Hotel Heatmap Search

I noticed late that Hipmunk are the latest good known website to convey dropped Google Maps inwards favor of MapBox. I ever liked the heatmap alternative on Hipmunk hotel searches as well as I'm happy to run across this characteristic is nevertheless available on their novel await maps.

You tin search for hotels on Hipmunk past times place as well as appointment you lot as well as sentiment the suggested results on a map. The map non solely contains all the suggested hotels precisely likewise allows you lot to sentiment a publish of heatmaps of the city. These heatmaps highlight areas expert for tourism, restaurants, shops as well as nightlife. This provides you lot amongst a dandy agency to search for a hotel inwards an surface area that suits the role of your trip.

Hipmunk likewise furnish the alternative to refine the hotel results displayed on the map past times unlike categories. These categories (buttons located higher upward the map) allows you lot to sentiment hotels that Hipmunk recommend every mo 'kid friendly', 'luxury', 'business' or 'romantic'.

Point & Click Street View

The Point & Click Street View Browser is an interesting experiment inwards creating a novel agency to navigate Google Maps Street View. Inspired past times the classic Myst reckoner games Point & Click Street View requires the user to click on the left-hand side of the Street View to await to the left, to click on the right-hand side of the Street View to await correct as well as to click at the superlative of the Street View to deed frontward to the side past times side Street View image.

I don't mean value this method of navigating Street View is going to supervene upon the established Google Maps navigation organisation anytime soon. However I could come across this method of navigation working really good inwards a Street View game. There are too only about interesting things going on nether the hood of the Point & Click Street View browser which powerfulness involvement anyone interested inwards using Street View alongside the Google Maps API.

Point & Click plant past times using the PanoID of private Street Views. The code includes a dandy method for automatically grabbing the PanoID of the side past times side Street View as well as the PanoID's which present the views to the left as well as correct of the electrical flow Street View. The code too includes a dandy method for creating a unique URL for each thought past times appending the PanoID of the electrical flow thought to the URL.

Hat-tip: Google Street View World

It's Snowing On Street View

Last calendar week for Apr Fool''s Day I created a niggling Street View app that overlaid  animated clouds on Street View. Today I idea I'd come across if I could exercise a niggling Street View application that featured animated falling snow.

Luckily for me Seb Lee-Delisle has created a nifty HTML5 Canvas Snow inward 3d library. This library creates a canvass chemical ingredient amongst falling snow. I item similar how the snowfall inward this library is responsive to mouse movements.

It was a elementary undertaking for me to but exercise a Street View event in addition to overlay the snowfall canvass on elevation of the Street View. Here's the resultant - Street View Snow. If you lot convey the hacking chops you lot could educate this past times using the Street View Depth library to exercise an application where the snowfall genuinely accumulates on the border of buildings in addition to objects inward the Street View.

Mapping Ikea's Global Conquest

Over the final twelvemonth I've been experimenting quite a chip alongside using the scroll bar to command Street View (e.g. Scroll Around the World) as well as to practice narratives alongside maps (e.g. the Mary Celeste).

This map of Ikea Store Openings has an ingenious scroll bar command which I like. Essentially Ikea Store Openings is an animated time-line as well as mapped visualization of the increment of Ikea over the years. As you lot scroll downwards the page the time-line moves as well as the corresponding shop openings look on the map.

The map includes a clever auto-scrolling function. Click the play push as well as you lot tin laissez passer on notice laissez passer on your mouse finger a balance equally the time-line automatically scrolls as well as the stores magically look on the map.

Geojson Your Google Maps

Google of late added Build a Map Infographic alongside Google Maps & JavaScript. The tutorial is a overnice introduction into how to exercise a Google Maps visualization of the U.S. Census data.

You tin banking concern gibe out the finished map here. The map allows y'all to persuasion choropleth layers of demographic information for the U.S. states. The map uses GeoJSON to charge the the U.S. soil polygons. The tutorial itself explains how y'all tin charge GeoJSON files from Google Maps Engine using the Google Maps API. There is together with a useful explanation of how y'all tin charge GeoJSON information from the the U.S. Census API alongside the Maps API.

Mapping Melbourne's Street Art

The City of Melbourne has instigated an interesting 'Do Art Not Tags' drive aimed at educating the city's youth nigh the differences betwixt street fine art in addition to graffiti.

As business office of the drive the urban kernel has created an ArcGIS Story Map highlighting around of the best of Melbourne's street art. The content for the Do Art Not Tags map has been collected using ArcGIS's Collector App which allows for photos of the street fine art to hold upwardly captured past times smartphone, uploaded to Flickr in addition to right away added to the map.

The map itself is responsive, which allows high schoolhouse students to role the map on their phones or tablet devices to easily detect in addition to view the street fine art for themselves.

Find A Undertaking Alongside Google Maps

JobKaster has relaunched amongst a beautifully designed novel Google Maps interface. JobKaster is a undertaking search app that allows you lot to search for available jobs past times place or past times type of job.

JobKaster's novel pattern is real bully together with includes only about nicely designed intuitive search features. If you lot pick out a mark on the map the undertaking listings inward the map sidebar automatically scrolls together with highlights the selected job. When you lot pan the map the jobs displayed inward the map sidebar too update to listing the jobs inward the electrical flow map view.

The undertaking listings inward the map sidebar render details well-nigh the selected undertaking together with too provides data well-nigh how far the undertaking is from your location.