Mapping Disastrous Australia

If y'all alive on the eastern seaboard of Commonwealth of Australia my advice is to directly pack your bags as well as deed to Geraldton on the westward coast. Project Doom is a map of natural, human made as well as carry disasters which accept occurred inward Australia. If the map reveals entirely i matter it is that the E coast of Commonwealth of Australia suffers to a greater extent than than its fair portion of disasters.

The map shows the place of disasters inward the the world since 1967. You tin sack refine the type of disasters from the bill of fare on the left of the map. If y'all guide a marking on the map y'all tin sack read details of the mapped disaster, including the release of resulting deaths.

Once y'all accept settled inward Geraldton y'all tin sack thought the Project Doom rootage code, which is available on GitHub.

Street Sentiment Your House

Creepy Polaroid is a fun picayune app which creates a quick picayune Street View snapshot of your house. Just percentage your address amongst Creepy Polaroid in addition to it provides a Street View pic of your house, amongst your address printed along the bottom.

The application uses HTML5 geolocation to create upwards one's request heed your electrical current position. You tin honor how out how to produce this amongst the Google Maps API inwards the JavaScript API documentation, Geolocation example. Once the application has your place it hence uses the Street View Image API to render a static Street View picture of your electrical current location.

The Crowd-Sourcing Robot Cartographer

Artists Manfred Kraft, Tom Kresin too Michael Volkmer accept only finished a mapped based interactive fine art exhibition at the Wiesbaden Museum of Fine Art inwards Germany.

The Radwende get involved a robot cartographer creating a daily heat-map from the previous day's cycling tracks of Wiesbaden cyclists. Anyone could contribute to the artwork past times downloading the Radwende mobile app too using it to rails their bike rides.

The exhibition has finished but yous tin hand the axe instantly sentiment a Leaflet map of all the contributed tracks to the Radwende campaign. The map includes the information from over 3,000 bike journeys roofing 16,756 km inwards distance.

The Russian Doll Of Maps

Displayce is a serial of visual map experiments created using the Google Maps API. Each of the experimental views inwards Displayce uses a divulge of Google Map instances on i page to exercise an experimental map pattern.

For example, 'foci' (pictured above) overlays a divulge of Google Maps on altitude of each other. Each map representative shows a sentiment of the same place simply each map has a consecutively lower zoom level.

Displayce includes iv unlike map experiments all creating a unlike visual consequence from stitching together unlike map instances to exercise unlike patterns. You tin terminate larn into whatever place inwards the footing into each of the experiments and, if y'all similar the resulting experimental map, y'all tin terminate catch the URL for the sentiment as well as part it amongst your friends.

Mapping The Militarization Of The Police

One of the outcomes of the province of affairs inward Ferguson, Missouri is a greater awareness of the Pentagon's Excess Property Program. Through this plan constabulary forces across the U.S. of A. of America are equipping themselves alongside armed forces shape guns, grenade launchers, vehicles, nighttime vision together with torso armor.

The New York Times has created an interactive map which allows you lot to abide by what surplus armed forces equipment county constabulary forces convey obtained through the program. Mapping the Spread of the Military's Surplus Gear uses information from the Pentagon to present where constabulary forces convey obtained surplus armed forces aircraft, armored vehicles, torso armor, grenade launchers, nighttime vision together with onset rifles.

You tin pick out a county on the map to persuasion what equipment, together with inward what quantity, the local constabulary forcefulness has obtained from the Excess Property Program. You tin besides pick out a category of armed forces equipment to come across which counties across the U.S. of A. of America convey been inward receipt of that type of surplus armed forces gear.

The map itself was created alongside D3.js. If you lot are interested inward creating a like map together with then Suffen.us has an slowly to follow tutorial, Making a Simple Interactive Map Prototype alongside D3…For Total Beginners Who are Totally Impatient, explaining how to exercise a US counties map alongside D3.js, using a mutual separated values file to charge the data.

Mapping The Life Of George Washington

George Washington spent a lot of fourth dimension inwards Washington DC. I jurist he liked the name.¹

Washington's World is a biographical map of George Washington's life created past times the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association (Mount Vernon beingness Washington's plantation home). The map allows you lot to explore the places which Washington visited inwards his life, from his nascency inwards Westmoreland County, Virginia to his decease at Mount Vernon.

The map includes the selection to display diverse journeys undertaken past times Washington during his life, including, his presidential tours too his trip to Barbados. The map too includes a timeline, which allows you lot to explore the plotted locations past times date. If you lot select a location on the map you lot tin sentiment details nearly the chosen location inwards the map sidebar.

^1. Yes, I know.

Mapping Fires Inwards The Amazon

InfoAmazonia has created an interesting Torque powered animated map of 2 years worth of fires inwards the Amazon. Fires inwards the Amazon uses information obtained from NASA satellite imagery.

InfoAmazonia is a network of organizations in addition to journalists dedicated to providing tidings in addition to information almost the Amazon from the nine countries of the forest. All the information used on the site is open-sourced in addition to provides a non bad resources for anyone interested inwards the Amazon in addition to deforestation.

Global warming in addition to the growth inwards extreme, dry out conditions conditions combined alongside the effects of deforestation is creating an surroundings inwards the Amazon which is proving to a greater extent than conducive to devastating woods fires. The Fires inwards the Amazon map is a powerful visualization of the catastrophic consequence of fires inwards the Amazon over the end 2 years.

The juxtaposition of xanthous in addition to blood-red animated sack markers alongside the night background map tiles is a rattling effective representation of the burning of the Amazon. However the map does autumn into the trap of many Torque powered map visualizations yesteryear failing to render whatever context for the animated data.

The best examples of Torque powered animated maps that I accept seen lately accept used Torque alongside Odyssey.js to at to the lowest degree selection out some of the interesting stories inwards the data. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 skilful instance of this is the Global Terrorism, 2013 map, an animated visualization of terrorist attacks around the the world from Jan of 2013 through to the destination of that year.

As the Global Terrorism map animation plays terrorist events are added to the map inwards chronological social club on the engagement they occurred. During the animation notable events, such equally the Boston Marathon Bombings, the siege on the BP gas complex inwards Algeria, the killing of a British soldier inwards London in addition to the killing of 72 innocent shoppers at the Westgate Mall inwards Nairobi are highlighted on the map in addition to reported on inwards the map sidebar.

You tin sentiment to a greater extent than of InfoAmazonia's maps on their map gallery. The galley includes maps almost the effects of deforestation, protected areas in addition to indigenous lands in addition to forced labor inwards Amazonia.