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.