Wednesday, February 23, 2022

The Christmas Themed Maps Of The Week


Chocolate companionship Thorntons has created a slap-up application that lets y'all post a magical online Christmas Card featuring Raymond Briggs' cute Snowman graphic symbol (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 is seen flight over their identify (using Google Maps satellite imagery) too fifty-fifty walks downward their street (using Street View).


The Wondrous Wellington Advent Calendar is too a wondrous interactive map, although y'all wouldn't know it exactly past times looking at it.

The Wellington, New Zealand Tourist Office has created a gorgeous looking online advent calendar featuring illustrations of good known landmarks some the city. Users tin explore the calendar to notice today's date, click on the engagement too uncovering a voucher that tin locomote redeemed at a Wellington business.

The calendar was created using the Leaflet JavaScript mapping library, but instead of using the green OpenStreetMap map tiles it has created a map from an instance of Wellington landmarks. The resultant is a beautiful looking Christmas drive promoting the urban meat of Wellington too local businesses.


Map Your Representatives is a handy application that helps y'all notice out who your political representatives are, from local councilor upward to the President himself, merely past times clicking on a Google Map.

Enter your zip-code or address into the search bar too a pivot volition locomote dropped on your location. The page volition therefore automatically scroll downward to expose all your local political representatives.

The map itself includes an attractive mask that creates a round down map. If y'all pan the map some the map marking remains inwards the view of the map too non on your searched for location. Simply click on the 'Update Location' push too the political representatives for the novel place volition locomote displayed on the map. 

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