The Homicide Study Drops Google Maps

The Los Angeles Times has relaunched its impressive Homicide Report. In the latest update the LA Times has decided to drib Google Maps as well as deed to the LeafletJS platform.

Since 2007 The Homicide Report has been mapping as well as blogging virtually homicides inwards Los Angeles. The map allows readers to persuasion a map of homicides inwards the city. It includes the selection to filter the homicides past times neighborhood, elbow grease of death, race/ethnicity, age, sex as well as past times hateful solar daytime of the week.

The map includes a slap-up mark clustering arrangement that non exclusively shows the full lay out of homicides inside each clustered mark simply the markers are besides sized to reverberate the lay out of homicides inwards a metropolis neighborhood.

Some Google Maps Friday Fun

Many Street View heads volition already know that the Top Gear exam rails is on Google Maps Street View. The residual of the public woke upward to this fact yesterday - largely because of the unloose of this video of the Stig racing the Street View car.

You tin explore the rails yourself on Google Maps Street View here.

It has been a long fourth dimension since nosotros featured a adept map vocal inwards a Fri Fun post. We suspension that dry out while today amongst 'Polygon' yesteryear Segmentation Violation. Not alone is Polygon virtually eveybody's favorite map characteristic type, non alone does the vocal characteristic closed to bully lyrics ('I'm non a road event, a node or a polyline') simply it is too rather brilliantly performed every bit well.


Fans of the sci-fi flick Gravity powerfulness desire to banking concern check out Ogle Earth's postal service on the film. Stefen Geens has identified every footing persuasion that is featured inwards the cinema as well as matched it to the same persuasion on Google Earth.

The number is a stunning KML file that allows you lot to zoom inwards on shots from the cinema superimposed on operate yesteryear of Google Earth.

How Hint.Fm Brought The Basis To Life

Hint.fm's beautiful Wind Map has proved a root of inspiration for a discover of map developers. This real-time animated map of air current speed as well as management is a gorgeous realization of alive meteorological data.

Hint.fm's animated Wind Map has proved rattling pop as well as has inspired a discover of developers to practice similar maps that are bringing the elements to life.


The Ocean Currents Map visualizes daily-averaged sea surface currents roughly the United States. It uses the same mapping techniques every bit the Hint.fm Wind Map to animate the currents streaming roughly the country.


The National Oceanic as well as Atmospheric Association were inspired yesteryear the Wind Map to practice their ain alive currents map of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Surface Currents Map is an animated map simulating the menstruum patterns inward the Great Lakes.


Tokyo likewise has its ain real-time air current map. The Tokyo Wind Map is an animated map of real-time air current speeds as well as direction. The map likewise includes controls to sentiment previous hours' air current information on the map.

Get The Latest Snowfall Reports

With the polar vortex bringing tape freezing temperatures to much of America yous powerfulness accept idea that at to the lowest degree the ski resorts would survive happy. Unfortunately it has been in addition to so mutual frigidness that fifty-fifty approximately ski resorts accept been forced to unopen down.

Those skiiers brave approximately other to confront the mutual frigidness in addition to lucky plenty to accept access to an opened upwards ski resort should banking concern friction match out FreshyMap. FreshyMap is a map designed to laissez passer on wintertime sports enthusiasts up-to-date data well-nigh the latest snowfall conditions. The map permit users to search for the resorts amongst the freshest snow.

Select a resort on the map in addition to yous tin detect out the latest snowfall reports, access alive webcam feeds, in addition to short-term forecasts. The map fifty-fifty features a alive animated current of air layer.

Finland On Google Maps

Taksilaskuri.fi is a Google Maps based taxi fare estimator for Finland. Taxi rates are the same for the whole of Republic of Finland thus Taksilaskuri.fi is able to furnish a reasonably accurate justice for whatever taxi journeying inwards the country.

To calculate a fare users but demand to larn into a starting indicate in addition to goal for their journey, the seat out of passengers in addition to the divergence time. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 road for the journeying is in addition to thus displayed on a Google Map. The estimated charge per unit of measurement in addition to terms for the journeying is displayed. The user is also provided alongside an estimated fourth dimension for the journeying in addition to a outcry seat out to social club the taxi.


Cloud'N'Sci.fi has created a serial of Google Map heatmaps to showcase their HeatMiner service. HeatMiner is a tool that tin give notice hold out used to exercise heatmaps alongside pure vector graphics that tin give notice hold out used alongside a seat out of mapping platforms.

The showcase includes Deer Crashes inwards Finland, Traffic Noise inwards Helsinki in addition to Traffic Accidents inwards Helsinki.


Eat.fi is a comprehensive Google Maps based guide to restaurants inwards the biggest towns in addition to cities inwards Finland.

It is possible to filter the restaurants shown on the map past times type of restaurant, seat out of stars, terms of meals in addition to past times keyword (e.g. 'steak', fish' etc). Restaurants that are currently opened upwardly are shown on the map past times a greenish map marker.

If y'all mouse-over a restaurant's mark y'all tin give notice stance quick ratings of the food, sense in addition to value. The data window also reveals the type of nutrient served in addition to whether the eating theatre is currently open. If y'all click on the mark y'all volition hold out taken to amount user reviews in addition to ratings.

Eat.fi is available inwards Finnish, Swedish in addition to English.

Maps For Google Cs

Google oftentimes updates the satellite imagery of Google public as well as Google Maps. For the latest aerial imagery update Google has released a handy Google Map showing where satellite views convey been updated.

So, if y'all desire to run into if Google has novel imagery of your house, thence caput over to the Google public Imagery Update Map.


The novel await Google Maps no longer seems to bother amongst Google's oblique 'Bird's Eye' stance imagery. Therefore I imagine that Google planes are no longer circling the globe capturing this imagery. However, if similar me y'all are all the same wedded to the quondam Google Maps (or y'all desire to role the oblique stance imagery amongst the Google Maps API) thence y'all powerfulness likewise similar this map of 45° Imagery on Google Maps.


Finally, for Street View fans, if y'all are wondering where Street View is available around the world, thence cheque out the Street View coverage map on the Behind the Scenes amongst Street View page. This page likewise includes a listing of all the places Google Street View cars are currently driving around the world.

The Natural Sounds Of Planet Earth

From the insect chorus of the Kalimantan to the crooning baritone vocal of an Atlantic humpback whale, this map wants to serenade y'all amongst the sounds of nature. The Nature Soundmap is a map featuring the sounds of nature captured past times professional person nature recordists unopen to the world.

Maps bring ever been a fascinating agency to explore the globe. Satellite imagery as well as Street View imagery bring made armchair exploring fifty-fifty to a greater extent than immersive. Add inward the sounds of the monsoon inward Kalimantan as well as the soundscape of the Brazilian rain-forest as well as y'all tin order the sack nearly imagine that y'all actually bring been transported to the other side of the world.