Neon Maps

M+, Hong Kong’s museum for visual culture, has released an interactive online exhibition celebrating Hong Kong’s neon signs. Neon Signs explores, maps as well as documents the city's wonderful neon signs.

The populace tin upload images of their ain favorite neon signs from throughout Hong Kong as well as they volition appear on the Neon Signs Google Map. The map itself uses the Styled Map characteristic as well as custom map markers to exercise a unique looking map. The markers purpose horizontal neon colored lines that stand-out on a dark as well as grayness themed map.

The dark as well as grayness map tiles besides ensure that the colorful photos of the city's neon signs appear brilliant against the nighttime map background.

The Hong Kong Java Map

Cowome is a Google Map of cafes inwards Hong Kong that are bang-up places to work. The map is aimed at freelancers together with students together with includes handy tips most WiFi, the lineament of java together with the best times to visit.

The Cowome map is user created, which way if you lot know of a expert cafe to function inwards thence you lot tin add together it to the map. It is every bit good amazingly the kickoff Google Maps based application from Hong Kong that nosotros convey featured on Google .

Hong Kong's Air Pollution Dashboard

The Hedley Environment Index is a real-time dashboard in addition to Google Map of air pollution inwards Hong Kong.

The dashboard provides a continually updating gauge of the release of deaths inwards Hong Kong in addition to the economical loss caused past times air pollution inwards the city. The Google Map shows real-time readings of air pollutant concentration from monitors throughout Hong Kong. The markers on the map are color-coded in addition to sized to reverberate the electrical flow total of air pollution at each location.

Users tin post away choose private air pollution monitors on the map to sentiment a historical describe of piece of occupation graph of the air pollution readings from the chosen monitor.

Neon Maps

M+, Hong Kong’s museum for visual culture, has released an interactive online exhibition celebrating Hong Kong’s neon signs. Neon Signs explores, maps as well as documents the city's wonderful neon signs.

The populace tin upload images of their ain favorite neon signs from throughout Hong Kong as well as they volition appear on the Neon Signs Google Map. The map itself uses the Styled Map characteristic as well as custom map markers to exercise a unique looking map. The markers purpose horizontal neon colored lines that stand-out on a dark as well as grayness themed map.

The dark as well as grayness map tiles besides ensure that the colorful photos of the city's neon signs appear brilliant against the nighttime map background.

China Hold Upwards Dammed

If there's 1 affair that China likes to a greater extent than than a smoggy metropolis it is a dammed river. China is genuinely trying really difficult to decrease its reliance on fossil fuels. One result of this is a huge expansion inwards hydropower.

China is planning to build 84 major dams inwards the southwest of the country. The Wilson Center has released an interactive map showing the locations of all the proposed dams. Do China’s Dam Plans Hold Water visualizes proposed dams, those nether structure as well as those inwards operation.

The Wilson Center reports that the number of this expansion volition increase China’s hydropower capacity to to a greater extent than than that of Europe past times 2015, as well as to a greater extent than than that of Europe as well as the United State combined past times 2020.

A Sleeping Empire Awakes

The Northward Migration of the Majority is an interesting serial of animated oestrus maps showing the movements of the inhabitants as well as workers inwards iii Chinese cities. The iii maps visualize the patterns of population crusade inwards Beijing, Shanghai as well as Guangzhou over a 24 hr period.

The Beijing animation includes an inset map that displays a publish of highlights of pregnant moments during the day. The inset shows a zoomed inwards map of locations that meet increased numbers of people at specific moments during the day. These include carry hubs during rush hr as well as concern centers during working hours.

Each of the animated oestrus map layers are overlaid on peak of a Baidu map of the city. There is no information on where the population information comes from, withal the exclusively link on the page is to the mobile version of Baidu maps then I suspect the information may come upward from mobile outcry upward tracking.

Dialect Maps

Phonemica is a actually interesting map of Chinese spoken stories. The projection was conceived equally a agency to save spoken stories inwards Communist People's Republic of China equally spoken inwards the local vernacular.

Anyone tin tape a even at habitation too submit it to the map. Different Chinese languages too dialects are differentiated on the map past times dissimilar colored map markers. You tin likewise filter the results shown on the map past times location, keyword too linguistic communication / dialect.

If y'all click on a map marking y'all tin click through to listed to the submitted even recording.


The most pop interactive webpage on the New York Times website end twelvemonth was How Y’all, Youse too You Guys Talk. This interactive characteristic asks y'all a serial of questions near your pronunciation too role of sure as shooting words too from the answers creates a personal dialect map. The resulting heat-map shows y'all which areas of the the US convey dialects similar to you.


Back inwards 2010 the British Library asked people to map their voices inwards gild to practice a Google Map of how English linguistic communication is spoken roughly the world.

The Map Your Voice projection is a Google Map of recordings made past times people land reading the children's even 'Mr. Tickle' past times Roger Hargreaves. This detail even was chosen for the make of English linguistic communication sounds it contains when read out loud.

Territorial Disputes Inwards The Southward China Sea

In the final yoke of months tensions bring been running high inwards the South too East China Seas every bit China too Nippon bring both escalated their armed forces presence inwards the area. China has likewise expire caught upwards inwards diplomatic rows amongst Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines too Negara Brunei Darussalam over long standing conflicting claims over territorial rights inwards the China seas.

Al Jeezera has published a map examining the history of the South China Sea Disputes. The map explores around of the historical hot-spots betwixt China too its neighbors inwards the expanse since 1974. The map irtself was created using Leaflet.js too the Knight Lab Story Maps library.

The Story Maps template way that you lot tin flaming explore the map chronologically, using the forrad too dorsum arrows to progress through Al Jaeera's mapped history of the region. You tin flaming likewise click on the map markers to jump to private locations on the map.

Check-In Beijing

The Jiepang Check-in map visualizes check-ins made on China's leading social network on 24th Oct 2012.

Jiepang is oft called the Foursquare of China. As China's leading place based service it allows users to part their place information amongst friends as well as equally good to check-in to venues. The Jiepang Check-in map shows check-ins made on Jiepang inwards Beijing on i day.

The colors of the circles on the map correspond the category of venue (dining, shopping, night-life etc). I assume the size of the circles correspond the pose out of check-ins made at each venue.

Mapping China's Jump Movement

This calendar week to a greater extent than or less 2.8 billion trip volition hold upwards made inwards China past times people travelling to celebrate the Chinese New Year's Day alongside their families. Baidu has created a mapped visualization showing where together with when its customers are travelling over this vacation week.

Baidu's mobile maps has over 350 1000000 active users together with receives over 10 billion place requests every day. This provides Baidu alongside a unique insight into the movements of the Chinese population over this vacation week.

The chun yun (spring movement) of people is visualized on the Baidu Migration map. If y'all pick out private cities on the map y'all tin thought where residents are travelling to together with from. The orangish lines on the map demo people travelling into a urban centre together with the xanthous lines demo people leaving the city.

Mapping Historical Beijing

Dashilar is 1 of Beijing's improve conserved districts. The area, named later on 1 of the city's most historical shopping streets, is known for its traditional shops, tea-houses as well as Chinese opera houses.

Unfortunately the district has suffered inwards the modern era of China's rapid economical evolution as well as has seen years of neglect. The Dashilar Project is trying to regenerate the area, piece too striving to sustain the district's historic character.

The project's website includes a prominent interactive map of Dashilar. The map showcases many of the district's historical landmarks, shops as well as hotels. The map was created using the Mapbar API. However instead of using Mapbar's park route map trend it features simply about beautifully designed custom made map tiles of the area.

The map trend uses an axonometric projection which seems to last a homage to the traditions of traditional Chinese landscape painting.

The Chinese mapping company Edushi has been creating interactive isometric maps of Chinese cities for a publish of years. The to a greater extent than stylized Dashilar map nevertheless has a far to a greater extent than traditional blueprint than the Sim City similar Edushi maps.

I don't know plenty nearly the history of Chinese cartography but I can't assistance wondering if this purpose of axonometric projection past times Dashilar as well as Edushi reflects a non-Western tradition of cartographic blueprint inwards Cathay that is similar a shot beingness resurrected inwards these interactive digital maps.