Explore The Poetic Beauty Of Planet Earth

The Poetry Cafe has ane mission as well as that is to portion the beautiful poetic places that tin last found on this niggling blueish planet nosotros telephone telephone Earth.

Julius Meinl Coffee was established inward Vienna inward 1862 to sell high lineament coffees as well as overstep away the ambassador of Viennese java menage civilization inward the world. The society sees itself equally business office of the long tradition of European java houses, which bring ever been to a greater extent than than but places to drinkable coffee. They bring likewise been of import centers of art, civilization as well as debate.

The Julius Meinl Coffee company's novel website, 'The Poety Cafe', has been designed to lead y'all into the populace of creative inspiration; to opened upwardly your eyes to the poesy inward the everyday as well as to help y'all portion this poesy alongside the populace through the Poetry Cafe. An of import business office of this work is the novel Poetry Map.

The Poetry Cafe's Google Map allows y'all to postal service photos of the beautiful locations to a greater extent than or less the populace that bring inspired your life as well as help y'all to notice the places that bring inspired others. You tin browse the beautiful photos submitted to the Poetry Map past times location as well as y'all tin filter the results shown on the map past times category (Nature, Culture, Urban, Coffee, Culinary as well as Pleasure).

How To Set Your Cite On The Map

The Name Navigator is an awesome mapped portal which allows y'all to discovery where together with when your cite has been well-nigh popular.

Enter your outset cite into the Name Navigator together with y'all tin persuasion an animated oestrus map, which shows the popularity of your cite inwards each acre over the terminal 100 years. You tin fifty-fifty pick out whatever yr together with click on the map to notice out how pop your cite was inwards that yr inwards the selected state.

Alongside the map a frequency graph is displayed showing the rising together with autumn of your name's popularity over time. You don't fifty-fifty need to restrain yourself to i name. You tin besides add together your friends' names together with persuasion a following comparing of your names' popularity over the terminal 100 years.


After y'all accept mapped the popularity of your outset cite y'all volition no doubtfulness desire to reckon how pop your solid unit of measurement cite is roughly the world. To utilization this y'all need to catch Public Profiler's World Family Names.

If y'all come across your surname into World Family Names y'all are presented amongst a oestrus map of the footing showing where in that location are high concentrations of people amongst your solid unit of measurement name. Beneath the map the pinnacle countries, regions together with cities where your cite conduct house are displayed inwards listing form.


Once y'all accept discovered where your outset cite together with surname are pop y'all volition together with then desire to notice out all the locations roughly the footing which accept been named later you. Where the Streets Have Your Name is a dandy application that y'all tin role to utilization a Google Map showing all the places roughly the footing which portion your name. That's correct they were named later you!

Just come across your cite into the search expanse together with y'all volition live on shown a Google Map amongst all the streets, towns together with other locations roughly the footing that portion your name.

The Czech Democracy Inwards 3D

Czech online mapping portal Mapy has an interesting novel 3d option. The beta version of Mapy 3d allows you lot to explore some of the Czech Republic's gorgeous historic centers inwards glorious 3d.

The 3d map includes controls to arrange the height together with direction of your view. It fifty-fifty includes a bang-up 'helicopter' choice that rotates your sentiment or together with thence the map center. The locations where the beta 3d sentiment is available is a footling patchy at the moment. If you lot zoom out on the accompanying map you lot tin hand notice run into where 3d sentiment is available (shaded cherry on the map).

Paragliding Amongst Google Maps

Thermal KK7 is a map which displays thermal heat-maps across the globe. The map shows the probability of finding a usable ascending air electrical flow for a paraglider, at dissimilar times of the yr as well as day, amongst the help of thermal trigger points.

The map allows you lot to visualize the thermal heat-maps over Google satellite as well as terrain views or on exceed of a SRTM terrain layer. It is also possible to sentiment the heat-map on exceed of Google's route map layer as well as on exceed of an OpenStreetMap.


Paragliding Map is a Google Maps based app to help you lot invention paragliding flights.

ParaglidingMap.com takes electrical flow conditions observations, as well as makes a rules-based determination on whether each flying site closed to the public is flyable or not. The determination is based on a position out of factors, including electrical flow air current direction, electrical flow air current speed as well as gust forcefulness as well as electrical flow conditions observations (clouds, fog, rain, thunderstorm, föhn, etc).


XC Planner is some other Google Maps based planning tool for paragliders. Using the tool you lot tin flame select the place of your paragliding flight. You tin flame as well as hence drag as well as driblet the turning points as well as define a position out of options as well as fifty-fifty sentiment yesteryear thermal patterns on the map.


If you lot desire to cause got a sense of savour of paragliding but are scared to endeavour the existent affair as well as hence this awesome paragliding flying simulator from ParaglidingEarth is what you lot need.

Before starting your flying you lot tin flame lead the color of your glider, your take-off heading, the air current speed as well as direction, the thermal density, thermal pinnacle as well as fifty-fifty the thermal size. When you lot are create simply press 'Let's Fly!' You tin flame as well as hence glide to your heart's please amongst a trivial help from the Google public browser plug-in.

The site also includes the choice to select from paragliding sites across the world. Which allows you lot to preview a paragliding place from the comfort of your domicile yesteryear using the ParaglidingEarth paragliding flying simulator.

Mapping Brazil's Monkey Robot Army

Guardian's recent serial of Classic Album Covers inwards Street View proved really popular. The Guardian was inspired to practise these images by, Halley Docherty's serial of 18th as well as 19th-century paintings paintings superimposed on Street View screenshots.


Meanwhile Javier Arce has been having approximately fun imagining how a comic mass hero powerfulness run CartoDB to map the lairs of the world's supervillains. The 1-bit cartoon map of Supervillain's Lairs helpfully reveals the location of Yu Heixian's monkey robot army.


After centuries of European edge disputes as well as wars The Economist has revealed a cunning innovation to physically redraw the map of Europe inwards enterprise to brand the continent a happier as well as to a greater extent than stable place.

The innovation is probable to seek controversial only the prospect of warmer conditions for the Great Britain afterward it is moved southwards agency The Economist has my amount support.

The Indian Election Twitter Oestrus Map

The whole of Republic of Republic of India waits with bated breath for the finally results of the country's full general election. Most of the larn out polls are predicting that the primary opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is probable to move the biggest winner. However larn out polls inward Republic of Republic of India convey oftentimes proved to move really inaccurate.

I prefer thus to role the wildly inaccurate method of counting the publish of Twitter mentions of the leaders of the 3 primary parties (the INC, BJP & AAP) to estimate the popularity of each candidate. Luckily mortal has created an animated heat-map showing the place of Tweets made only about the footing for each of the primary political party leaders betwixt the kickoff of this twelvemonth together with 13th May.

I'm a large fan of CartoDB's Torque library, which is capable of creating really powerful animated visualizations of large information sets. The India's Election: 2014 together with so far on Twitter map is 1 of the to a greater extent than impressive examples of a CartoDB Torque created map that I've seen. The role of unlike colors for each of the 3 political party leaders results inward a really impressive looking map, redolent of a Jackson Pollock painting.

Unfortunately with all this visual dissonance it is hard to pick out whatsoever clear leader. So it is dorsum to the larn out polls for me.

A Sleeping Empire Awakes

The Northward Migration of the Majority is an interesting serial of animated oestrus maps showing the movements of the inhabitants as well as workers inwards iii Chinese cities. The iii maps visualize the patterns of population crusade inwards Beijing, Shanghai as well as Guangzhou over a 24 hr period.

The Beijing animation includes an inset map that displays a publish of highlights of pregnant moments during the day. The inset shows a zoomed inwards map of locations that meet increased numbers of people at specific moments during the day. These include carry hubs during rush hr as well as concern centers during working hours.

Each of the animated oestrus map layers are overlaid on peak of a Baidu map of the city. There is no information on where the population information comes from, withal the exclusively link on the page is to the mobile version of Baidu maps then I suspect the information may come upward from mobile outcry upward tracking.