The Atmospheric Precipitation Regulation Of Music

I accept a theory that the makers of the Manchester Music Map laid upwards out to map the world's best stone bands. Then, afterwards completing Manchester, realized that the project was done.

After all it is an inarguable fact that the 3 best stone bands of all time, The Buzzcocks, The Stone Roses in addition to The Smiths all started their careers inwards the damp metropolis of Manchester. After mapping those 3 bands at that spot actually was no demand to continue.

I accept approximately other theory.

The argue that all of the world's greatest bands accept emanated from Manchester is because of the rain. More pelting falls on Manchester on an average week-day afternoon than falls annually inwards the residual of the globe ^{[citation needed]}. It can't live on a coincidence that the alone other cities to consistently hit dandy stone bands, London in addition to Seattle, equally good have to a greater extent than than their fair percentage of pelting

All of which is a rather long winded agency of proverb - if you lot similar dandy stone music in addition to hence you lot volition dear the Manchester Music Map.

Over 700 Videos On I Google Map

I locomote got around to updating 1 of my API v2 maps to v3 of the Google Maps API. Video Map is a Google Map of over 700 videos of landmarks around the world.

All you lot convey to produce is click on a marking on the map as well as you lot tin as well as hence picket a YouTube video filmed at the selected location. After watching a video only locomote the 'Zoom Out' push to provide to the globe map view.

The information for the map is a few years former right away hence in that place powerfulness live a few deleted videos inwards the collection.

London - Straight Off & Then

I dearest Claude Friese-Greene's The Open Road, an early on color cinema of London, shot inwards the 1920's. I've used clips from the cinema inwards my ain There too Then Street View app. There too Then superimposes vintage cinema footage on exceed of the same view, equally y'all tin run across today inwards Google Maps Street View.



Simon Smith besides loves The Open Road. In fact he loved it thus much that he decided to reshoot the film, shot-for-shot, inwards today's London. The resulting video, London inwards 1927 & 2013, shows Smith's modern cinema side-by-side amongst the London scenes from The Open Road.

Happy Birthday Gio!

I'm non certain who Gio is merely he has a lot of friends unopen to the world, all of whom were happy to part video birthday greetings alongside him on this personal Google Map.

Happy Birthday Gio uses the Google Maps API Styled Maps characteristic to exercise a distinctive, personal map for Gio's especial day. The map features videos from Gio's friends from all unopen to the world, which tin move watched straight from the map.

H5N1 personal birthday map is such a sugariness idea. I bet it made Gio's day.

Mind Blowing Satellite Video Mapping

I told y'all that MapBox was innovating!

The video higher upward shows hard disk video footage captured from Skybox’s SkySat-1 paired alongside the MapBox mapping platform. Using a mapping interface alongside the video allows users to pan, zoom in addition to rotate the video equally it plays.

Is your ask heed blown? Read to a greater extent than almost this map on the MapBox blog.

On a assort exactly related banknote I've been regularly checking on the progress of UrtheCast. UrtheCast has directly installed a hard disk video photographic tv set camera on the International Space Station. Soon they volition start to alive broadcast video footage of the public from space. They are going to liberate around UrtheCast API's, in addition to thus hopefully developers may good hold upward able to practice their rattling ain satellite video maps using footage from the ISS.

Oh God, It's To A Greater Extent Than Or Less Other Eurovision Map

It's Eurovision time. Right straight off on a TV channel around you lot the best of Europe's aspiring vocal writers are competing inwards this year's Eurovision vocal contest. God accept mercy on our souls.

If you lot can't survive bothered to sentinel through hours of awful music hence you lot tin instead browse through hours of awful music on this Eurovision Map, brought to you lot past times Pinq Map, the existent gay map of the world.

If you lot are a existent sucker for aural penalization you lot tin banking corporation agree out around previous years' Eurovision contests on these maps:

Eurovision Contest 2010
Winners of the Eurovision Contest 1956-2009

Time Traveling Inwards Street View

Now that Google Maps are offering you lot the peril to larn dorsum inwards fourth dimension together with re-visit updated Street View imagery I idea it powerfulness last an appropriate 2nd to remind you lot of my ain Street View time-traveling map.

There together with Then superimposes vintage cinema footage on summit of Street View to assistance carry you lot dorsum to a dissimilar age. Using the map you lot tin sentiment vintage cinema of 1930's San Francisco, London inwards the 1920's together with New York inwards the 1900's. The map too includes a divulge of other vintage videos from locations across the globe, all of which you lot tin sentiment on the same scene today - every bit captured yesteryear Google Maps Street View.

Google Maps Drone View

You tin hold out certain that Google already has subway scheme plans to unleash a fleet of Street View drones on the world. My gauge is that Google's drones volition hold out tasked alongside non exclusively capturing aerial thought imagery for Google Maps simply volition sniff out homes alongside protected wifi in addition to take those homes from the map forever through the judicious piece of employment of targeted missiles.

If y'all can't await for Drone View imagery to officially seem on Google Maps y'all tin instead catch TravelByDrone. TravelByDrone is a actually interesting Google Map of video footage taken yesteryear drones or in addition to then the world. The map includes some fascinating aerial video footage captured yesteryear people using drones equipped alongside video cameras.

Many of the videos featured on the map are of a really high character in addition to render a unique aerial thought of locations or in addition to then the world. TravelByDrone already features a lot of drone captured videos. It likewise includes an pick to submit a drone video to the map in addition to then TravelByDrone should larn a keen key repository of aerial videos shot yesteryear unmanned drones.

Satellite Video Mapping - Piece Of Employment Two

Mapbox get got created a stunning demo of a video of basis taken from satellite embedded inside an interactive map.

Back inward March Mapbox released a video of a map containing video captured past times Skybox's SkySat-1. In the Mapbox video you lot tin run into that the SkySat-1 video is embedded on a map in addition to therefore that the user tin zoom in addition to pan into the video every bit you lot tin amongst whatsoever interactive slippy map.

Of kind out I wanted to examine in addition to run into if this was possible using the Google Maps API. My offset unsmooth (and rubbish) examine to examine mapping Skybox's video of the Burj Khalifa was Satview. This map exactly places a div chemical cistron containing the video over the map. So if you lot pan the map the video won't movement amongst the map.

Mapbox's novel map genuinely uses an overlay to embed the video on the map in addition to therefore that it scales in addition to moves every bit you lot zoom in addition to pan the map. Video inward Mapbox shows satellite imagery of Maryland, shot from infinite inward January, on elevation of the static Mapbox satellite imagery. Not solely tin you lot pan in addition to zoom into the video on the map you lot tin rotate it every bit well.

Now that's impressive!

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.

24 Hours Of Global Happiness

Late end yr Pharrell Williams released a 24 lx minutes video of his vocal Happy. You tin sentinel the video at 24 Hours of Happy. When you lot catch 24 Hours of Happy you lot are dropped into a lay inwards the video based on your local time. However you lot tin role the stop-clock command to navigate to whatsoever indicate inside the 24 hours of the video.

One number of the video was that people unopen to the the world decided to brand their ain Happy videos. We Are Happy From is an Esri map featuring these global video responses. Click on a marking on the map together with you lot tin sentinel people unopen to the the world getting downwards to Pharrell's Happy song.

You mightiness too similar - The Top Ten Street View Music Videos

Bike Video Routes Inwards Berlin

Grab your virtual wheel helmet as well as accept a ride through the Tiergarten as well as the Brandenburg Gate as well as along the Unter den Linden alongside Cyclodeo's novel wheel video coverage inward Berlin. Cyclodeo's mission to video all the world's wheel paths has taken approximately other pace forrad alongside the liberate of video mapped wheel routes for Berlin.

Cyclodeo is a actually useful application that enables cyclists to detect cycling routes on a Google Map as well as preview the road yesteryear watching a video of it existence ridden. With this novel liberate Cyclodeo has added 86 wheel rides inward Berlin roofing to a greater extent than than 200 km. Even if yous aren't a Berlin cyclist yous tin role these novel video routes to accept a virtual tour of Berlin.

Once you've taken inward Berlin on Cyclodeo yous tin deed on to persuasion wheel video routes inward San Francisco, New York, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen as well as Eindhoven.

Around Norway On Video

Norwegian idiot box channel NRK has released a video map featuring clips from the pop idiot box programme Norge Rundt. Norge Rundt (Around Norway) has been broadcasting since 1976, featuring local stories from NRK offices approximately Norway.

Kart hos NRK has mapped 2,064 video clips from Norge Rundt, all of which tin sack move watched straight from the map. The map allows Norwegians to discovery as well as sentinel local Norge Rundt items which convey been broadcast from their surface area of the country.

The map uses an interesting marking clustering arrangement which industrial plant good when only a few video clips are existence mapped to the same location. However it becomes a piddling messy when you lot convey a lot of videos all mapped at the same place (see screenshot above). This propose that Kart hos NRK notwithstanding has a piddling move to create inwards to a greater extent than accurately geo-tagging the place of some of the Norge Rundt clips.

Mapping Generation Mauerfall

25 years later the autumn of the Berlin Wall Google has interviewed twenty-five young Germans to honour out what life is similar inward the reunified Germany. Google's #Deutschland25 features twenty-five interviews amongst individualswho convey grown-up inward Germany's Generation Mauerfall.

In the interviews manager as well as journalist Bettina Blümner questions twenty-five extraordinary immature Germans nearly their lives, hopes as well as dreams for the future. #Deutschland25 too includes a prominent Google Map which allows y'all to sentiment comments that other Germans convey left on the website as well as to function out your ain comments nearly life as well as the of import social issues inward Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany today.

The Musical Highways Of America

The Foo Fighters Sonic Highways is a fascinating documentary, directed yesteryear David Grohl, exploring the viii metropolis journeying undertaken yesteryear the band to tape their latest album. The band recorded 1 vocal inward each city, featuring local musicians from each of the visited cities.

The Foo Fighters Sonic Highways is far to a greater extent than than simply a documentary nearly the recording of the album. Each episode delves into the identity of the featured city, exploring how place influences music in addition to the musicians who alive there. In each metropolis Grohl interviews good known musicians in addition to discusses the local music scene in addition to its influence on their musical careers.

The Foo Fighters Sonic Highways Map provides an interesting introduction to the documentary. The map includes interesting musical landmarks inward each of the viii cities visited. It equally good includes a video excerpt from each episode inward the documentary featuring 1 of Grohl's interviews amongst a famous local musician.

You tin forcefulness out sentinel each episode of the documentary inward sum on the HBO website.

Synchronized Video Mapping

This Awesome Speedflying map is a expire defying fountain into or together with hence corking old-school video mapping. It has been a piece since I've seen a expert video synchronized amongst a Google Map only it has been worth the wait.

Awesome Speedflying is a first-person video thought of someone paragliding from the Alps inwards Switzerland. As the video plays yous tin follow the rails together with position of the paraglider on a Google Map. The playback command of the video includes a timeline together with height command together with hence yous tin also follow the superlative of the paraglider every 2nd he descends together with lands.

The map was created amongst TrackSphere, a tool for synchronizing video amongst location, elevation together with speed information on a Google Map. If yous similar the Awesome Speedflying map yous tin detect many other corking examples of synchronized video maps on TrackSphere.

The Giant 2015 Parisian Geoglyph

Ready for 2015 celebrated the commencement of 2015 past times creating a giant geoglyph inwards Paris through the medium of jogging. Using RunKeeper 'Ready for 2015' has tracked out the figures '2015' on the streets of Paris. What's to a greater extent than they bring equally good created a dainty video map of the geoglyph's creation.

Press play on the geoglyph map in addition to you lot tin post away scout a video of the Ready for 2015 joggers equally they delineate out a road on Paris' streets. As the video plays the road is traced out on a Google Map, eventually tracing out the pose out '2015'.

You tin post away utilization in addition to add together your ain geoglyphs to the map past times using the Runkeeper app in addition to uploading the rails of your road to Ready for 2015. It seems that individual has already spelled out the give-and-take 'Love' on the streets of Paris. Will you lot travel the adjacent ane to add together a give-and-take to the Ready for 2015 map?

Punk Mapping

London's Burning plots the origins of unopen to of London's finest punk bands. It every mo good allows y'all to brain to a vocal past times each of the mapped bands.

This map has featured on before, but since so it has switched over to using Mapbox's Wheatpaste map tiles. The Wheatpaste map fashion was itself inspired past times the cutting & paste, collage fashion of music flyers & posters, pop alongside punk as well as novel moving ridge bands.


I've e'er liked the London's Burning map as well as this switch to the Wheatpaste map tiles seems solely appropriate.


Razibus is a Leaflet.js map of upcoming Punk, Ska as well as Hardcore concerts as well as festivals inwards France. Alternative music fans tin role the calendar inwards the side-bar to thought upcoming gigs for whatsoever week, exactly past times clicking on a appointment on the calendar

If y'all choose a mark on the map y'all tin click through to thought the consequence details as well as thought the concert's flyer or poster. Razibus every mo good contains an archive of option music gigs going dorsum to 2007. It is thus a bully resources for anyone interested inwards option music inwards French Republic or for those who dear Punk poster as well as flyer art.


I accept a theory that the makers of the Manchester Music Map gear upwards out to map the world's best stone bands. Then, afterward completing Manchester, realized that the project was done.

The 4 greatest stone bands of all time, The Buzzcocks, The Stone Roses, Joy Division as well as The Smiths all started their careers inwards the metropolis of Manchester. After mapping Manchester the creators of the Manchester Music Map patently decided that their hold upwards was done.