The Mapping Our Basis Exhibition

The National Library of Commonwealth of Australia Mapping Our World exhibition is an chance to persuasion some rare in addition to unique maps from approximately the world. The exhibition is running from right away until x March 2014.

Even if you lot can't larn to Canberra to watch the exhibition inward somebody you lot tin all the same persuasion 7 of the maps from the exhibition inward a particular online application developed alongside ESRI Australia. The Mapping our World app allows you lot to zoom inward in addition to explore the maps in addition to the history behind these extraordinary cartographic documents.

The maps include the Ramsey Abbey Higden map from the 14th Century, the Fra Mauro Map of the World (1448–1453) in addition to the Jean Rotz Atlas (1542).

The H2o Sports Fan's Google Map

Obsurfation is a wonderfully good designed application that allows Aussie H2O sports enthusiasts to directly cheque conditions at their local beaches as well as waterways.

Surfers, boaters as well as other H2O sports fans tin run the Obsurfation Google Map to search for their favourite locations as well as thought cracking forecasts, air current observations, tide data as well as local conditions conditions.

Users tin cheque the conditions for today, tomorrow as well as the side past times side 5 days. For each of the swell, tide, air current as well as conditions indicators users tin swipe across the displayed charts to thought the conditions at unlike times.

Nsw Fires Mapped

With fires inwards New South Wales, Commonwealth of Australia all the same raging a country of emergency has immediately been declared. Google Crisis Response has released a NSW Bushfires Map.

The map shows the place of NSW fires. The lav map markers quest whether an emergency warning, a lookout adult man in addition to human activeness or an advice alarm has been issued inwards response. The map likewise visualizes burned areas via dark polygons.


The Australian Bushfire Map gathers in addition to displays information from multiple world agencies to hand a composite sentiment of lav incidents currently affecting Australia.

The map includes a number of options to refine the lav information displayed on the map. Of item role is the mightiness to sentiment today's hotspots based on satellite thermal detection.

Public Balance Rooms On Your Route

The Australian Government's Department of Social Services equally purpose of the National Continence Program has released the National Public Toilet Map. The map provides data on over 16,000 world toilets amongst data close accessibility, opening hours as well as facilities, such equally showers & infant change.

The National Toilet Map uses the Google Maps API to allow Australians to search for nearby world toilets yesteryear place as well as yesteryear the facilities offered. The National Public Toilet Map likewise allows users to excogitation a driving trip amongst available world toilets displayed along the route.

We Accept A Work Euston

This TransportBuzz Demo is a funny, sometimes rude merely interesting map of Twitter messages sent from roughly London's Euston station. The map was developed past times the Transport API, which uses opened upward information feeds from the UK's world transit regime to render information on national timetables together with alive difference together with arrival times.

The TransportBuzz map displays carry related tweets from roughly London's Euston prepare station. This way that you lot tin hand the axe brain into the ofttimes angry together with rude messages sent past times a horde of angry commuters.


Another interesting Twitter map is this EchoSec map from the Australian Open. The contest is proving a lilliputian controversial equally the players convey been complaining near having to play inwards Australia's tape high temperatures.

The EchoSec Google Map displays social media messages together with photos from spectators using Instagram, Twitter together with Foursquare.

Victoria Bushfire Map

The State of Victoria is using Google Maps inwards its novel VicEmergency website. The map shows the locations of the latest emergency warnings as well as provides data on the place as well as province of bushfires inwards the state.

The website likewise contains a lot of useful data on emergency contact telephone numbers as well as how to gear upwards as well as response to a fire.

ABC Emergency does an fantabulous labor inwards reporting electrical current emergency alerts as well as warnings for each Australian state. The site likewise carries expert advice on preparing bushfire kits as well as plans as well as provides advice on how to contact the emergency services.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology likewise provides a National Warnings Summary, listing electrical current burn warnings across the country.

Remote Command Tourism

In Oct of concluding yr Visit Victoria launched a 5 twenty-four lx minutes menstruum movement to promote the urban essence of Melbourne. Melbourne Remote Control Tourist allowed potential tourists roughly the basis to sense the urban essence online inwards real-time past times controlling in addition to directing a discover of remote controlled tourists roughly Melbourne.

The remote controlled tourists were kitted out with helmet-mounted cameras in addition to could last instructed where to teach in addition to what to view via Twitter in addition to Facebook. The Melbourne Remote Control Tourist website included alive broadcasts of the video in addition to well feeds from the remote controlled tourists.

The movement has straightaway finished exactly you lot tin yet sentiment selected videos captured during the 5 days. You tin besides explore the Remote Control Tourist Google Map of Melbourne which features a categorized alternative of the city's best restaurants, bars, cafes in addition to sights.

Queensland Offense On Google Maps

CrimeMap.info is a Google Map of Queensland crime, using information from the Queensland Police Service. I was planning to compare the map to the Queensland Police's ain criminal offence map. However that requires Silverlight to sentiment too who the hell has that. So that's a win for the CrimeMap correct there.

CrimeMap lets you lot search for crimes committed inward Queensland past times address. The crimes committed around the searched for address are too thence displayed on the map. If you lot conduct the crime's marking on the map you lot tin sentiment details, including the type of crime, too the fourth dimension & appointment of the offense. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 prissy acquit on of the map is that each criminal offence is indicated every moment having been solved or remaining unsolved.

How To Avoid Hipster Social Suicide

Over the concluding few years I convey found it to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than hard to avoid the social embarrassment of beingness spotted inwards a hipster pub or bar. It is an unfortunate fact of modern life that the nicer a drinking institution is in addition to then the to a greater extent than probable it is to survive all of a abrupt overrun yesteryear this plague of modern inner-city society.

Luckily nevertheless I convey discovered that no-one else genuinely wishes to guide a opportunity the social suicide of beingness seen inwards a hipster venue. It is thence real slowly to spot a hipster bar or pub yesteryear beingness able to recognize the disguises worn yesteryear the embarrassed patrons.

On outset entering a pub y'all should await real closely at all the customers. If all the immature men are wearing ridiculous simulated beards y'all should brand equally quick an function out equally is humanly possible. The danger amongst this method nevertheless is that y'all may soundless survive spotted leaving the hipster bar. It would thence survive much amend if y'all genuinely had a hipster map that allowed y'all to avoid entering these traps of social suicide inwards the outset place.


Luckily if y'all alive inwards the Australian metropolis of Melbourne y'all straightaway convey such a map. The Hipster Map of Melbourne is a handy guide to venues that y'all wouldn't desire to survive seen dead in.

The map includes a disclose of categories, which way that if y'all are looking for somewhere to eat, drinkable or purchase clothe inwards Melbourne y'all straightaway convey a handy map of places to avoid.


The rating in addition to review service Yelp has likewise released a Google Map that tin demonstrate y'all where the hipsters hangout inwards your city.

The Yelp Wordmap is a serial of heatmaps of mutual words used inwards Yelp reviews. One of the words is 'hipster' which way y'all tin role the map to avoid beingness seen inwards a hipster venue. If y'all guide 'hipster' from the available words inwards the map sidebar in addition to and then guide a metropolis (from a pick of fourteen cities worldwide) y'all tin thought a heatmap of where the hipsters hangout inwards your town.

Why Is Australia In Addition To Then Hot?

I've been feeling a chip lamentable for Australia. Recently I've beingness seeing a lot of those Google search autocomplete maps for American states together with European countries but none alone for Australia. I've thence used Map Channels' awesome new Autocomplete Map Maker to practice a couplet of Australian autocomplete maps.

The Why is Australia map shows the Google autocomplete results for Australian states together with major cities when yous type inwards 'Why is (state) so ...' into Google. From the resulting map I tin only assume that Australians locomote simply about their province inwards a province of constant surprise close how hot their province is. Except when they croak to Canberra when they only desire to know why it is so cold.

Australia Needs is a like map, only this fourth dimension the map shows the autocomplete search results when yous type inwards '(state) needs ...'.  Apparently Commonwealth of Australia is inwards postulate of a major structure drive, because Melbourne needs a subject park, Adelaide needs taller buildings together with Brisbane needs to a greater extent than bridges.

If yous desire to practice your ain Autocomplete map together with so banking concern stand upward for out the new Autocomplete Map Maker which allows yous to practice your ain map using whatsoever Google search terms.

Mapping Melbourne's Street Art

The City of Melbourne has instigated an interesting 'Do Art Not Tags' drive aimed at educating the city's youth nigh the differences betwixt street fine art in addition to graffiti.

As business office of the drive the urban kernel has created an ArcGIS Story Map highlighting around of the best of Melbourne's street art. The content for the Do Art Not Tags map has been collected using ArcGIS's Collector App which allows for photos of the street fine art to hold upwardly captured past times smartphone, uploaded to Flickr in addition to right away added to the map.

The map itself is responsive, which allows high schoolhouse students to role the map on their phones or tablet devices to easily detect in addition to view the street fine art for themselves.

The Australian Earthquake Map

Last calendar week Geoscience Commonwealth of Australia released a study on seismic action inwards the province during 2013. Western Commonwealth of Australia was the close seismically active state, experiencing 332 earthquakes, too the pocket-sized town of Ernabella inwards South Commonwealth of Australia recorded the largest earthquake (a 5.7 magnitude quake).

You tin flaming leave of absence on upwards to engagement amongst electrical flow seismic action inwards Commonwealth of Australia on Geoscience Australia's Earthquake Map. This Google Map shows earthquakes that convey occurred inwards Commonwealth of Australia too the surrounding percentage during the concluding 7 days. Earthquakes are displayed on the map past times circular markers, which are sized according to the magnitude of the recorded quake.

Via: All Things Spatial

Better Bushfire Mapping

Australia's Sentinel Hotspots organization is a national bushfire monitoring organization designed to supply information near hotspots to emergency services across Australia. The mapping organization allows users to position burn downward locations which are a potential peril to communities as well as property.

Sentinel Hotspots has at 1 time been improved to supply amend as well as to a greater extent than information near satellite detected fires over the continent. The novel version of Sentinel Hotspots likewise includes a pose out of layers which tin lav live on overlaid on summit of the Google Map's interface, These include layers for Local Government Areas alongside information from NEXIS (the National Exposure Information System), for representative population estimates, residential edifice replacement value estimates, commercial edifice counts as well as replacement value estimates.

Sentinel Hotspots likewise at 1 time includes an alternative to persuasion historical bushfire information on the map, which tin lav live on filtered past times location as well as date. Users tin lav likewise download the information inwards a pose out of dissimilar formats.

Via: All Things Spatial

Putting Australia's Civilization On The Map

The Cultural Atlas of Australia is a Google Map charting the locations used inwards Australian literature too film. The aim of the map is to draw the ways inwards which Australian places too spaces convey been represented inwards fictional texts.

The map tin laissez passer on notice live on searched past times narrative setting too past times shooting location (for film). It likewise possible to search the atlas past times title, author, appointment too telephone commutation words. If you lot search for an private majority or celluloid you lot tin laissez passer on notice stance a Google Map highlighting all the locations or settings used inwards that text.

So far The Cultural Atlas of Commonwealth of Australia has concentrated on contemporary books too films develop inwards the Australian landscape exactly has plans to include to a greater extent than historical narratives too narratives develop inwards Australia's urban centres.

Mapping The Melbourne Commute

Federation University inwards Commonwealth of Australia has created an animated Google Maps based visualization of commuter journeys undertaken past times academy staff. The animated map reveals go patterns based on staff journeys from their homes to the university's primary campus sites. The showtime 3 streets of each fellow member of staff's journeying is non shown for privacy reasons.

The FedUni Commute shows how staff go from their abode to decease far at their finish campus past times 9 am. As the animation plays the nearly used roads on the map larn thicker to reverberate the increased traffic.

The map includes a breakdown of approximately of the data, including the average distance traveled, the average commute fourth dimension in addition to the estimated CO2 output of all the journeys per twenty-four hours in addition to per year.

The Australian Holding Bubble

For a publish of years economists convey been queuing-up to warn that the Australian belongings bubble is prime number to burst.

Wikipedia, for example, finishes its entry on the Australian Property Bubble amongst a real hyperbolic conclusion, "... the bang-up Australian housing bubble has been expanding unsustainably for good over 2 decades, since the early-nineties, making it the largest, longest lasting together with most unsafe bubble (of whatever type) that has always existed anywhere inwards the footing inwards known history".


This calendar week the All Things Spatial blog has beingness looking at real-estate maps for Sydney, Australia. Judging past times the next 2 maps a lot of hot air is even then beingness blown into this detail belongings bubble.

Realestate.com.au is Australia's leading real-estate portal. The website uses Google Maps to furnish a heat-map visualization of working capital alphabetic quality increase over five years together with rental yields. The heat-map for Sydney shows that the belongings marketplace inwards Sydney at to the lowest degree is even then showing special growth. City broad median cost for units convey risen past times to a greater extent than than 12% over the final year.


Domain are likewise using Google Maps to furnish an overview of the Australian belongings market. Their map allows you lot to sentiment median prices for properties equally good equally the working capital alphabetic quality increase rates for the past times year, together with for the final three together with five years.

The Domain heat-map for Sydney i time again seems to present potent increase inwards belongings prices, amongst most areas experiencing year-on-year cost gains of over 8%. I'll allow the economists fighting over whether this is a sign of a good for you lot marketplace or of a bubble virtually to burst.

Via: All Things Spatial

The Melway & Brisway On Google Maps

You tin right away browse Australia's iconic street directories the Melway together with the Brisway on a Google Map.

The source edition of the Melway street directory of Melbourne was released inwards May 1966. It is currently inwards its 41st edition. This iconic street map of Melbourne tin right away hold upward viewed using Google Map's familiar mapping platform.

Melway Online uses the Google Maps API to acquaint the Melway together with Brisway street directories via the good known Google Maps interface. Melway Online retains the street directory's frame together with grid information, it is thus possible to usage the same frame together with grid numbers on both the novel interactive map together with the master copy newspaper editions of the map.

The novel Melway Online map includes the Google map search function, which agency you lot tin search for locations, businesses together with places of involvement on the Melway map.

The Rudest Places Inwards Australia

Aussies inwards the acre of South Commonwealth of Australia merely can't terminate swearing, at to the lowest degree that seems to last the lesson to last learned from their Twitter messages. Languages of Australia is a map showing the languages of geolocated tweets inwards Australia. It too shows where people used profanities inwards their Tweets.

The map uses Twitter information from sixth June 2013 until March 14th 2014. It reveals that South Commonwealth of Australia is the acre where the must profanities were made during that time. However although it was the rudest acre the rudest suburb is truly inwards New South Wales, where the Twitter users of Illawarra Catchment Reserve used profanities inwards over a 3rd of all their Twitter messages.

The superlative non-English languages used inwards Tweets are displayed on the map amongst coloured dots. You tin too lead whatever of the languages from a drop-down bill of fare to sentiment the expose of Tweets made inwards the linguistic communication inwards each suburb.

One Man's Nation Of War Remembered

On the 1st August 1914 Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany declared country of war on Russia. Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany followed this up, 2 days, subsequently past times declaring country of war on France. One twenty-four threescore minutes menses subsequently UK declared country of war on Germany. The First World War had very begun.

One hundred years subsequently the footstep of World War I mapping is likewise gathering inwards momentum. The latest World War I map is this impressive Esri Story Map well-nigh 1 Australian farm-hand's journeying from rural Victoria to his decease inwards activity on the grim battlefields of Gallipoli.

It is difficult for anyone to fathom the sheer scale of the over xvi 1 yard m deaths of World War I. For King as well as Country - John Henry Cartwright's Gallipoli possess 1914-1915 focuses on simply 1 of those xvi 1 yard m life as well as decease stories as well as is all the to a greater extent than poignant for it. The map traces John Cartwright's journeying from Victoria inwards Commonwealth of Australia to Gallipoli. The map is illustrated past times vintage photographs, archive celluloid as well as about of Cartwright's ain armed forces records.

The map is a plumbing equipment memorial to the sacrifice made past times John Henry Cartwright as well as somehow fifty-fifty brings to a greater extent than clearly into focus the lives of the millions of other servicemen as well as women who died fighting inwards World War I.

Mapping The Languages Of Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald has created an interesting mapped analysis of the languages spoken inward the city. The map shows the occur non-English languages spoken inward each of the city's suburbs, the density of English linguistic communication every minute a outset linguistic communication together with the linguistic sort inward each neighbourhood.

Sydney's Melting Pot of Language reveals that E Asians predominantly alive inward the due north shore piece Standard Arabic speakers dominate the western suburbs. Over 250 dissimilar languages are spoken inward the metropolis together with virtually twoscore percent verbalize a non-English linguistic communication every minute their outset tongue.

Accompanying the mapped visualization is a bar graph showing the numbers of speakers of each of the non-English languages spoken inward the city. The graph groups the languages into global regions precisely you lot tin choose whatever of the percentage bars to thought a per centum breakdown of the private languages.