Maps Of The Week

The Battle of Antietam was the showtime major battle inward the American Civil War to accept house on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle inward American history, resulting inward 22,717 dead, wounded, as well as missing on both sides combined.

The Civil War Trust's Battle of Antietam Animated Map is a lovingly produced video of the bloodiest solar daytime inward American history. The video includes re-enactment footage with a set out of animated maps that recount the attacks as well as counterattacks yesteryear both sides inward this bloody battle.


The site too includes a set out of interactive 360 aeroplane panoramic tours of or as well as thus of the of import battlefield locations. After watching the video map of the battle it is fascinating to hold out able to sentiment the 360 tours as well as piece of work a showtime mortal sentiment of the battlefield on the ground.


Trafficways is a wonderful collection of beautiful map layers on 1 OpenStreetMap map. The maps include visualizations of air flights, Flickr photos, the U.S. of A. census data, GPS lines & speed as well as a whole lot more.

The map too includes a set out of options that permit you lot to refine the appearance of the dissimilar map layers. The visualization options include brightness as well as gamma controls as well as options to suit the set out of dots used inward presenting the mapped data.


One of the around shared maps on social media this calendar week was Stephanie May's Rental Housing Affordability inward San Francisco. The map shows how many full-time minimum wage jobs you lot postulate to afford a 2 sleeping accommodation apartment inward each of San Francisco's neighborhoods.

Let's merely nation that if you lot desire a apartment inward Mission Bay you lot amend start applying for a few to a greater extent than jobs.

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.

The Maps Of The Week

This week's Maps of the Week features no Google Maps based applications. This may reverberate a growing shift inward the residual of ability inward mapping API's away from the Google Maps API in addition to towards other providers - simply I'll operate out that fence for to a greater extent than or less other time.

For immediately lets concentrate on to a greater extent than or less of the best maps of the past times week.


This calendar week I was real impressed alongside ii maps that await at the thorny number of immigration in addition to refugees. Whatever your sentiment on immigration the stories of migrants deserve to locomote told in addition to I haven't seen the migrant's storey ameliorate told than inward the Global Mail's novel mapped interactive written report on Hussain's Journey.

Filmmaker Matt Abbott gave Muhammad Hussain, a Hazara Pakistani most to ready out on a journeying to assay asylum inward Australia, a video photographic television camera in addition to asked him to cinema his experiences. The Global Mail's mapped written report starts off alongside Matt Abbot's ain recordings of Muhammad Hussain's household unit of measurement in addition to life inward Karachi.

When Muhammad ready off on his unsafe journeying to Commonwealth of Australia he took over the filming himself. The mapped written report of this journeying allows yous to sentiment his experiences inward condom houses, inward smugglers’ homes in addition to the in conclusion stretch across the body of body of water inward a rickety boat. 

 
Since the kickoff of the Syrian civil country of war at to the lowest degree ii 1 yard m refugees pick out fled the province in addition to to a greater extent than than 5 1 yard m pick out been displaced internally. Most of the refugees pick out fled to neighboring countries. This humanitarian crisis has placed a huge burden on Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Republic of Iraq in addition to Iraqi Kurdistan.

Al Jazeera has created a mapped visualization to assistance bring the scale of rehousing 7 1 yard m people. Where would 7 1 yard m displaced Syrians fit? allows yous to overlay the surface area needed to rehouse 7 1 yard m people on whatsoever location inward the United States.

The surface area of soil needed at each US location is based on the electrical flow population density equally revealed past times the 2010 census. Viewing the refugee overlay on tiptop of your ain home-town actually helps to bring the humanitarian crisis caused past times the Syrian civil war.


It is immediately over a calendar month since Russian Federation arrested 28 Greenpeace activists in addition to ii journalists. The thirty are immediately facing a accuse of hooliganism, a accuse that could lawsuit inward upward to 7 years inward jail.

Greenpeace has released a time-line in addition to map of the events leading upward to the illegal boarding of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise past times the Russian coast guard in addition to the arrest of all on board. Into the Arctic maps the journeying of the Arctic Sunrise from July 1st when it ready canvass on its mission to expose the unsafe crude oil drilling inward the Arctic.

The map shows the runway of the Arctic Sunrise in addition to the time-line explains the ship's mission in addition to also tells the stories of to a greater extent than or less of the activists immediately facing trial inward Russia.

You tin lav present your back upward for the Arctic thirty past times sending a missive of the alphabet or email to your Russian embassy.