The Map To Nerd Heaven

Vasile Cotovanu has created the map to nerd sky in addition to it involves taking the train. Vasile's real-time simulator of the Swiss runway network has long been 1 of my favorite maps. It is at 1 time fifty-fifty better.

The SBB Network is a real-time map of the Swiss runway organization based on the network's published timetable. The map allows you lot to persuasion animated trains moving inwards real-time on a Google Map. Actually until today the map has allowed you lot to lookout adult man map markers moving simply about on a map. Only now you lot tin persuasion actual trains.

Vasile's latest update to the map way that when you lot switch to satellite persuasion the map icons alter to images of existent trains moving simply about the map. The screenshot higher upward doesn't create the map justice. In the screenshot you lot tin simply brand out 3 trains. The trains are genuinely much easier to alternative out on the map - because they are moving.

My tip for using the map is to click on an private train. This loads an data window most the selected train's schedule. The data window includes a 'Follow' button. Click the follow push to perish on the map centered on your selected train!

For at 1 time this existent prepare characteristic is solely available inwards the expanse simply about the Zürich Oerlikon area. Zürich Oerlikon is 1 of the busiest prepare stations inwards Switzerland. There is a prepare passing through the station every 2-3 minutes in addition to then you lot should move able to honour enough of trains to follow.

As I ever suspected the journeying to nerd sky is past times train.

Climbing The 3D Matterhorn

MapBox has created a serial of maps using about amazing aerial imagery of the Matterhorn captured past times drones. The imagery was collected past times Sensefly.

Among the maps is this interactive 3d Pointcloud Matterhorn which allows y'all to explore the imagery inward 3d. Mapbox has too created a mosaic map using the drone captured imagery too a relief map using the UAV sourced information from the drone fly-over of the mountain.

Geobeers Inwards Switzerland

The Swiss Beer Map is an interesting map of breweries inwards Switzerland. OK, it isn't genuinely that interesting. However at that spot are a duet of reasons why I wanted to convey this map to your attention.

Firstly, the Swiss Beer Map is the commencement fourth dimension that I've seen Mapbox's Comic Sans inspired vector map tiles beingness used inwards the wild. This map agency e'er brings a smiling to my aspect upward too thus I'm happy to reckon it beingness used used inwards this project.

Secondly the map was created past times GeoBeerCH. GeoBeerCH is an informal coming together of Swiss people interested inwards geography, GIS, cartography too the latest technologies. This map gives me the perfect excuse to inform y'all almost their adjacent meet-up, which is adjacent calendar week on May, sixth at 6.30pm at the Bahnhofrestaurant inwards Olten,

While nosotros are on the topic of geo meet-ups, the adjacent Geomob number is on May 13th at 6.30pm at the Pearson Lecture Theatre, UCL, London.

The Swiss Cantons Of Football

By right away I assume that you lot bring seen the New York Times' maps of the Basketball Nation as well as the Baseball Nation. These maps demo the back upwards of the U.S.A. baseball game as well as basketball game teams based on the locations of their Facebook fans.

Swiss paper Tages Anzeiger has created a similar mapped visualization showing the geography of football game back upwards inwards the country. Die Hochburgen der Schweizer Fussballfans colors the map based on the domicile addresses of flavor ticket holders of Swiss football game teams. The color indicates the dominant gild inwards each neighborhood. The intensity of the color indicates the reveal of fans buying flavor tickets inwards the area.

It is likewise possible to direct private teams from a drop-down carte to persuasion the degree of their back upwards throughout the country.

Happy Birthday Switzerland

Today is Swiss National Day, a national vacation to grade the signing of the Federal Charter. In early on August 1291 iii Alpine cantons swore the oath of confederation, an activeness which is forthwith seen to direct hold been the foundation of Switzerland.

To celebrate Swiss National Day Vasile Coțovanu has released an animated time-line map, Accession of the Cantons to the Swiss Confederation, which shows when each of the cantons became members of the federal dry reason of Switzerland. Play the time-line too the map automatically highlights each canton on the appointment it joined the federation. You tin too select each canton on the map to acquire the appointment when it joined Switzerland.

The base of operations map used inwards the time-line is the superb Swisstopo topographical map. It is worth setting the time-line to 1291 too merely zooming inwards on the mountains of Switzerland to admire this amazing topographical map.

Version 1 of this map genuinely used Google Maps. If you lot desire to sentiment the Google Maps API version you lot tin practise so here.


Once you lot direct hold studied the Accession of the Cantons map you lot tin examine out your noesis of Swizz geography on Vasile Coțovanu's Swiss Geopuzzle. In the game you lot direct hold to drag polygons of the Swiss cantons onto their right place on the map. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 timer keeps rail of how long it takes you lot to consummate the game too your electrical current score is too displayed on the map.

This game uses the draggable polygons selection inwards the Google Maps API. The code for the Vasile Geopuzzle is available on GitHub too tin hold upwards easily customized for whatever expanse inwards the world. To create your ain puzzle amongst the code all you lot genuinely demand is the GeoJSON information for the polygons you lot wishing to use.

The game too makes effective role of Vasile's pop Masked Polygons library. The Masked Polygon library is used to define the boundary of the game. For example, inwards the Switzerland Cantons game Switzerland is highlighted on the map using the masked polygon library. Consequently players tin clearly come across the expanse of game-play on the map.

Tracking The Bike Thieves

Earlier this year Seismograph released an interesting map showing Where Your Bicycle is Most Likely to Get Stolen inwards San Francisco. The map plots the location of every wheel theft reported to the San Francisco police pull inwards 2013.

The map uses an interesting organization of concentric circles to present locations where to a greater extent than than i bike was stolen. You tin mouse-over the private circles to give away the fourth dimension together with appointment of each bike theft. Seismograph likewise render a useful bar nautical chart that shows yous at what fourth dimension of twenty-four hr menstruum your bike is close probable to perish stolen.

Judging past times the map it mightiness hold upwardly a expert reckon non to common your bike on Market Street, at the Ferry Building or exterior Mission BART.


Swiss paper Le Matin Dimanche has taken a dissimilar approach to mapping bike thefts. The paper hid GPS tracking devices inwards iii bikes. They together with thus left the bikes inwards iii Swiss cities Bern, Geneva together with Zurich together with waited for them to hold upwardly stolen.

Over 40,000 bikes a twelvemonth are stolen inwards Switzerland every twelvemonth together with the Le Matin Dimanche were interested to come across what happens to these bikes i time they are stolen. By tracking the stolen bikes the paper was interested to detect out what form of people pocket bikes together with what they practise amongst their stolen bicycles.

Using the GPS information from the stolen bikes they were able to practise a StoryMap for each city, plotting the get of each bike inwards the days later its theft.

In Geneva the showtime fourth dimension the bike was stolen it was taken to a Cash Converters store together with sold for 200 Francs. The managing director of the store revealed that the thief was a regular seller of bikes. Le Matin Dimanche together with thus placed the bike exterior a police pull station to come across if that would deter the bike thieves. It was presently stolen again.

The showtime theft of the bike left inwards Bern ended upwardly inwards a woman's garage. The paper retrieved the bike from the garage's owner. She claimed that the bike had been abandoned at that spot together with she was planning to study the stolen bike to the police. In Bern the bike was likewise stolen past times a xv twelvemonth onetime schoolboy who claimed that he reckon the bike had already been stolen together with he did non intend to continue the bike.

In Zurich the bike was stolen past times a human being described past times locals every bit a 'drug addict' together with sold to a cabaret dancer for l Francs.

Mapping Geneva's Regeneration

The Jardin des Nations projection inwards Geneva is slow transforming the International District of the city. The projection involves the construction of novel buildings, the extension of the tram network in addition to novel route infrastructure. Le Temps has released a storey map Les Grands Chantiers de la Genève Internationale (The Major Projects of Geneva International) exploring around of the major changes taking house inwards the district.

To navigate the map you lot merely require to scroll downwards on the website. As you lot scroll through the storey map you lot tin strength out thought photos in addition to plans of the novel construction projects inwards the side panel, spell the map zooms in addition to pans to highlight the projects on the map. The side panel every minute good includes text (in French) explaining each projection in addition to each project's construction date.