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. 

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 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.

The Maps Of The Week

The University of Maryland's Global Forest Change Map is a Google Map showing wood extent in addition to wood modify globally betwixt 2000 in addition to 2012.

By comparison over one-half a 1000000 satellite images the University of Maryland were able to analyse wood loss in addition to arrive at across the world. From the analysis they convey created a reveal of overlays showing both wood loss in addition to wood gain. You tin persuasion all of the overlays on this Google Map in addition to discovery the results of global deforestation.


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

Illustreets has created an awesome animated Google Map of England in addition to Wales showing the monthly book of habitation sales past times postcode from Jan 2009 to August 2013. The map provides a groovy instance of how the belongings marketplace inward the Great Britain has recovered since the get-go of 2009. The map likewise shows the seasonal patterns of belongings sales inward the UK, dropping off inward the wintertime months, specially inward January, in addition to ascent in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than inward the boundary in addition to summertime months.

Users tin accommodate the value of properties that they want to display on the map in addition to conduct whatever postcode to persuasion a nautical chart showing median menage prices vs. monthly belongings sales.


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

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 expert demonstration of Torque inward activeness is this Amsterdam: Fire Engine Callouts map. The map uses the Torque library to animate 62,415 burn brigade call-outs inward Amsterdam betwixt Jan 2006 in addition to September 2010.

The Google Maps Of The Week

Recently nosotros accept seen all the buildings inwards the Netherlands mapped past times historic catamenia of construction. Now nosotros accept a alive real-time map of all the buses inwards the Netherlands.

Ovzoeker is a Google Map that shows inwards real-time the pose of buses belonging to a let out of Dutch transit companies. The buses on the map are color-coded to request which transit companionship they belong to. If yous click on whatever 1 of the thousands of buses moving on this map yous tin thought where it is heading together with how early on or belatedly it is running.

This isn't the starting fourth dimension time we've seen a alive real-time map of a country's whole transit network. In Switzerland yous tin thought the whole Swiss rails network operating inwards real-time at SBB Network. In the USA yous tin thought all of the Amtrak network on the Amtrak Track a Train map.


This map of the Military Memorial Park inwards Pákozd, Republic of Hungary claims to last "the world's highest spatial resolution aerial orthophoto map produced past times aeroplane". I don't know if that is truthful or non simply I hit similar the map.

Aerial Record role the Google Maps API equally a agency of presenting the high resolution aerial imagery equally a slippy interactive map. This agency that users tin zoom inwards together with pan roughly the picture equally they would hit a normal Google Map.

The aerial imagery itself actually is of high resolution. If yous zoom inwards on individuals on the map yous tin almost come across the color of their eyes.


The picture equally good contains a let out of descriptive overlays. If yous plough on 'descriptions' when yous zoom inwards on features inwards the commons yous tin discovery out to a greater extent than almost them past times reading the provided information.

The Maps Of The Week

Google Business Photos has been a huge excogitation on Google Maps inward the end 2 years. Being able to render indoor Street View imagery of delineate organisation premises has proved real pop acorss the globe.

If you lot ain a eating topographic point in addition to hence Google Business Photos is a bully agency to showcase your eating topographic point to potential customers. The eating topographic point GOSP inward Kingdom of Denmark has taken this concept a phase farther in addition to genuinely developed an indoor Street View tabular array booking system. Not solely tin potential customers accept a tour roughly the eating topographic point inward Google Maps Street View, merely if they similar the await of a detail tabular array in addition to hence they tin click on an overlaid mark in addition to majority that tabular array for dejeuner or dinner.

The Google Business Photos Booking System was developed past times Big-e, an e-business online evolution team. I tin encounter a huge potential for such a booking organisation non solely for restaurants merely for booking stadium in addition to theatre seats.


John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years agone inward Dallas, Texas. ESRI has position together a 3d map of Dealey Plaza inward Dallas, that should piece of occupation out on conspiracy theorists busy for the side past times side 50 years.

JFinteraKtif includes 3d buildings, the road of the president's car, the Grassy Knoll, the trajectory of the bullets fired from the 6th flooring window of the Texas School Book Depository edifice in addition to fifty-fifty the trajectories of some of the conspiracy theory shootings.

The map was created using information from primal witness statements in addition to is overlaid amongst photographs taken at the time. Links below the map allow the user to sentiment the map from the betoken of sentiment of primal positions (e.g. from the topographic point of the Grassy Knoll).


I've been linking to a lot of Torque powered maps over the end 2 weeks. Carto DB's Torque library is a bully agency to animate large amounts of information on Google Maps.

CartoDB has created some other superb instance of the library inward action. CartoDB's map of Nine Years of Tornadoes inward the U.S.A. animates through NOAA's National Weather Service data. The map includes a neat playback command that allows you lot to sentiment the animation chronologically or select to sentiment the information for whatsoever month.

The Maps Of The Week

The most shared map from Google this calendar week was this footling Video Map displaying over 700 videos of landmarks roughly the populace (yep, my map, too so I win).

The map is an update of an quondam Google Maps API v2 map I created 4 years agone too accept but updated to purpose v3 of the Maps API. The information for the map is thence a few years quondam at 1 time too so in that location powerfulness endure a few deleted videos inwards the collection.


ClimateViewer 3D uses the Google basis plug-in to rail climate modify too environmental pollution across the globe.

The application includes a large release of layers that tin endure viewed on a Google basis map. These include pollution layers, weather, satellites too emergency alerts. The pollution layer includes information from the Environmental Protection Agency too a layer displaying the Ten Most Radioactive Places on Earth

There are actually also many layers inwards ClimateViewer 3D to elevate them all. The application fifty-fifty includes the pick to charge your ain KML files (or KML files from elsewhere on the internet) too sentiment the file on the ClimateViewer Google basis map. 


TripStamp is a novel Google Maps application that allows anyone to easily practise a digital scrapbook of their trips too travels.

Log-in to TimeStamp alongside your Facebook draw of piece of job organisation human relationship too y'all tin speedily outset mapping your travels yesteryear adding places y'all accept visited to your ain trip map. You tin add together photos too videos to each identify that y'all add together to the map too y'all tin also add together your thoughts most each location.

Once y'all accept created a map of your trip y'all tin portion your TripStamp alongside friends too household unit of measurement on your favorite social networks.

The Google Maps Of The Week

Recently nosotros accept seen all the buildings inwards the Netherlands mapped past times historic catamenia of construction. Now nosotros accept a alive real-time map of all the buses inwards the Netherlands.

Ovzoeker is a Google Map that shows inwards real-time the pose of buses belonging to a let out of Dutch transit companies. The buses on the map are color-coded to request which transit companionship they belong to. If yous click on whatever 1 of the thousands of buses moving on this map yous tin thought where it is heading together with how early on or belatedly it is running.

This isn't the starting fourth dimension time we've seen a alive real-time map of a country's whole transit network. In Switzerland yous tin thought the whole Swiss rails network operating inwards real-time at SBB Network. In the USA yous tin thought all of the Amtrak network on the Amtrak Track a Train map.


This map of the Military Memorial Park inwards Pákozd, Republic of Hungary claims to last "the world's highest spatial resolution aerial orthophoto map produced past times aeroplane". I don't know if that is truthful or non simply I hit similar the map.

Aerial Record role the Google Maps API equally a agency of presenting the high resolution aerial imagery equally a slippy interactive map. This agency that users tin zoom inwards together with pan roughly the picture equally they would hit a normal Google Map.

The aerial imagery itself actually is of high resolution. If yous zoom inwards on individuals on the map yous tin almost come across the color of their eyes.


The picture equally good contains a let out of descriptive overlays. If yous plough on 'descriptions' when yous zoom inwards on features inwards the commons yous tin discovery out to a greater extent than almost them past times reading the provided information.

The Christmas Themed Maps Of The Week

Chocolate companionship Thorntons has created a slap-up application that lets y'all post a magical online Christmas Card featuring Raymond Briggs' cute Snowman graphic symbol (and Google Maps).

The Thorntons Facebook Christmas Message application allows y'all to post an animated Christmas message to a friend inwards which the Snowman is seen flight over their identify (using Google Maps satellite imagery) too fifty-fifty walks downward their street (using Street View).


The Wondrous Wellington Advent Calendar is too a wondrous interactive map, although y'all wouldn't know it exactly past times looking at it.

The Wellington, New Zealand Tourist Office has created a gorgeous looking online advent calendar featuring illustrations of good known landmarks some the city. Users tin explore the calendar to notice today's date, click on the engagement too uncovering a voucher that tin locomote redeemed at a Wellington business.

The calendar was created using the Leaflet JavaScript mapping library, but instead of using the green OpenStreetMap map tiles it has created a map from an instance of Wellington landmarks. The resultant is a beautiful looking Christmas drive promoting the urban meat of Wellington too local businesses.


Map Your Representatives is a handy application that helps y'all notice out who your political representatives are, from local councilor upward to the President himself, merely past times clicking on a Google Map.

Enter your zip-code or address into the search bar too a pivot volition locomote dropped on your location. The page volition therefore automatically scroll downward to expose all your local political representatives.

The map itself includes an attractive mask that creates a round down map. If y'all pan the map some the map marking remains inwards the view of the map too non on your searched for location. Simply click on the 'Update Location' push too the political representatives for the novel place volition locomote displayed on the map. 

The Maps Of The Week

You accept belike seen Hint.fm's beautiful Wind Map of the United States. You may likewise accept seen the Tokyo Wind Map, a similar animated map of real-time air current speeds too administration inward too only about Tokyo.

The developers behind the Tokyo Wind Map accept directly created an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than impressive visualization of close real-time global conditions conditions. Like Hint.fm too the Tokyo Wind Map, Earth uses D3.js to exercise an interactive map that displays air current speeds inward close real-time, alone this fourth dimension the map is a gorgeous 3d globe.


I'm a sucker for real-time animated maps, thus London on Trend was most for sure to characteristic inward this week's Maps of the Week. London on Trend perfectly captures the measurement of urban substance life inward the English linguistic communication upper-case alphabetic lineament through a alive real-time Google Map of photos submitted to Instagram inward London.

As presently every bit yous larn inward London on Trend Instagram photos laid out dropping on a Google Map of London. You tin dismiss too then only sit down dorsum too sentry every bit novel photos are continuously added to the map every bit Londoners submit photos to Instagram.


The championship of most shared map of the calendar week most larn to Empire.is. The United States of America of America has good over 700 armed forces bases across the planet alongside official facilities inward at to the lowest degree 37 countries. Empire.is is a map showing the place of United States of America of America armed forces installations, non alone inward the US but only about the world.

As good every bit mapping known United States of America of America armed forces installations Empire.es likewise provides aerial imagery of a large divulge of the bases, sourced from Google too Bing Maps.

The information for the armed forces locations is from the 2013 Base Structure Report too from sites reported past times journalists too geographers. The writer of the map says that at that topographic point are all the same many armed forces bases missing from the map.

The Maps Of The Week

You accept belike seen Hint.fm's beautiful Wind Map of the United States. You may likewise accept seen the Tokyo Wind Map, a similar animated map of real-time air current speeds too administration inward too only about Tokyo.

The developers behind the Tokyo Wind Map accept directly created an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than impressive visualization of close real-time global conditions conditions. Like Hint.fm too the Tokyo Wind Map, Earth uses D3.js to exercise an interactive map that displays air current speeds inward close real-time, alone this fourth dimension the map is a gorgeous 3d globe.


I'm a sucker for real-time animated maps, thus London on Trend was most for sure to characteristic inward this week's Maps of the Week. London on Trend perfectly captures the measurement of urban substance life inward the English linguistic communication upper-case alphabetic lineament through a alive real-time Google Map of photos submitted to Instagram inward London.

As presently every bit yous larn inward London on Trend Instagram photos laid out dropping on a Google Map of London. You tin dismiss too then only sit down dorsum too sentry every bit novel photos are continuously added to the map every bit Londoners submit photos to Instagram.


The championship of most shared map of the calendar week most larn to Empire.is. The United States of America of America has good over 700 armed forces bases across the planet alongside official facilities inward at to the lowest degree 37 countries. Empire.is is a map showing the place of United States of America of America armed forces installations, non alone inward the US but only about the world.

As good every bit mapping known United States of America of America armed forces installations Empire.es likewise provides aerial imagery of a large divulge of the bases, sourced from Google too Bing Maps.

The information for the armed forces locations is from the 2013 Base Structure Report too from sites reported past times journalists too geographers. The writer of the map says that at that topographic point are all the same many armed forces bases missing from the map.

The Maps Of The Week

We've featured a lot of Carto DB Torque powered maps inwards the final month. This animated map of the geography of 400,000 hours of TV intelligence is with the almost interesting.

The Internet Archive geo-coded 400,000 hours of the United States of America tv set intelligence in addition to mapped the locations mentioned inwards each report. The Animated Geography of TV News map animates through the locations mentioned inwards the intelligence providing a swell visualization of the countries in addition to areas that have the almost attending in addition to the areas which are neglected past times American intelligence (sorry Africa).


I dear the slide command inwards the maps featured inwards this Urban Institute interactive. Washington DC - Our Changing City is a written report on the population changes happening inwards Washington DC.

The interactive written report includes a serial of maps comparison population in addition to demographic changes inwards the American uppercase betwixt 2000 in addition to 2010. Each map includes a slide command that allows the user to swipe across the map to compare the differences inwards point maps from the twelvemonth 2000 in addition to 2010.

I've seen this type of slide command used earlier to compare earlier in addition to afterward photographs. For example, I used a like command to compare aerial imagery from earlier in addition to afterward the 2011 tornado inwards Tuscaloosa. However this is the showtime fourth dimension I've seen a slide command used to compare 2 unlike map layers.


Johannes Gutenberg's excogitation of mechanical movable type printing inwards the 15th century was belike the almost of import regain inwards the modern age. Gutenberg's excogitation arguably kick-started the Renaissance in addition to undoubtedly led to the spread of learning with the full general population inwards Europe.

The Atlas of Early Printing is a Google Map charting the spread of printing, from Gutenberg's showtime movable type printer inwards 1452 inwards Mainz to the residual of Europe past times the cease of the 15th century. The map includes a timeline that allows you lot to visualize the rising of printing presses throughout Europe over the course of study of the 15th century.


If you lot are bored at schoolhouse don't only sit down at that spot mindlessly staring into space, decease your telephone out in addition to percentage your boredom with the residual of the world.

The Real Time #Bored inwards School Map is a real-time map showing Tweets past times schoolkids who are bored inwards class. Since the map went alive on the 16th Dec at that spot has been over 43,000 bored Tweets. That is a lot of bored students.

As good every bit the map of alive Tweets the app keeps a running full of the seat out of 'bored' messages in addition to a alive business nautical chart of the seat out of Tweets made over the final hour.

The Maps Of The Week

This Geologic Map of the Grand Canyon wins the prize for the most gorgeous map of the week. The map uses the Leaflet mapping platform alongside USGS information to create an interactive geologic map of the Grand Canyon.

If you lot mouse-over the map the make-up of the geologic strata at that place is automatically displayed on the map. If you lot click on the map it scrolls off the page to acquaint a to a greater extent than detailed breakdown of the geographic strata at the selected location.


I similar the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland as well as I similar Russia. But which is better? There's alone 1 agency to to notice out ...

MapFight!

MapFight is a fun lilliputian application that allows you lot to compare the size of whatsoever 2 states, countries or continents. Just bespeak 2 locations from the 2 drop-down menus as well as 2 unlike colored maps volition seem superimposed on each other.

The maps render a handy visual guide to the size of the chosen 2 countries. MapFight likewise tells you lot how many times bigger the larger reason is inwards comparing to the smaller country.


Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent inquiry newspaper claiming a link betwixt the measles vaccination as well as autism proved to survive an international wellness disaster. Many parents or as well as so the globe refused the vaccination for their children leading to a ascent inwards measles inwards many countries.

While this map of Vaccine Preventable Outbreaks starts inwards 1998 as well as thus doesn't demonstrate the virtually immediate huge increase inwards measles later Wakefield's newspaper it does demonstrate some balance detrimental effects of the paper, equally many parents are yet refusing to accept their children immunized against measles.

Of course of report the ascent inwards measles is non the alone tragedy visualized past times this Google Map. The map plots global outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, as well as other diseases that are easily preventable past times cheap as well as effective vaccines.


I'm a large fan of the e'er fascinating Etymology Maps thread on Reddit. The thread features give-and-take maps, maps that visualize 1 mutual give-and-take inwards all the unlike languages of Europe. For example, 'Christmas' inwards European languages, 'Meat' inwards European languages as well as 'Clock' inwards European languages.

James Trimble is likewise a large fan of the Reddit thread as well as patch browsing the maps had a flake of an epiphany. He realized that you lot could purpose the Google Translate API alongside D3 to create an interactive Etymology Map that allows you lot to visualize whatsoever give-and-take that you lot desire inwards all the unlike European languages.

The termination is the European Word Translator. H5N1 map that uses the Google Translate API to demonstrate you lot the European translations of whatsoever word. Just type a give-and-take into the search box as well as you lot tin post away thought on the D3 map all the translations of the give-and-take inwards all the European countries.

The Maps Of The Week

The Guardian's In Flight – Interactive Map is an amazing mapped presentation looking at the history of commercial air travel.

The interactive even out features an animated map visualizing 24 hours of airplane flights some the the world together with a narrated documentary looking at the nativity of commercial flights, the evolution of international air go together with a await at the potential time to come for the industry.

The In Flight map was developed for The Guardian past times Kiln, a data visualization start-up based inwards London.


Skoda has used the popular Hyperlapse Street View animation tool to practice a cool promotional website for the Rapid Spaceback.

The Rapid Spaceback website lets you lot sentiment a expose of animated journeys on Google Maps Street View. To spice upward the activity the site has added a expose of filters that you lot tin dismiss apply to the animated route, including a kaleidoscope or mirror view. You tin dismiss also select from a expose of unlike soundtracks to accompany your drive.

The site includes a expose of prepared routes from famous locations some the world. You tin dismiss also practice your ain road past times selecting a starting signal together with a goal on a Google Map.


From the insect chorus of the Kalimantan to the crooning baritone vocal of an Atlantic humpback whale, this map wants to serenade you lot amongst the sounds of nature. The Nature Soundmap is a map featuring the sounds of nature captured past times professional person nature recordists some the world.

Maps accept ever been a fascinating agency to explore the globe. Satellite imagery together with Street View imagery accept made armchair exploring fifty-fifty to a greater extent than immersive. Add inwards the sounds of the monsoon inwards Kalimantan together with the soundscape of the Brazilian rain-forest together with you lot tin dismiss nearly imagine that you lot actually accept been transported to the other side of the world.

The Maps Of The Week

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel map from the New York Times uses information from the Census Bureau to demo the percentages of people living below the poverty trouble inwards each census tract inwards the USA. The Mapping Poverty inwards America visualization uses the Google Maps API to render poverty per centum rates too the numbers living inwards poverty inwards each USA census tract.

You tin zoom inwards on the map to sentiment the poverty levels at whatsoever place or you lot tin role the links nether the map to rapidly zoom to a let on of the larger US cities.



Thanks to ProPublica nosotros forthwith get got a Google Map that allows you lot to discovery nearby emergency rooms too discovery out which has the shortest average waiting time. The ER Wait Watcher lets you lot search for whatsoever address inwards the U.S.A. of America too visualize all nearby emergency rooms. Not solely does it demo you lot all your nearby emergency rooms only it displays the average waiting times too tells you lot how long it volition accept to choke in that place from your electrical current location.

 
The Mozilla Location Service provides geolocation information based on jail mobile telephone tower too WiFi access signal information. Mobile phones alongside a weak GPS signal too laptops without GPS hardware tin role the service to rapidly lay an estimate location.

You tin meet where the service is available on the novel Mozilla Location Service Coverage Map. The map was created alongside MapBox too uses a nighttime variation of Mozilla’s custom maps, using Mozilla's typography for the map labels. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pretty great characteristic of the map is how the labels are layered on summit of the bluish information points too thus that users tin yet easily navigate the map.

The Google Maps Of The Week

Isochrone maps exhibit go times from a given location. Travel Time is a cracking illustration of an isochrone map created alongside the Google Maps API.

Travel Time allows users inward iv the U.S.A. cities to respect out the go times from whatever location inward each of the cities. Click anywhere inward Denver, San Francisco, Seattle or Boulder as well as you lot tin persuasion an isochrone map of the fourth dimension it volition induce got to go anywhere inward the metropolis on the populace transit system.

The map includes the alternative to include 2 points of origin, hence that you lot tin compare the go times from both locations. It fifty-fifty includes an alternative to persuasion the go times for unlike days of the calendar week as well as for unlike times of the day.


The Anti-Corruption Foundation are celebrating the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics alongside a Google Map identifying officials as well as businessmen who induce got turned the games into a handy source of income. The map allows users to uncovering the corruption behind the venues as well as infrastructure built for the games as well as the individuals who induce got profited.

The Champions of Corruption map categorizes the corruption into 5 'different sports', 'Classic Embezzlement', 'Verbal Freestyle', 'Ecological Multi-Sport', 'Pair Contract' as well as 'Figure Lending'. The navigation buttons at the summit of the map allow the user to navigate to as well as larn virtually the corruption behind the venues, persuasion the overall corruption 'winners' as well as to persuasion a breakdown of the overall toll of the 2014 Winter Olympics.


Google has re-released it's pop LEGO as well as Google Maps application Build alongside Chrome. Build alongside Chrome lets you lot blueprint as well as build your ain creation alongside LEGO bricks as well as hence house it on a Google Map of the world.

Build alongside Chrome has been but about for a span of years now. However until at in 1 lawsuit your carefully constructed LEGO edifice was placed somewhere on a map of Australia. Build alongside Chrome has at in 1 lawsuit gone worldwide.

If you lot but desire to explore the creations already added to the map but click on the 'Explore All Builds' link on the habitation page as well as you lot volition go taken to a Google Map, where you lot tin browse all the LEGO buildings that induce got been created but about the world.