Point Lobos Avenue
• Laguna St (starting a 02:35)

The Happy Novel Yr Twitter Map

This New Year's Eve y'all tin lookout the basis celebrate for 24 hours, from Australia to Hawaii, on the #happynewyear tweetmap.

The #happynewyear tweetmap is a Google Map displaying Twitter messages or in addition to then the basis containing the hashtag 'happynewyear'. You don't fifty-fifty accept to expect until New Year's Eve to catch the map every mo people or in addition to then the basis are already wishing each other a happy novel year.

The map uses a swell mark clustering solution that shows the set out of Twitter messages at dissimilar locations. You tin zoom inward on the map to sentiment the private markers. You tin besides sentiment all the posted Tweets every mo a rut map to come across where inward the basis Twitter users are posting the or in addition to then 'happy novel year' messages.

The site besides includes a set out of continually updating statistics on the set out of #happynewyear Tweets sent or in addition to then the basis in addition to the set out of those Tweets that are geo-tagged.

Mapping The Meshing Of Things

Thingful is a rare example of an interactive map made from Nokia map tiles. The map itself shows the place of thousands of cyberspace connected devices to a greater extent than or less the world, including position out energy monitors, conditions stations, pollution sensors, geiger counters together with transportation containers.

You tin search the map for connected devices past times place together with filter the results shown on the map past times category. If y'all lead a mark on the map y'all tin click through to read to a greater extent than close the selected device together with to sentiment the device's alive feed.

Map Your State Senator

The Senate Address Geo-coding Engine (SAGE) is a Google Maps based application too API that is designed to render voters amongst tardily access to data most New York State districts too representatives.

Enter an address into the District Lookup too you lot tin sentiment the solid lay down district that the address falls inside too discovery the State Senator for the district. The senator who represents the district is displayed inward the map sidebar. Beneath the listed senator you lot tin sentiment the solid lay down senators for the surrounding districts.


Map Your Representatives is a handy application that helps you lot discovery out who your political representatives are, from local councilor upwards to the President himself, but yesteryear clicking on a Google Map.

Enter your zip-code or address into the search bar too a pivot volition live on dropped on your location. The page volition too then automatically scroll downwards to discover all your local political representatives.

The map itself includes an attractive mask that creates a circular map. If you lot pan the map to a greater extent than or less the map marking remains inward the middle of the map too non on your searched for location. Simply click on the 'Update Location' push clit too the political representatives for the novel place volition live on displayed on the map.

Historical Maps Inward The Digital Age

Charles O. Paullin as well as John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the the States was starting fourth dimension published inward 1932. The Atlas contained most 700 maps roofing a vast hit of social, economical as well as political aspects of life inward the Untied States.


Most map fans volition in all likelihood go familiar amongst at to the lowest degree to a greater extent than or less of the maps featured inward this comprehensive Atlas of life inward America. For illustration Paullin as well as Wright's maps of rates of travel, which exhibit how long it took to move from New York to other locations throughout America at diverse points inward its history, are reproduced to this day.

The University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab has directly released an awesome online interactive showcase of the most 700 maps inward the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. All of the maps bring been made interactive as well as overlaid on the modern map of the the States (using Leaflet). Not alone tin you lot thought all the maps using the zooming as well as panning tolls familiar to online map platforms only the University of Richmond has added a issue of interactive features that update these historical maps for the digital age.

So, for example, the rates of move maps tin go queried past times location. Mouse-over whatever of the rates of move maps as well as you lot tin thought the distance from New York at that place as well as the estimated historical move time. Or banking corporation jibe out the historical maps of election results. Not alone tin you lot thought each of the maps overlaid on the Leaflet interface only you lot tin animate through the whole serial of election results maps from 1789 to 1927.

Introducing The Novel York Trouble Concern Atlas

New York's Office of Data Analytics has released a Google Map to render local businesses amongst data that tin flame help them inwards making to a greater extent than informed describe of piece of employment organization decisions. The Atlas should render an invaluable involve to anyone running or planning to run a describe of piece of employment organization inwards NYC.

The NYC Business Atlas contains data on population & demographics, local describe of piece of employment organization weather condition as well as other useful data such equally pedestrian activeness inwards dissimilar areas of New York.

For example, if yous were planning to opened upwardly a novel up-market eating theatre yous could purpose the atlas to explore the population as well as demographic distribution of potential locations for your business. You could explore the charge per unit of measurement of potential pedestrian activeness as well as yous could too sentiment areas amongst electrical current high or depression numbers of restaurants.

The Happy Novel Yr Twitter Map

This New Year's Eve y'all tin lookout the basis celebrate for 24 hours, from Australia to Hawaii, on the #happynewyear tweetmap.

The #happynewyear tweetmap is a Google Map displaying Twitter messages or in addition to then the basis containing the hashtag 'happynewyear'. You don't fifty-fifty accept to expect until New Year's Eve to catch the map every mo people or in addition to then the basis are already wishing each other a happy novel year.

The map uses a swell mark clustering solution that shows the set out of Twitter messages at dissimilar locations. You tin zoom inward on the map to sentiment the private markers. You tin besides sentiment all the posted Tweets every mo a rut map to come across where inward the basis Twitter users are posting the or in addition to then 'happy novel year' messages.

The site besides includes a set out of continually updating statistics on the set out of #happynewyear Tweets sent or in addition to then the basis in addition to the set out of those Tweets that are geo-tagged.

Tweeting Happy Novel Year

Tweeting "Happy New Year" is an interesting map from Twitter showing the progress of 'Happy novel year' Tweets, inwards dissimilar languages, equally the novel twelvemonth began merely about the world.

The map shows where in addition to when dissimilar languages peaked during New Year's Eve. Line graphs for dissimilar languages are displayed nether the map, which permit you lot to thought where in addition to when the languages peaked on Twitter.

The trouble graphs lucifer to lines of longitude on the map. So, for example, if you lot mouse-over the altitude inwards the Portuguese 'feliz ano novo' you lot tin run into that the phrase was almost oft posted past times Brazilian Twitter users.


The #happynewyear tweetmap has similar a shot recorded over i in addition to one-half 1000000 'Happy New Year' messages sent merely about the world.

The map uses a non bad marking clustering solution that shows the release of Twitter messages at dissimilar locations. You tin zoom inwards on the map to thought the private markers. You tin likewise thought all the posted Tweets equally a oestrus map to run into where inwards the globe Twitter users posted the almost 'happy novel year' messages.

Map Your State Senator

The Senate Address Geo-coding Engine (SAGE) is a Google Maps based application too API that is designed to render voters amongst tardily access to data most New York State districts too representatives.

Enter an address into the District Lookup too you lot tin sentiment the solid lay down district that the address falls inside too discovery the State Senator for the district. The senator who represents the district is displayed inward the map sidebar. Beneath the listed senator you lot tin sentiment the solid lay down senators for the surrounding districts.


Map Your Representatives is a handy application that helps you lot discovery out who your political representatives are, from local councilor upwards to the President himself, but yesteryear clicking on a Google Map.

Enter your zip-code or address into the search bar too a pivot volition live on dropped on your location. The page volition too then automatically scroll downwards to discover all your local political representatives.

The map itself includes an attractive mask that creates a circular map. If you lot pan the map to a greater extent than or less the map marking remains inward the middle of the map too non on your searched for location. Simply click on the 'Update Location' push clit too the political representatives for the novel place volition live on displayed on the map.

Tv Dinners On Google Maps

TV Food Maps is a Google Map that tin help yous uncovering restaurants that yous convey seen on your favorite nutrient as well as move shows. The site features close 4000 restaurants as well as bars that convey appeared inward 38 dissimilar TV shows.

You tin search the map yesteryear place to uncovering restaurants near-by or yous tin search for restaurants from whatsoever of the 38 featured nutrient or move shows.


Diners, Drive-ins as well as Dives is a Google Map of the diners visited yesteryear Guy Fieri on the Food Network's 'Diner's Drive-Ins as well as Dives'. It is a neat resources for finding traditional American diners.

Users tin search the map yesteryear address or zilch code as well as specify to thought results inside 100, 200, 300 or 400 miles. The Diners, Drive-ins as well as Dives are hence displayed on the map as well as every 2nd good listed beneath the map. The listing thought indicates how far each venue is from the searched location.

If yous conduct a diner from the map yous tin thought a YouTube video of Guy's review as well as photographs of the diner posted to Flickr. You tin every 2nd good read reviews of each diner submitted yesteryear readers of Diners, Drive-ins as well as Dives.

The Indiana Jones Inspired Google Map

Miles as well as Love is the website of a French duo who undertook an epic journeying across North, Central as well as South America. The website includes a neat animated Google Map that is plainly inspired past times the animated maps that characteristic inwards the Indiana Jones movie.

The Indiana Jones map featured an animated trouble that visualized the character's journeying to a greater extent than or less the world. The Miles & Love: Journey Through Americas map creates a like number amongst the Google Maps API. The map chronologically follows the 2 explorers' journey, showing you lot photos from each of the locations visited on this epic journeying through the Americas.

It's Snowfall Fun Amongst The Opened Upward Sledding Map

If you lot alive inwards the northeast of the USA together with thence why non celebrate the recent snowfall yesteryear using together with contributing to WYNC's Sledding Spots map?

You tin purpose the map to add together the place of your favorite sledding spots. You tin add together a review of the chosen gradient together with fifty-fifty add together a photograph of the loma inwards query to hand other users a ameliorate thought of the thrills it promises. Of degree you lot tin likewise purpose the map to uncovering neat sledding spots nearby.

Tweeting Happy Novel Year

Tweeting "Happy New Year" is an interesting map from Twitter showing the progress of 'Happy novel year' Tweets, inwards dissimilar languages, equally the novel twelvemonth began merely about the world.

The map shows where in addition to when dissimilar languages peaked during New Year's Eve. Line graphs for dissimilar languages are displayed nether the map, which permit you lot to thought where in addition to when the languages peaked on Twitter.

The trouble graphs lucifer to lines of longitude on the map. So, for example, if you lot mouse-over the altitude inwards the Portuguese 'feliz ano novo' you lot tin run into that the phrase was almost oft posted past times Brazilian Twitter users.


The #happynewyear tweetmap has similar a shot recorded over i in addition to one-half 1000000 'Happy New Year' messages sent merely about the world.

The map uses a non bad marking clustering solution that shows the release of Twitter messages at dissimilar locations. You tin zoom inwards on the map to thought the private markers. You tin likewise thought all the posted Tweets equally a oestrus map to run into where inwards the globe Twitter users posted the almost 'happy novel year' messages.

Maps Are Pop Alongside Nyt Readers

Maps appear to live on becoming to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than pop on the web. This is confirmed today past times the unloosen of the Most Visited Content of 2013 past times the New York Times. The New York Times's listing of their most pop online articles of concluding twelvemonth includes ii map features.


In fact the most pop characteristic on the NYT concluding twelvemonth was How Y’all, Youse together with You Guys Talk. This interactive characteristic asks yous a serial of questions nigh your pronunciation together with role of for sure words together with from the answers creates a personal dialect map. The resulting heatmap shows yous which areas of the U.S.A. convey the most like dialect to you.


Also inward the New York Times listing of its summit x online stories was the Site of the Explosions at the Boston Marathon - Map. As business office of its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings the NYT created this static 'bird's eye' aerial persuasion of Boylston St inward Boston. The map shows the place of the ii bomb explosions together with the marathon finishing line.

The Bozeman Criminal Offense Reaction

There is an episode of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory inwards which the grapheme Sheldon decides to relocate to Bozeman, Montana, afterwards his bird is broken into together with robbed.

One of the reasons Sheldon has for choosing Bozman for his novel abode is because of its depression levels of crime. Of floor the kickoff affair that happens to Sheldon on his arrival inwards the metropolis is that he is relieved of all his possessions past times a local criminal.

What Sheldon failed to create was consult the Bozeman Crime Data map. Using the map Sheldon could convey identified together with avoided the city's criminal offence hotspots, past times fourth dimension of twenty-four hr menses together with past times twenty-four hr menses of the week. He could convey every mo good queried the map to persuasion criminal offence rates past times type of crime.

Californians Are Sporting Gods

I came across 2 maps today that seem to advise that Californians are the athletic giants of the United States. Business Insider created this map of the gilt medals won past times athletes from each province inwards all the modern Olympic games (since 1924).

The States With The Most Olympic Gold Medals map, at offset glance, appears to examine that "California is the nearly athletic province inwards the country". This is backed upwards past times this map of college football game players from Mode.

The Mode Where Football Players Call Home map visualize where college football game players come upwards from. The map for sure shows that a lot of college footballers come upwards from California.

However both these maps are expert examples of why yous should normalize for population when creating these sort of heatmaps. California is the nearly populous province inwards the USA. Therefore if nosotros practice whatsoever sort of heatmap, whether for crime, the nearly millionaires or the nearly people living inwards poverty, if nosotros don't normalize for population density as well as thence nosotros would await California to charge per unit of measurement fairly highly - only because it has the nearly people.

In fact later on a quick search on Google I establish this obesity heatmap of the USA. So nosotros directly detect ourselves inwards the foreign province of affairs where Californians are at the same fourth dimension both fat as well as sporting gods.

Actually the Where Football Players Come From map does allow us to stance a 'per capita' map. Here's the map for the discover of college footballers from each province later on the information is normalized for population.

Perhaps Californians aren't such sporting gods later on all.

The Maps Of The Week

This Geologic Map of the Grand Canyon wins the prize for the most gorgeous map of the week. The map uses the Leaflet mapping platform alongside USGS information to create an interactive geologic map of the Grand Canyon.

If you lot mouse-over the map the make-up of the geologic strata at that place is automatically displayed on the map. If you lot click on the map it scrolls off the page to acquaint a to a greater extent than detailed breakdown of the geographic strata at the selected location.


I similar the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland as well as I similar Russia. But which is better? There's alone 1 agency to to notice out ...

MapFight!

MapFight is a fun lilliputian application that allows you lot to compare the size of whatsoever 2 states, countries or continents. Just bespeak 2 locations from the 2 drop-down menus as well as 2 unlike colored maps volition seem superimposed on each other.

The maps render a handy visual guide to the size of the chosen 2 countries. MapFight likewise tells you lot how many times bigger the larger reason is inwards comparing to the smaller country.


Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent inquiry newspaper claiming a link betwixt the measles vaccination as well as autism proved to survive an international wellness disaster. Many parents or as well as so the globe refused the vaccination for their children leading to a ascent inwards measles inwards many countries.

While this map of Vaccine Preventable Outbreaks starts inwards 1998 as well as thus doesn't demonstrate the virtually immediate huge increase inwards measles later Wakefield's newspaper it does demonstrate some balance detrimental effects of the paper, equally many parents are yet refusing to accept their children immunized against measles.

Of course of report the ascent inwards measles is non the alone tragedy visualized past times this Google Map. The map plots global outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, as well as other diseases that are easily preventable past times cheap as well as effective vaccines.


I'm a large fan of the e'er fascinating Etymology Maps thread on Reddit. The thread features give-and-take maps, maps that visualize 1 mutual give-and-take inwards all the unlike languages of Europe. For example, 'Christmas' inwards European languages, 'Meat' inwards European languages as well as 'Clock' inwards European languages.

James Trimble is likewise a large fan of the Reddit thread as well as patch browsing the maps had a flake of an epiphany. He realized that you lot could purpose the Google Translate API alongside D3 to create an interactive Etymology Map that allows you lot to visualize whatsoever give-and-take that you lot desire inwards all the unlike European languages.

The termination is the European Word Translator. H5N1 map that uses the Google Translate API to demonstrate you lot the European translations of whatsoever word. Just type a give-and-take into the search box as well as you lot tin post away thought on the D3 map all the translations of the give-and-take inwards all the European countries.

The Terminate Of The Route On Street View

The Atlantic used the Hyperlapse Street View animation application to exercise this video of a simulated route trip to the edges of Street View coverage only about the world.

Where the Road Ends takes you lot on a virtual tour of the limits of Street View on Google Maps, to the  "borders, shorelines, dead ends together with overlooks from New Zealand to Svalbard, from Alaska to South Africa".

Putting Birmingham's Fine Art On The Map

The Birmingham Art Map is a Google Map displaying the locations of the latest fine art exhibitions as well as events happening inwards Birmingham. The map shows the locations of electrical flow as well as upcoming events inwards the city's fine art galleries, studios as well as other world spaces.

Full details of venues displayed on the map are listed nether the map, amongst details of opening times as well as links to the venue websites. Each listing nether the map includes a clever piddling map mark icon that y'all tin click to discovery the venue's place on the map. Click on the mark icon as well as the webpage scrolls dorsum to the map as well as the venue's data window opens on the map to highlight its location.

It's Snowfall Fun Amongst The Opened Upward Sledding Map

If you lot alive inwards the northeast of the USA together with thence why non celebrate the recent snowfall yesteryear using together with contributing to WYNC's Sledding Spots map?

You tin purpose the map to add together the place of your favorite sledding spots. You tin add together a review of the chosen gradient together with fifty-fifty add together a photograph of the loma inwards query to hand other users a ameliorate thought of the thrills it promises. Of degree you lot tin likewise purpose the map to uncovering neat sledding spots nearby.

Styling Google Maps

Map Stylr is a novel Google Maps API Styled Maps sorcerer that tin help yous practice a unique way for your ain Google Maps.

Map Stylr includes the Styled Maps sorcerer as well as a showcase of styles created yesteryear users of the site. The Map Editor allows yous to customize the presentation of the measure Google base of operations maps, changing the visual display of such elements equally roads, parks, as well as built-up areas.

Instead of using the Map Editor tool yous tin purpose the Map Stylr 'showcase' to select from styles created yesteryear other map developers. If yous notice a way that yous similar inwards the showcase yous tin only cutting & glue the way JSON code into your ain Google Maps creations.


If yous desire a overnice map way for your Google Map but don't desire to become to the endeavor of creating your ain unique way as well as therefore yous tin notice some neat map styles on Snazzy Maps. Snazzy Maps is a repository of dissimilar color schemes for Google Maps. You tin browse through the many instance map styles on Snazzy Maps yesteryear the 'most popular' as well as 'most recent'. You tin also filter the maps shown yesteryear a let out of useful tags, such equally 'dark', 'light', 'two-tone' etc.

Once yous notice a map way that yous similar yous tin click on its championship as well as select handgrip of the way array. Snazzy Maps fifty-fifty provides an selection to download a uncomplicated instance of each style. Map developers tin contribute to the repository yesteryear adding map styles that they convey created themselves. Developers who regularly purpose the Google Maps API should definitely bookmark Snazzy Maps equally a useful resource.


Designmodo has also created a overnice Google Maps styled maps wizard. Flat UI Maps allows yous to play amongst as well as practice Google Map styles using Designmodo's apartment UI framework.

The sorcerer is a handy tool for anyone who wants to experiment amongst a apartment UI way inwards their Google Maps projects. It allows the user to select the colors of map features yesteryear only selecting the colors from a serial of drop-down menus. Once yous are happy amongst your created way yous tin select handgrip of the JSON to add together to your Maps API Javascript file.


Think Tank has also released a Custom Google Maps Style Tool, that lets yous play approximately amongst the colors of the Google Maps map tiles as well as generate the code that yous postulate to practice a custom Google Maps style. 

When yous are happy amongst the await of the map yous tin as well as therefore only cutting & glue the way code, which is generated beneath the tool.


The advertising means stadt.werk has created a sorcerer that lets yous pattern your map way inwards the familiar HEX RGB colors. The Google Maps Colorizr conveniently transfers your HEX RGB colors to the HSL colors used yesteryear Google Maps as well as allows yous to cutting as well as glue the code of your finished map style.

The Google Map Colorizr fifty-fifty has a dynamic URL. So if yous desire to enquire someone's sentiment most a particluar map way yous tin mail them a link.


Google themselves convey created their ain Styled Maps Wizard. The sorcerer allows developers to conform the colors of private map elements as well as practice the JSON code that tin as well as therefore endure used amongst the Google Maps API.