Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts

Monday, October 3, 2022

The Matrix On Street View


This ane sounds similar an Apr Fools joke merely I hope you lot it isn't.

Photographer Alexis Jemus has shot a discover of indoor Street Views of Montreal businesses every bit purpose of the Google Business Photos program. When he shot the Street View for the Montreal Ikea shop he decided non to hire models for the shoot merely instead cloned himself l times.

Don't believe me? Then banking concern agree out this incredible scene inwards Street View, inwards which l Alexis Jemuses look inwards ane incredible panoramic image.

Via: Google Street View World

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

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.

Saturday, December 11, 2021

International Polar Send Hateful Solar Daytime On Street View


Last twelvemonth Google partnered amongst Polar Bears International to capture Street View imagery inwards the tundra of Churchill, Manitoba inwards Canada. The expanse is domicile to ane of the largest polar comport populations on the planet.

To celebrate International Polar Bear Day the imagery has instantly been added to Google Maps. As y'all mightiness imagine the novel Street View features a lot of snowfall together with those darn white bears are difficult to spot. So far nosotros accept flora exclusively one shot of an actual polar bear. Maybe y'all tin flaming produce better.


If y'all are interested inwards polar bears together with thence y'all should cheque out the Bear Tracker. The Bear Tracker from Polar Bear International is tracking the movements of polar bears inwards Hudson Bay.


The Bear Tacker Google Map shows electrical current together with by body of body of water H2O ice levels on Hudson Bay, together with likewise the crude oil locations of polar bears. Users tin flaming click on the private polar comport markers to thought the bear's runway together with likewise purpose a fourth dimension slider command to come across the locations of the bears over time.

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Mapping Cosmopolitan Toronto


Toronto is 1 of the world's most various cities. About 49% of Toronto's population was born exterior Canada. Cosmopolis Toronto is celebrating the multifariousness of Toronto's citizens past times photographing somebody born inwards every unmarried dry reason of the world, who similar a shot calls Toronto home.

Cosmopolis Toronto uses Google Maps throughout its website. The homepage features a prominent map that acts equally a keen navigational aide. All the featured Torontonians on the site are shown on the map past times dry reason of birth. You tin click on a country's marking to click-through together with persuasion the selected Torontonian's photographed portraiture together with read to a greater extent than close their life-story.

Monday, October 11, 2021

Notams For Pilots On Google Maps


Zweefvlieg is a novel Google Map that displays Notices To Airmen (NOTAMs) that could impact Dutch gliders. NOTAMs are messages issued yesteryear governmental agencies that warn pilots as well as operators of aircraft of final infinitesimal changes that could impact a flight, such every moment the closure of a department of airspace.

The map shows the NOTAMs released daily yesteryear the Royal Netherlands Airforce for Dutch airspace. NOTAMs affecting airports are displayed amongst bird icons on the map. NOTAMs affecting airspace are displayed using round down polygons.


Zulu for Pilots is a Google Map that helps pilots honor Notice To Airmen (NOTAMS) issued yesteryear NavCanada.

Using the map it is possible to search for Canadian airports yesteryear their ICAO code as well as honor nearby NOTAMS. Airports are marked on the map amongst large map markers as well as clicking on the marking volition display all the NOTAMS for that airdrome inwards the map sidebar. Obstructions on the map are represented yesteryear pocket-sized markers.

NOTAMS are updated from NavCanda’s website every thirty infinitesimal as well as the fourth dimension of the final update is displayed inwards a higher house the map.

Saturday, September 25, 2021

The Matrix On Street View


This ane sounds similar an Apr Fools joke merely I hope you lot it isn't.

Photographer Alexis Jemus has shot a discover of indoor Street Views of Montreal businesses every bit purpose of the Google Business Photos program. When he shot the Street View for the Montreal Ikea shop he decided non to hire models for the shoot merely instead cloned himself l times.

Don't believe me? Then banking concern agree out this incredible scene inwards Street View, inwards which l Alexis Jemuses look inwards ane incredible panoramic image.

Via: Google Street View World

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Mapping Inuit Trails Inwards The Canadian-Artic


Pan Inuit Trails is a Google Map of Inuit trails too place-names inwards the Canadian Arctic, including Inuit waters, coasts too lands based on written historical records.

The Inuit trails shown on the map include boat routes, walking trails too sled trails which connected the Inuit people alongside resources too alongside other Inuit. The Inuit place-names too trails are based on written records too maps from the 19th too 20th centuries.

You tin laissez passer on the sack search the map yesteryear clicking on the trails or places displayed on the map or yesteryear searching yesteryear keyword. You tin laissez passer on the sack every 2nd good plow on the 'Maps' layer which reveals the bounding boxes of the master copy historical maps. If you lot pick out a map bounding box outline you lot tin laissez passer on the sack persuasion the master copy map inwards the sidebar.

Saturday, May 22, 2021

Mapping A Business Inwards The Sand


The Line inward the Sand Map is a actually good designed Mapbox map which contains video interviews amongst residents who alive along the road of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline inward Canada. The Northern Gateway Pipelines Project plans to construct a twin pipeline from Bruderheim, Alberta, to Kitimat, British Columbia.

The Line inward the Sand is a collaborative get to assistance portion the opinions as well as stories of those who volition last straight affected past times the pipeline. This video map is a purpose of that project, which volition eventually perish a feature-length documentary.

I've done a lot of video mapping myself over the years as well as I actually similar the video thumbnail markers on this map. If you lot mouse-over a marking it expands a piffling as well as plays a soundless preview of the video. Click on the marking as well as the video volition opened upwards as well as play.

Monday, May 10, 2021

A Storey Map For D-Day


This even map of the  role of the Canadian terra firma forces inwards the Allied invasion on Normandy during D-Day isn't the greatest map inwards the world. However I produce yell upward it provides the footing for a dandy template for a narrative map.

CTV News' Remembering D-Day provides a chronological mapped tour of or as well as then of the of import events inwards the Canadian army's advance during the allied invasion. The map uses the scroll component subdivision to progress through the narrative of the day's events. As you lot scroll downwards the page the relevant data inwards the map-sidebar is highlighted as well as the map moves to the discussed location.

I similar the highlighting of the relevant text inwards the map sidebar. The map could accept been made a petty to a greater extent than interesting alongside to a greater extent than campaign on the map, perchance using animated polylines as well as or as well as then closer zooming on the mapped locations.

The usage of the scroll bar to progress through the narrative likewise agency that you lot can't usage your mouse-wheel to scroll inwards as well as out on the map. So the map would likewise produce goodness from including or as well as then zoom controls.

Friday, May 7, 2021

Donating Past Times Location


This is a actually prissy consider for a map. GeoDonation is a map of locations inwards together with around Montreal together with Quebec where you lot tin donate your unwanted possessions to charitable organizations. The map shows the location of 1,000 donation bins together with other places where you lot tin drop-off your unneeded clothes, electronic goods, sporting goods together with books.

Among the actually good designed elements on this mobile device optimized map is the purpose of color. Each category of donation has its ain color. When you lot conduct a category from the map sidebar the markers on the map are filtered to exhibit solely the relevant donation bins. The markers on the map together with the page heading too alter to gibe the category's assigned color.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Mapping Buildings Past Times Taxation Revenue


Harvesting Our Cities' Land for Dollars is a map which shows the taxation revenue per hectare of every edifice inwards Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Building plots on the map are colored yesteryear the sum of taxation revenue per hectare generated yesteryear each building. If you lot guide a edifice on the map you lot tin flame thought the taxation revenue per hectare of the edifice for 2011 in addition to 2014. Another map shows the median alter inwards the taxation revenues of each edifice betwixt the 2 years.

The maps are accompanied yesteryear a an interesting article explaining how the map was created amongst TileMill in addition to Mapbox.

Monday, April 12, 2021

The Vancouver Edifice Historic Menstruation Map


The Vancouver Building Age Map shows the historic menses of buildings inward Vancouver. The information for the edifice ages is from the City of Vancouver's Open Data Catalogue as well as the map tiles were created using ArcGIS as well as TileMill. The belongings lots of the oldest buildings are shaded xanthous on the map. The youngest buildings are shaded blue.

The Vancouver Building Age Map is the latest inward an e'er increasing business of edifice ages maps. You tin at ane time thought maps visualizing the historic menses of buildings inward Barcelona New YorkBrooklyn, MoscowReykjavíkall of the Netherlandsall of the Netherlands - againLjubljana inward SloveniaPortlandChicagoMilwaukee and Detroit.

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Water Character Maps


What's inwards the Water is both a mapped conduct to the H2O lineament of Ontario's lakes as well as rivers as well as a resources for fish consumption caught inwards the province's waters.

Using the map you lot tin plough over the sack click on the conical flask map markers to sentiment a breakdown of the H2O lineament at the selected location. The breakdown includes readings for nitrates, alkalinity as well as diverse metals. The private readings for each mensuration are provided as well as are colored dark-green if they are inside accepted security levels or blood-red where the levels are deemed unsafe.

You tin plough over the sack click on the fish map markers to sentiment the species of fish that you lot tin plough over the sack grab at a item location. If you lot pick out a species of fish listed inwards the map sidebar you lot tin plough over the sack read to a greater extent than almost the species as well as click through to read almost the consumption guidelines for the selected species of fish.

Mapping Canada's Divided Cities


The Martin Prosperity Institute has published a report into the urban geography of Canada, called The Divided City. The report argues that Canadian cities are immediately divided betwixt 3 principal social classes; the creative class, the service course of teaching as well as the working class.

To illustrate the results of the report The Martin Prosperity Institute has released an interactive map visulaizing where the 3 principal classes alive inwards Toronto, Vancouver as well as Montreal. The Geography of Class inwards Canadian Cities uses the Esri mapping platform to exhibit a map of each of the 3 cities.

On each of the urban essence maps neighborhoods are colored to betoken the predominant class. You tin likewise click on each neighborhood on the map to thought the pct of each course of teaching inwards the area. In all 3 cities the centers are dominated past times the affluent creative class, who likewise tend to radiate out along transit lines. The poorer working course of teaching has been pushed out inwards all 3 cities, amongst hardly whatever predominantly working course of teaching neighborhoods left inwards Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.

Mapping The Heroes Of Ww1


More than nine 1000000 people were killed inwards World War I. It was a country of war that destroyed families together with communities inwards towns together with cities across the world. The devastating number of the country of war is really powerfully demonstrated inwards these ii maps visualizing the addresses of soldiers killed during the First World War.

The Streets They Left Behind is a map of the homes of the 9,400 men together with 1 recorded adult woman who died inwards World War I who came from the London boroughs of Highbury together with Finsbury. You tin search the map past times address, past times age, past times refer or past times regiment.


This Global News Map shows the addresses of the 2,910 soldiers who died inwards the First World War inwards Toronto. The map shows the homes of soldiers who had mappable addresses inwards the metropolis together with surrounding communities (the actual number who died was genuinely over 4,000).

Just past times looking at the screenshot of the map higher upward y'all tin say that at that spot was hardly a menage unit of measurement inwards the metropolis who didn't lose a father, husband, blood brother or vecino inwards the war. The map every bit good allows y'all to persuasion layers showing the addresses of Toronto men together with women who lost their lives inwards the Second World War together with inwards the Korean War.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Mapping The Toronto Municipal Election


This Google Maps based 2014 Toronto Municipal Election map is a actually nicely designed visualization of the recent Toronto elections. The map allows y'all to explore how each electoral ward voted as well as besides provides information on a hit of socio-economic information nearly each ward as well as subdivision.

If y'all mouse-over a ward section on the map y'all tin sack sentiment a breakdown of the percent of votes cast for each candidate. The voting breakdown besides includes the percent of votes cast for each candidate inwards the whole election ward as well as inwards the whole city. This agency y'all tin sack easily compare the voting tape of each sub-division amongst the whole ward as well as amongst the overall results,

When y'all mouse-over a sub-division on the map y'all tin sack besides sentiment data, beneath the map, on the education, income as well as trouble of voters inwards the selected ward.

Friday, April 17, 2020

Mapping Vancouver Holding Prices


The Vancouver Land Prices Heat Map visualizes the toll for Vancouver parcels of dry soil based on the 2014 BC assessment information from revenue enhancement reports. Land parcels on the map are colored to reverberate the toll per foursquare human foot of the property.

The map shows that many of Vancouver's close expensive properties are concentrated inward the Downtown, West End together with Fairview neighborhoods. The map likewise shows that dry soil prices tend to larn cheaper the farther you lot motility eastward inward the city. If you lot pick out a edifice lot on the map you lot tin sentiment the exact toll per foursquare human foot for the property.

Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Kickoff Nations Music Map


Musique Nomade uses a mobile recording studio to move roughly the communities of the First Nations of Quebec to assistance prepare as well as promote First Nations artists.

Nations et Communautés is a Google Map showcasing some of the music created past times First Nation artists. The music of the dissimilar First Nation communities are indicated on the map past times categorized map markers. You tin larn to a greater extent than virtually each of the First Nation tribes represented on the map past times selecting their cite inwards the map legend (the data is inwards French).

If y'all desire to heed to the music recorded past times whatsoever of the First Nation communities, groups or individuals but select a marking on the map. The numbered markers dot the seat out of recordings available at a location. Once y'all select a marking y'all tin pick out to heed to whatsoever of the available tracks.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

The Hockey Heatmap Of Canada


The 10 in addition to iii has released a Canadian NHL Players Map. The map shows the release of NHL players from each portion since 1923.

Regions on this hockey heat-map of Canada are assigned a color intensity based on the release of players whose birthplace was inwards that region. The to a greater extent than players relative to the area’s population in addition to therefore the higher the intensity.

The map is a fiddling skewed yesteryear regions amongst a depression population. These regions tin flame demonstrate upwards vivid blood-red fifty-fifty when in that location is alone i player, due to the map showing the release of players per 10,000 residents. The map does include a push clitoris to exclude regions amongst alone i player.

Monday, March 30, 2020

Canada's Languages Mapped


You powerfulness hold out surprised to larn that inwards the far northward of Canada, inwards the Northwest Territories, the almost spoken linguistic communication (after French together with English) is Arabic.

The x together with iii has mapped the almost prevalent languages, also French together with English, spoken inwards Canadian homes. Using information from the 2011 census the site has mapped the almost prevalent non-official languages inwards each census division.

Canada’s Far-Flung Language Enclaves shows the results of the analysis on a Google Map. The map colors each census segmentation past times the almost prevalent language. You tin mouse-over each segmentation on the map to stance the per centum of the population which speaks the almost prevalent linguistic communication (after French & English).


Using information from the 2011 Canadian census CBC has mapped Quebec's English linguistic communication speakers.

The Where are Quebec's Anglos? map shows the set out of people inwards Quebec's census districts who self-indentify equally Anglophone. Users tin choose from regions inwards the map sidebar to zoom the map to specific locations. The map displays a oestrus map of census results showing where English linguistic communication was given equally the woman bring upward natural language or the linguistic communication almost used at home.

The highest density of English linguistic communication speakers (although minor inwards full population) seems to hold out amidst the hardy folk living on the Côte-Nord.


Global News has also used the linguistic communication information from the 2011 Canadian census to practise mapped visualizations of the leading woman bring upward tongues past times census tract inwards a set out of cities.

The Google Map for each urban nub allows users to stance the per centum of dissimilar linguistic communication speakers inwards each census tract. The maps also include other census topics, such equally age, sex together with the set out of children.