The 1885 Map Of Crimea

The Crimean War (1853-56) betwixt the Russians on i side too the British, French, too Ottoman Turkish on the other, was fought mainly on the Crimean peninsular. In 1885 the Nouvelle Carte de la Crimée, lithographed past times Caron-Delamarre, was published inward Paris.

OldNewMaps has overlain this 1885 French map of the Crimea on a Google Map. The map includes a transparency command too hence that you lot tin flame compare the historical map of the Crimean peninsular alongside the modern Google Map. The map tin flame besides hold upward viewed overlaid on an OpenStreetMap of Crimea.

Ukraine's World Transit Wayfinder

EasyWay is a world transit route-finding together with directions application for l cities inwards Ukraine. The app allows passengers to transcend directions betwixt whatever 2 locations on Ukraine's trams, buses together with underground systems.

The application uses a familiar format of allowing users to piece of job inwards a starting betoken together with goal together with presenting a suggested road on a Google Map, amongst step-by-step instructions provided inwards the map sidebar. The step-by pace guide for each journeying includes estimated move times together with the terms of the journey.

EasyWay too includes markers for airports together with major develop stations on the map, which is real handy for apace finding routes betwixt the major carry hubs.

Ukraine - A Pose Down Divided

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With the province of affairs changing virtually daily it is difficult to remain abreast of events inwards Ukraine. However a motion painting is worth a thou words together with a real-time motion painting is worth a thou more. Therefore I bring spent this forenoon exploring Ukraine on EchoSEC.

The EchoSec application displays social media messages together with photos from Instagram, Twitter together with Foursquare only about whatever location. The link to a higher house has a bounding-box only about Independence Square inwards Kiev. Beneath the map y'all tin thought a serial of the latest photos submitted to Instagram, many of them showing the protests inwards Kiev.


H5N1 map is equally good worth a thou words together with both the Washington Post together with Big Think bring created maps that aid explicate the huge political split upward inwards Ukraine. The Washington Post has mapped the 2010 Ukraine election results together with Big Think the 2004 election results.

Both maps demo a province virtually split inwards one-half inwards their back upward for President Viktor Yanukovych or the Pro-European party. The president is pushing for always to a greater extent than closer ties amongst Russian Federation whilst the Pro-Europeans want closer integration amongst the European Union. The Washington Post map equally good attempts to demo where the protests against Yanukovych are taking place, showing that at the minute the protests are virtually solely inwards the areas where the Pro-European Party bring most electoral support.

Tracking Flying 17

I've seen a publish of impressive images maps showing the place where Malaysia Airlines flying M17 was shot downwardly over Ukraine. Now the Wall Street Journal has released the get-go decent interactive map that I've seen.

Tracking Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shows the flying path of flying 17 on July 17th, the appointment of the crash. The map equally good allows yous to sentiment flying paths of flying 17 inwards the months preceding the crash in addition to the paths taken since the bird was fatally shot down.

The map shows that Flight M17 was flying inside the commons flying path. You tin dismiss equally good run across how Flight 17 since the crash is making a broad berth of Ukrainian air space.

Mapping The Crisis Inward Ukraine

Liveuamap is a Google Map reporting incidents from the crisis inward Ukraine. The map is a nonprofit, volunteer run projection alongside a mission to inform the the world near the on-going conflict inward Ukraine.

The latest events inward the province are plotted on the map using categorized map markers as well as are too listed inward a map side-panel. The bluish map markers relate to Ukrainian authorities actions as well as the cherry markers demonstrate the actions of the pro-Russian rebels.

The map includes a appointment picker as well as hence that yous tin choose to persuasion reported incidents from whatsoever appointment during the conflict. It too includes dynamic URL's as well as hence that yous conduct link to whatsoever incident reported on the map.

Google Maps Russia's Attacks On Ukraine

The Cross-Border Artillery Attacks map identifies bear witness of Russian attacks on Ukraine using the latest Google Maps satellite imagery.

To practise the map Google Map satellite images of eastern Ukraine taken inwards August together with September of this twelvemonth were analysed for bear witness of artillery craters. The Russian artillery attacks were identified from the bear witness of large (several metres inwards diameter) artillery craters.

The map too shows the administration of the trajectory for each of the artillery attacks using artillery crater analysis. Two Russian artillery attacks confirmed past times USA Government satellite images are too included on the map.

The map for certain seems to stimulate got compelling bear witness that many of the identified artillery craters are the lawsuit of cross-border artillery burn downwardly from across the Russian border. More data near the map together with the analysis techniques used to pose the artillery craters together with the trajectories of the attacks tin last institute on the Map Investigations blog.

Flight Mh17 - The Hunt For The Truth

Correct!v has released an in-depth investigation into the shooting downwards of Malaysia Airlines flying MH17 over Eastern Ukraine on July 17th 2014. Flight MH17 - Searching for the Truth provides detailed show suggesting that MH17 was downed yesteryear a ground-launched BUK missile which was fired yesteryear a unit of measurement of the 53rd Russian Air Defense Brigade.

The written report includes eye-witness accounts from the missile launch site, rebuttals of Russian counter-claims in addition to interviews amongst Ukrainian separatists. However piece Correct!v clearly blames Russian Federation for bringing downwards flying MH17 they equally good tell that the Ukrainian authorities are non precisely blameless. They claim that the authorities were deliberately using civilian flights equally comprehend for air attacks on Russian tanks.

The written report includes an animated map showing air traffic over the site of the downed MH17 on July 17th. The map equally good includes flying information for July 18th showing the immediate reduction inwards flying traffic over the surface area equally airlines realized that these flying paths were no longer safe.

Mapping Infrastructure Harm Inwards Ukraine

The UN Development Programme as well as the Ukrainian NGO Social Boost convey collaborated to unloose a mobile application which allows residents inwards Donetsk as well as Lugansk to map impairment to buildings.

Using the application residents inwards in the war-torn percentage of East Ukraine tin compass the axe upload data as well as photos of buildings which convey been damaged inwards the fighting. The data tin compass the axe thus last used past times assistance agencies to assist restore critical infrastructure inwards the area.

Data uploaded using the app appears on the Redonbass interactive map. The Redonbass map includes links to download the app from the App Store or Google Play.