The Maps Of The Week

You accept belike seen Hint.fm's beautiful Wind Map of the United States. You may likewise accept seen the Tokyo Wind Map, a similar animated map of real-time air current speeds too administration inward too only about Tokyo.

The developers behind the Tokyo Wind Map accept directly created an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than impressive visualization of close real-time global conditions conditions. Like Hint.fm too the Tokyo Wind Map, Earth uses D3.js to exercise an interactive map that displays air current speeds inward close real-time, alone this fourth dimension the map is a gorgeous 3d globe.


I'm a sucker for real-time animated maps, thus London on Trend was most for sure to characteristic inward this week's Maps of the Week. London on Trend perfectly captures the measurement of urban substance life inward the English linguistic communication upper-case alphabetic lineament through a alive real-time Google Map of photos submitted to Instagram inward London.

As presently every bit yous larn inward London on Trend Instagram photos laid out dropping on a Google Map of London. You tin dismiss too then only sit down dorsum too sentry every bit novel photos are continuously added to the map every bit Londoners submit photos to Instagram.


The championship of most shared map of the calendar week most larn to Empire.is. The United States of America of America has good over 700 armed forces bases across the planet alongside official facilities inward at to the lowest degree 37 countries. Empire.is is a map showing the place of United States of America of America armed forces installations, non alone inward the US but only about the world.

As good every bit mapping known United States of America of America armed forces installations Empire.es likewise provides aerial imagery of a large divulge of the bases, sourced from Google too Bing Maps.

The information for the armed forces locations is from the 2013 Base Structure Report too from sites reported past times journalists too geographers. The writer of the map says that at that topographic point are all the same many armed forces bases missing from the map.