Maps Of The Week

The Battle of Antietam was the showtime major battle inward the American Civil War to accept house on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle inward American history, resulting inward 22,717 dead, wounded, as well as missing on both sides combined.

The Civil War Trust's Battle of Antietam Animated Map is a lovingly produced video of the bloodiest solar daytime inward American history. The video includes re-enactment footage with a set out of animated maps that recount the attacks as well as counterattacks yesteryear both sides inward this bloody battle.


The site too includes a set out of interactive 360 aeroplane panoramic tours of or as well as thus of the of import battlefield locations. After watching the video map of the battle it is fascinating to hold out able to sentiment the 360 tours as well as piece of work a showtime mortal sentiment of the battlefield on the ground.


Trafficways is a wonderful collection of beautiful map layers on 1 OpenStreetMap map. The maps include visualizations of air flights, Flickr photos, the U.S. of A. census data, GPS lines & speed as well as a whole lot more.

The map too includes a set out of options that permit you lot to refine the appearance of the dissimilar map layers. The visualization options include brightness as well as gamma controls as well as options to suit the set out of dots used inward presenting the mapped data.


One of the around shared maps on social media this calendar week was Stephanie May's Rental Housing Affordability inward San Francisco. The map shows how many full-time minimum wage jobs you lot postulate to afford a 2 sleeping accommodation apartment inward each of San Francisco's neighborhoods.

Let's merely nation that if you lot desire a apartment inward Mission Bay you lot amend start applying for a few to a greater extent than jobs.

The Google Maps Of The Week

I practise dearest a skillful animate beingness tracking map, as well as then LifeWatch's plane tracking maps gibe the nib nicely. LifeWatch are currently tracking xxx gulls as well as march harriers using GPS units as well as CartoDB powered Google Maps. 

Unfortunately the alive real-time map is no longer of much operate every bit the birds convey flown S for the wintertime as well as are out of attain of the project's antennas. However LifeWatch has created or as well as then interesting maps using the information tracks from the saltation as well as summer.

These include an intensity map of Eric, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, breeding inwards the colony of Zeebrugge. The map shows Eric's movements over 2 months, revealing his most visited locations, including his frequent day-trips to Bruges. Using the same information LifeWatch every bit good created a map showing his paths for every day. In this map Eric's daily flying paths are colored past times twenty-four lx minutes catamenia to present how his flying blueprint changed over the 2 months.

Vizzuality's Torque library was every bit good used to practise a fascinating animated map showing all Eric's movements over the 2 months inwards but 150 seconds.


This calendar week Amtrak launched a real-time map of its to a greater extent than than 300 daily trains. The Amtrak Track a Train map shows the alive lay of all the network's trains.

Passengers tin attain the sack search for private trains past times develop divulge or develop advert or search for private station. If you lot direct a train's marking on the map you lot tin attain the sack stance details nearly its electrical flow speed, side past times side station as well as estimated fourth dimension or arrival.

Users tin attain the sack every bit good click on private stations to stance station details as well as the station address. 


One of the effects of the Federal Government Shutdown is that 800,000 federal workers convey been indefinitely furloughed without pay. The Washington Post has created a Google Map to present how the regime shutdown effects federal workers across the United States.

The Federal Government Shutdown Map shows the peak 100 tube areas amongst regime as well as armed services areas every bit a per centum of the full workforce. The map markers are sized inwards proportion to the size of the divulge of federal workers (as a per centum of full employment).

If you lot direct whatever of the markers on the map you lot tin attain the sack stance the full divulge of federal workers, the full divulge of the workforce as well as the per centum of federal employees inwards the selected tube area.

If you lot are a non-essential federal worker living inwards the Washington DC expanse you lot mightiness desire to cheque out this map that shows the locations of businesses offering exceptional deals for furloughed federal workers. 

London's Pollution On Google Maps

The London Air Quality Network provides information close air character inwards as well as approximately London.

The site includes a Google Map that allows Londoners to sentiment air character from monitoring stations positioned approximately the capital. The stations collect information on London's air character twice a solar daytime as well as the map is updated hourly.

The London Air Quality Network likewise includes a Google Map of the annual hateful pollution inwards London during 2008 as well as a map that shows which areas of London failed to come across the Great Britain government's Air Quality Strategy Objectives during 2012.

As good every bit the traditional Google Maps visualisations of air pollution London Air has a rattling cool 3d Map of Air Pollution inwards London. This 3d map seems to convey been approximately for a piece because it visualises air character inwards London inwards 2003, alongside predictions for the years 2004-10.

Google Static Maps Api Wizards

If you lot don't postulate a fully interactive slippy map you lot tin purpose the Google Static Maps API to embed a Google Maps ikon on your spider web page without requiring JavaScript or whatever dynamic page loading.

The API is fairly elementary to implement as well as creates a map based on URL parameters. The URL parameters tin live on quite long notwithstanding which tin Pb to some confusion. I've ever institute it easiest to purpose Google's Static Maps API Wizard when I postulate to create a static map. The sorcerer allows you lot to lead a location, the base of operations map type you lot require as well as define the size of your static map. It as well as therefore creates the URL for you lot to embed your static map.

Unfortunately the sorcerer isn't brilliantly designed. That's why you lot powerfulness desire to purpose Katy Decorah's novel Static Map Maker instead. The Static Map Maker likewise allows you lot to easily create a static map as well as generate the URL for a publish of dissimilar ikon formats. The sorcerer is a lot easier to purpose than Google's ain sorcerer as well as involves a lot less needless scrolling upwards as well as downwardly the page to stance the changes that you lot brand to your static map.

Both Google's ain sorcerer as well as the Static Map Maker both ignore the Styled Map options inward the Google Static Maps API. These options let you lot to lead which map features look on your static map as well as fifty-fifty let you lot to customize the colors of map features. There is soundless a picayune niche in that place for somebody to create a Static Maps Wizard that allows you lot to play around amongst map styles.

Street View likewise has its ain Static Street View Image API. H5N1 few years dorsum I created this really elementary Static Street View Wizard to generate the URL to embed a static Street View.

The Historic Menses Of Chicago's Buildings Mapped

Mapping the Age of Buildings for like maps of New York, Portland, Reykjavík, the whole of the Netherlands together with Ljubljana.

The Map To Nerd Heaven

Vasile Cotovanu has created the map to nerd sky in addition to it involves taking the train. Vasile's real-time simulator of the Swiss runway network has long been 1 of my favorite maps. It is at 1 time fifty-fifty better.

The SBB Network is a real-time map of the Swiss runway organization based on the network's published timetable. The map allows you lot to persuasion animated trains moving inwards real-time on a Google Map. Actually until today the map has allowed you lot to lookout adult man map markers moving simply about on a map. Only now you lot tin persuasion actual trains.

Vasile's latest update to the map way that when you lot switch to satellite persuasion the map icons alter to images of existent trains moving simply about the map. The screenshot higher upward doesn't create the map justice. In the screenshot you lot tin simply brand out 3 trains. The trains are genuinely much easier to alternative out on the map - because they are moving.

My tip for using the map is to click on an private train. This loads an data window most the selected train's schedule. The data window includes a 'Follow' button. Click the follow push to perish on the map centered on your selected train!

For at 1 time this existent prepare characteristic is solely available inwards the expanse simply about the Zürich Oerlikon area. Zürich Oerlikon is 1 of the busiest prepare stations inwards Switzerland. There is a prepare passing through the station every 2-3 minutes in addition to then you lot should move able to honour enough of trains to follow.

As I ever suspected the journeying to nerd sky is past times train.

The Google Maps Tweetbot

Tweet a transit inquiry to this Google Maps based road finder in addition to yous volition have a link to a Google Map that automagically displays your route.

Plan Paris Metro interactif industrial plant actually good every moment a traditional Paris Metro road finder. You tin larn into whatsoever ii destinations into the application in addition to sentiment a suggested road shown on a Google Map, You likewise kicking the bucket step-by-step directions explaining how to compete your journey.

What I similar best close this map yet is the amazing Tweetbot characteristic that allows yous to asking a road via Twitter. Post a message on Twitter to '@vasyenmetro' in addition to squall ii Metro stations in addition to yous volition automatically have a reply including a link to your suggested route. Messages require to live on submitted inwards the bird '@vasyenmetro station1/station2' e.g. '@vasyenmetro hakeim/blanc'.

Monopoly Street Sentiment Game

Over the weekend I idea it would endure interesting to practise a Street View gallery of all the locations used inward the Monopoly game. Unfortunately the locations inward Atlantic City that inspired the master copy game convey pathetic character or no Street View imagery on Google Maps.

If you lot desire to convey expect at the Atlantic City locations Scouting New York has or then interesting photographs inward their article on What The Monopoly Properties Look Like In Real Life. After my initial disappointment at the pathetic character Street View inward Atlantic City I decided to switch my attending to the London version of the board game.

Creating a gallery of Street Views of the London version of Monopoly was tardily plenty precisely the number was a fiddling boring. To spice the gallery upward a fiddling I hence decided to accuse rent for each Street View viewed. Each fourth dimension you lot province on a Street View inward my Street View Game you lot are deducted a rent based on the belongings value.

Just charging players rent is a fiddling unfair then I convey likewise added a few community cards that laissez passer players the chance to win or then coin every bit well.

Have a fiddling play of my Street View game precisely practise scream upward to come upward dorsum to Google together with pay what you lot halt upward owing me past times using the tip appal on the right.

The Due South African Point Map

Dot maps of the USA, showing population distribution past times race convey proved really pop recently. For example, the Racial Dot Map of America is a fascinating insight into the geographic distribution, population density, together with racial multifariousness inwards the USA.

South Africa straight off has its ain racial point distribution map. Mapping South Africa amongst Dot Distribution shows racial distribution across South Africa together with too the kickoff languages spoken, based on information from the 2011 South African census.

Zooming into a metropolis on the map reveals how the legacy of apartheid is a acre yet divided geographically together with socially past times race. Adam Frith, the creator of the map has too created a like map based on the 2001 census data. Depressingly, comparison the 2001 together with 2011 maps over again reveals that the stride of racial integration appears to live on moving really piece of cake inwards South Africa.

The Runners In Addition To Cyclists Road Finder

Strava, the pop tracking app for cyclists too runners, has released a novel route finding too route creation tool called Route Builder.

The application allows joggers too cyclists to practice or discovery pop routes betwixt whatever 2 (or more) locations. Users tin add together 2 or to a greater extent than points to the Route Builder Google Map too directly thought a suggested route.

Route Builder includes 2 options to adapt the suggested route past times 'popularity' too 'elevation'. The popularity pick allows yous to thought the nearly pop routes betwixt 2 locations based on Strava's entire database of users' tracked routes.


For example, inwards the map higher upward yous tin run across how selecting 'popularity' returns a longer, to a greater extent than attractive route that takes yous through the common rather than the shorter route along a busy road. The altitude pick volition exactly render the flattest possible route.

Each route suggested past times Route Builder includes distance markers too an overview of the route's length, altitude orbit too the estimated fourth dimension to consummate the route. An altitude graph is also provided too thus that yous tin thought the altitude profile of the entire route.

If yous are interested inwards how Route Builder was created Strava has written upward a actually fascinating post looking at the mechanics too algorithms behind the application. Introducing Route Builder explores how the A* algorithm (shortest path finder), geohashes (an algorithm for lat/long positions) too algorithms for popularity too altitude direct keep been optimized to practice a real fast too effective route builder.

San Francisco's Literature Mapped

'Occasionally a cable machine passed, trundling heavily, amongst a strident whirring of jostled drinking glass ...' - from McTeague (1899) a new past times Frank Norris

Ever since the days of the Californian gilt rush San Francisco has held a particular lay inwards the myths as well as literature of America. To celebrate San Francisco's condition every bit 1 of the close vibrant literary cities inwards the footing the San Francisco Chronicle has created The Bay Area Literature Map.

The map features locations of booksellers, writers' passages related to locations inwards the city, literary landmarks as well as highlights 300 authors who alive inwards the Bay Area. The map likewise shows the dates as well as locations for events taking placing inwards the metropolis during this month's Litquake literary festival.


During this month's Litquake you lot tin dismiss likewise accept a cycling tour of the city's literary history using the Bikes to Books map. This 7.1 mile cycling tour takes inwards the 12 San Francisco streets named for authors as well as artists as well as a release of other of import locations inwards the city's literary heritage.

Google Maps Adds Multiple Directions Only However Sucks

Google Maps has addressed i of the master copy complaints nearly the terribly designed novel Google Maps. It is straightaway rolling out the pick to add together extra stops to driving directions.

Now when you lot inquire Google Maps for directions you lot volition meet a '+' pick that allows you lot to add together stops to your route. I'd honey to straightaway take directions from my 5 Reasons the New Google Maps Sucks listing simply fifty-fifty though multiple directions has straightaway been addressed the whole directions interface is however a consummate mess.


Click through on the 'list all steps' pick as well as you lot instruct a step-by-step (or turn-by-turn) guide to your journey. However if you lot scroll downwards through the steps the map disappears off the screen. Clicking on a footstep inward the directions guide does highlight the right place on the map - simply you lot can't genuinely meet that because the map is off the screen.

Upcoming Events

On a to a greater extent than positive depository fiscal establishment complaint the novel Google Maps straightaway has a overnice novel characteristic that allows you lot to click on a music, sport or theatre venue on the map as well as thought upcoming events at that location. When you lot straightaway search for a venue on Google Maps you lot should meet an Upcoming Events link that volition let you lot to thought all upcoming events at the venue.

Armistice 24-Hour Interval Maps

Armistice Day is commemorated today to grade the armistice signed at the terminate of World War I. The armistice took number at the 'eleventh hr of the eleventh hateful solar daytime of the eleventh month' of 1918.

More than ix 1000000 people were killed inward World War I, devastating communities inward towns too cities across the world. Two Canadian maps, showing the addresses of soldiers killed during the country of war inward Toronto too Ottawa, truly assistance to pick out how the country of war affected close every street inward these ii cities.

The Global News Map shows the addresses of 2,910 soldiers who died inward the First World War, who had mappable addresses inward the metropolis too surrounding communities (the actual number who died was truly over 4,000). Just past times looking at the screenshot of the map higher upwards yous tin tell that at that spot was hardly a household unit of measurement inward the metropolis who didn't lose a father, husband, blood brother or vecino inward the war.

The CBC News Map of Ottawa maps soldiers who died inward the First World War amongst a personal or side past times side of kin address that could live on located inside the city. At to the lowest degree 776 Ottawans lost their lives inward the war, 495 who had mappable addresses. The map over again shows how whole communities were devastated past times World War I.

Own Your Ain Norwegian Fjord

I've ever been a huge fan of Slartibartfast's terraforming efforts together with bring dreamed of the hateful solar daytime that I could ain a footling slice of his best operate on the Norwegian Fjords. Now that hateful solar daytime has come upwards at last!

Terrafab is cracking map application that allows you lot to exercise the 3d printer files to exercise your ain 3d model of whatsoever occupation of Norway. Even if you lot don't desire to ain a 3d model of a Norwegian fjord you lot bring to banking concern tally out this map simply to sentinel the 3d model persuasion update inwards real-time equally you lot choose dissimilar areas on the map.

Make certain you lot equally good click on the 'Get this model 3d-printed' to persuasion the spinning version of your selected 3d view.

The Map Of Life Inward The Netherlands

What happens when nosotros all accept straight as well as opened upwardly insight into our cities? OSCity provides a platform for Dutch citizens to access spatial information that previously has alone been available to local authorities, question institutes as well as urban planners.

The novel platform OScity, currently inwards beta, plots how infinite is used inwards the Netherlands as well as provides users amongst tardily access to information nearly levels of flooding, heritage sites, business office space, liberate energy consumption, as well as much more.

The OSCity platform is built upon the Google Maps API exactly employs opened upwardly data, GIS techniques, infographics, as well as interactive simulations to analyse spatial patterns as well as allows for the ‘discovery’ of innovative spatial scenarios for neighbourhoods that are beingness restructured.

There are v principal sections to OSCity, each department visualizing of import spatial information nearly life inwards the Netherlands. The 'commons' department explores where people alive as well as function inwards the Netherlands as well as the influence of menage prices, income as well as other factors on social planning. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 department on 'water land' looks at the jeopardy of flooding inwards the Netherlands as well as at flooding prevention methods.


The 'cultural heritage' department examines the historic menstruum of Dutch buildings as well as the spatial distribution as well as density of national monuments. 'Vacant buildings' explores the distribution of vacant offices, the toll of business office real-estate as well as the potential for converting commercial holding into residential property. The 'energy' department visualizes the liberate energy efficiency of Dutch buildings.

OSCity likewise includes a powerful search component division that allows users to visualize rut maps for a huge divulge of unlike queries. For example, it is possible to search for the proximity of locations to 'schools', 'doctors', 'supermarkets', 'museums' etc and/or search for a broad arrive at of demographic spatial distributions.

Mapping The Super Zips

The Washington Post has mapped the zip-code areas inwards the USA that seat highest for income in addition to college education. The map displays the nation’s 650 Super Zips, those are the zip-code areas where people seat highest on a combination of income in addition to education.

The Washington: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 World Apart map shows a long corridor of affluence running from New York to Washington DC. The accompanying article from the Post looks inwards item at the 3rd of zip-code areas inwards D.C. which seat inwards the meridian five percent for income in addition to education.

Users of the map tin search the map past times whatsoever zip-code to honor out the zip-code ranking for their area. If you lot click on a zip-code surface area on the map you lot tin persuasion the median family income in addition to the per centum of college graduates inwards the area. It is too possible to persuasion a breakdown of the percentages inwards each family grouping in addition to the percentages inwards each educational attainment group.

Street Sentiment Lands Inwards Swaziland

Swazi beehive huts

Today Swaziland became the 4th African province to have Street View imagery on Google Maps, joining South Africa, Kingdom of Lesotho together with Botswana.



Hat-tip: Google Sightseeing

The Map Of Human Diseases

The Tapei Medical University in addition to the University of New South Wales has used the Google Maps API to map the relationships betwixt dissimilar human diseases. The Disease Map is an endeavour to visualize the associations betwixt dissimilar human disorders.

Each circle on the map represents a unmarried human disorder every mo classified yesteryear the International Classification of Diseases. The circle sizes reverberate the prevalence of a illness inward a given age/gender grouping in addition to the colours fit to i of 17 specific categories of diseases.

Animating Big Information On Maps

CartoDB's Torque allows developers to homecoming large, time-series information on a map inwards the client. The library effectively provides a unproblematic method to animate large amounts of information on a map.

H5N1 proficient demonstration of Torque inwards activity is this Amsterdam: Fire Engine Callouts map. The map uses the Torque library to animate 62,415 burn downward brigade call-outs inwards Amsterdam betwixt Jan 2006 together with September 2010.

Another superb event of a Torque driven map is the amazing Navy of WWI animated visualization. This visualization maps 1 ane 1000 m WWI Royal Navy locations from earlier the outbreak of World War I until 1925.


The Torque library was too used to practice a fascinating animated map showing ane seagull's movements over 2 months. LifeWatch compressed 2 months of information into 120 seconds to animate the seagull's movements inwards together with to a greater extent than or less Zeebrugge inwards Belgium.

Street Sentiment Lands Inwards Iceland

Republic of Iceland forthwith has Street View! Coverage seems to hold upward pretty extensive, amongst all the major Icelandic towns forthwith having panoramic imagery on Google Maps.

Iceland's fantastic volcanic countryside too seems to convey pretty skillful coverage. So if you lot fancy a quite Fri night, charge upward Google Maps, choose handgrip of the yellowish pegman too foremost searching the Icelandic landscape for volcanoes too geysers.




 Via: Google Sightseeing

Ramping Upwards The Tension Amongst Torque

Ten minutes subsequently posting well-nigh the Torque library I noticed than CartoDB has officially released the tool for all their registered users.

To accompany the spider web log post announcing the loose CartoDB has also created a groovy animated map of all novel CartoDB users that signed-up betwixt belatedly August as well as early on Nov 2013.


CartoDB users tin laissez passer on the axe similar a shot implement Torque inwards their maps straight from the CartoDB user interface. One of the start examples is this amazing map animating 3.2 meg line-fishing boat locations some the UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland inwards fifteen minutes.

Cyclone Phailin Crisis Maps In Addition To Someone Finder

Cyclone Phailin is due to brand landfall roughly the metropolis of Gopalpur inwards Bharat afterward today. Winds are expected to attain upwards to 167 mph in addition to a tempest surge of at to the lowest degree 3m (10ft) is expected when the cyclone reaches land.

Google has released a Crisis Map for the area, showing the predicted path of the cyclone in addition to the place of shelters & hospitals. Crisis Mappers has likewise released a Google Crisis Map, which shows the place of hospitals in addition to shelters in addition to inwards add-on shows the place of command rooms in addition to tempest surge information. The tempest surge layer shows when the tempest surge is expected to hitting dissimilar locations along the coast in addition to the predicted peak of the surge.

Google has likewise released Google Person Finder for those who are worried close friends in addition to relatives living inwards the cyclone's path. Google Person Finder allows anyone to post data close the condition of individuals or to search for the condition of relatives or friends affected past times Cyclone Phailin.

The Historic Current Of The World's Buildings Mapped

Russia's Mercator has joined inwards this year's tendency to map the ages of all the world's buildings. Mercator's Houses of Moscow maps the ages of all Moscow's buildings.

The map shows a distinct designing inwards Moscow's development. The centre of the metropolis retains many of its pre-revolution historical buildings in addition to remains mainly largely untouched past times afterward developments. Modern developments from the 20th in addition to 21st centuries appear to hold out fairly evenly distributed across the residual of the city.

The Age of Greater Reykjavík is a map that shows the historic menstruum of the Icelandic capital's buildings. The darker the color of the edifice on the map the older it is.

You tin mouse-over whatever of the buildings on the map to reckon its historic menstruum of structure in addition to address.


The Five Boroughs: Building Age NYC uses NYC's Pluto information to map the historic menstruum of all buildings inwards the 5 boroughs of New York City. That is an incredible 1,053,713 buildings inwards total. The map is a nifty resources to tending y'all uncovering New York's hidden historical buildings.

Block past times Block, Brooklyn’s Past in addition to Present uses the same information to present the historic menstruum of Booklyn's buildings.

CitySDK's map shows the historic menstruum of nigh 10 1 M one thousand buildings inwards the Netherlands. It is a nifty mapped visualization of a really large information set, which provides a nifty tool for exploring dissimilar patterns of urban evolution inwards Dutch towns.

The iBag Viewer is an interactive map of the same Dutch edifice historic menstruum information set. In my sentiment the pick of colors inwards the CitySDK map larn inwards a much nicer map to await at, withal the iBag Viewer includes ii actually handy controls; a appointment slide command in addition to a map opacity control.

The appointment slider allows y'all to filter the results shown on the map past times edifice age. You tin thence purpose the command to uncovering out where all the oldest buildings are inwards whatever Dutch town. The map opacity command also allows y'all to arrange the opacity of the OpenStreetMap map tiles.


Ljubljana Building Ages is a map of edifice ages inwards Ljubljana, Slovenia. Buildings on the map are colored past times historic menstruum in addition to a trace of piece of job graph provides a quick visual overview of the ages of the city's buildings.

The Ljubljana map was inspired past times the Portland, Oregon: The Age of a City. This MapBox map colors 544,033 buildings inwards Portland past times age.

If y'all alive inwards Chicago in addition to so y'all tin banking concern agree out Wired's MapLab map of Chicago's Building Ages.

Street Sentiment Disputation Shift

I've been puzzling for a spell nearly how to add together a contestation shift upshot to Google Maps Street View using CSS filters inwards Chrome. What has stumped me inwards the by was how to practice a slope blur that when applied to a Street View would add together a contestation shift upshot to the panoramic image.

Today I had a piffling eureka 2nd when I realized 1 solution would last to overlay 1 Street View layer on superlative of around other Street View of the same scene. You tin thus piece of job CSS filter transparency to practice a masking effect. If you lot add together this transparency filter to a horizontal band inwards the superlative Street View you lot tin meet the bottom Street View through the band.

Then all you lot bring to practice is add together a CSS blur filter to the superlative Street View. The upshot is a Street View that is blurred apart from 1 horizontal strip, creating a reasonable contestation shift effect. You tin meet the outcome on this Street View Tilt Shift picture (you volition likely entirely last able to meet this if you lot sentiment the page inwards the Chrome browser).

If you lot pan the Street View inwards this page entirely 1 of the Street Views volition move. You could add together an lawsuit listener to the superlative Street View thus that when you lot deed the superlative Street View the bottom Street View besides moves. I haven't done this hither thus you lot tin to a greater extent than clearly meet how the masking upshot works.

You tin meet other experiments using CSS filters amongst Google Maps Street View at Here Comes the Sun and Blurrd. Both of these pages 1 time again volition likely entirely piece of job inwards the Chrome browser.

The Google Maps Of The Week

This calendar week I was actually impressed alongside OSCity, a really powerful demonstration of how the Google Maps API tin destination endure used to make users slowly access to world data.

The map plots how infinite is used inwards the Netherlands as well as provides users alongside slowly access to information close levels of flooding, heritage sites, constituent space, release energy consumption, as well as much more. Not solely does OSCity render 5 interesting guides to life inwards the Netherlands it includes a search pick that allows users to visualize estrus maps for a huge issue of dissimilar spatial queries.


Strava, the pop tracking app for cyclists as well as runners, has released a novel road finding as well as road creation tool called Route Builder.

The application allows joggers as well as cyclists to create or detect pop routes betwixt whatever ii (or more) locations. Users tin destination add together ii or to a greater extent than points to the Route Builder Google Map as well as immediately stance a suggested route. Route Builder includes ii options to adjust the suggested road past times 'popularity' as well as 'elevation'. The popularity pick allows y'all to stance the most pop routes betwixt ii locations based on Strava's entire database of users' tracked routes.

If y'all are interested inwards how Route Builder was created Strava has written upward a actually fascinating post service looking at the mechanics as well as algorithms behind the application. Introducing Route Builder explores how the A* algorithm (shortest path finder), geohashes (an algorithm for lat/long positions) as well as algorithms for popularity as well as summit convey been optimized to create a really fast as well as effective road builder. 


This calendar week I was also actually impressed past times a petty modify to the SSB Network simulator of the Swiss rail network. It may endure a petty modify but it makes a huge visual divergence to this real-time map of Swiss trains.

The SBB Network is a real-time map of the Swiss rail arrangement based on the network's published timetable. The map allows y'all to stance animated trains moving inwards real-time on a Google Map. Previously the map allowed y'all to scout map markers moving unopen to on a map. Now y'all tin destination stance actual trains.

The latest update to the map agency that when y'all switch to satellite stance the map icons modify to images of existent trains moving unopen to the map. What's non to like?

The Ultima Seven Google Map

Here on Google nosotros create similar our interactive game globe maps, whether that survive for recent game releases - such every bit the GTA v Map - or for ancient reckoner games instantly most lost inwards the mists of fourth dimension - similar the Ultima VII Google Map.

The Ultima VII map uses the Google Maps API to acquaint the globe of Britannia inwards all its isometric greatness. Using the map y'all tin dismiss explore the heavily guarded Castle Britannia, take in the Isle of Deeds together with locate the mysterious Spiritwood. The map likewise shows the locations of game characters, monsters together with other points of interest.

Those who go to Britannia should shout out back that amongst the moongates instantly broken, fifty-fifty amongst the best maps, at that topographic point is no agency to supply home.

The Google Maps Of The Week

The Election Atlas is a Google Map designed to supply insight into the 2013 mayoral election inward New York City.

The map visualizes the geographical vote portion for all the Democratic mayoral candidates who convey previously operate for citywide office. For comparing together with contrast, it likewise includes maps of recent gubernatorial together with presidential elections.

The map provides an interesting overview of where inward New York Bill de Biaso performed good inward the Democratic principal together with where he did non perform as good as the other Democratic nominees yesteryear together with present.


Subfocus has devised an ingeneous agency to promote his novel album 'Torus' yesteryear creating an impressive Street View game. Subfocus - Torus invloves next a serious of map related clues to respect thirteen shiny tori hidden closed to the world.

When you lot respect ane of the hidden shapes you lot are rewarded non solely amongst a great 3d spinning torus superimposed on a Google Maps Street View of the place precisely you lot likewise croak to psyche to ane of the tracks off the album.

Subfocus -Torus is apparently inspired yesteryear (and perhaps developed by) the as amazing Floating Shiny Knot. 


The Berliner Morgenpost has released a Google Map of the election results inward Berlin. The map shows the results inward each electoral ward together with the candidates from Berlin elected to the Bundestag.

Beneath the map are a release of filters to display dissimilar map views. These include links to sentiment where at that topographic point was a high turnout together with where the turnout was peculiarly low, where the results were real closed together with where the nearly voters voted differently at the local together with national level.

Polluting America's Schools

USA Today has published a especial study into the lawsuit of industrial pollution on schools together with the children who study there. For the study USA Today mapped the locations of nearly 128,000 schools together with used an EPA model to rail the path of pollution to scope upward one's demand heed the levels of toxic chemicals exterior each school.

Google Maps are used throughout the study to present the place of schools together with the place of polluting companies. Users tin click on private schools on the maps to thought the national grade of the schoolhouse inward damage of which percentile it resides inward for the levels of toxic chemicals institute exterior the school.

If you lot click on the school's cite inward its data window you lot tin thought a to a greater extent than detailed breakdown most the private school's exposure to cancer causing chemicals together with to other toxic chemicals. For each schoolhouse at that spot is besides a breakdown listing the chemicals most responsible for the toxicity exterior the schoolhouse together with the companies most responsible for the toxic pollution institute exterior the school.

Property Bubbles Bursting All Over The Uk

An Englishman's bedsit is his castle. Which is lucky because inwards the introduce housing marketplace bubble a bedsit is close all you lot are probable to last able to afford inwards the UK.

Illustreets has created an awesome animated Google Map of England in addition to Wales showing the monthly book of domicile sales yesteryear postcode from Jan 2009 to August 2013. The map provides a smashing instance of how the belongings marketplace inwards the U.K. has recovered since the start of 2009. The map equally good shows the seasonal patterns of belongings sales inwards the UK, dropping off inwards the wintertime months, peculiarly inwards January, in addition to ascent in 1 lawsuit again inwards the saltation in addition to summertime months.

Users tin conform the value of properties that this want to display on the map in addition to choose whatsoever postcode to persuasion a nautical chart showing median menage prices vs. monthly belongings sales.

All Dutch Buses On Google Maps

Recently nosotros bring seen all the buildings inward the Netherlands mapped past times historic menstruum of construction. Now nosotros bring a alive real-time map of all the buses inward the Netherlands.

Ovzoeker is a Google Map that shows inward real-time the set of buses belonging to a publish of Dutch transit companies. The buses on the map are color-coded to betoken which transit companionship they belong to. If you lot click on whatever i of the thousands of buses moving on this map you lot tin grade notice sentiment where it is heading in addition to how early on or belatedly it is running.

This isn't the get-go fourth dimension we've seen a alive real-time map of a country's whole transit network. In Switzerland you lot tin grade notice sentiment the whole Swiss runway network operating inward real-time at SBB Network. In the US of America you lot tin grade notice sentiment all of the Amtrak network on the Amtrak Track a Train map.

Tacloban Edifice Harm Mapped

The American Red Cross has mapped edifice impairment inward Tacloban, the working capital missive of the alphabet of the Philippine tell of Leyte. The map uses information gleaned from the outset rapid impairment assessment carried out shortly later Typhoon Haiyan past times the Copernicus Emergency Management Service.

The Copernicus European Monetary System analysis was carried out past times comparison satellite imagery from earlier as well as later the typhoon. The American Red Cross map colors the city's edifice footprints past times the estimated impairment suffered past times each building. The resulting map shows that hardly a edifice inward the urban meat has been left undamaged past times the typhoon.

You tin dismiss read to a greater extent than close the edifice impairment assessment procedure on the European Commission website as well as y'all tin dismiss donate to the American Red Cross' appeal here.

Every Sports Champaign Everywhere

Everyfield has gear upward itself the daunting describe of mapping every sports plain on Earth. To consummate the describe Everyfield needs your help. Register amongst Everyfield in addition to y'all tin laissez passer the sack map your local sports fields. Map a lot of sports fields in addition to y'all powerfulness fifty-fifty expire your mention to the meridian of the Everyfield leader board.

Everyfield uses the Google Maps API to render a oestrus map of all the sports fields mapped in addition to hence far unopen to the world. There is equally good a searchable map of all the fields which y'all tin laissez passer the sack search yesteryear place in addition to yesteryear your favorite sport. So if y'all are looking for a plain for a detail sport Everyfield should convey the answer.