Explore The Golden Gate National Park

The Golden Gate National Park Conservancy website has relaunched amongst to a greater extent than or less cracking looking novel Google Maps of the common together with the park's trails.

The 'Big Map' includes information from a break of sources, including the Parks Conservancy, the Presidio Trust, San Francisco State University together with the California Protected Areas Database. The map shows points on involvement throughout the park, such equally restrooms, cafes, overlook viewpoints together with visitor centers. The icons for the overlooks fifty-fifty betoken inward the direction of the sentiment available.

As good equally the 'Big Map' the Golden Gates National Park Conservancy website features smaller maps throughout together with a novel Trails page. The trails page allows hikers to search for trails past times score of difficulty together with sentiment detailed maps of the trails, which include synchronized superlative charts.

Slide The Map To Compare

I honey the slide command inward these maps inward this Urban Institute interactive. Washington DC - Our Changing City is a study on the population changes happening inward Washington DC.

The interactive study includes a serial of maps comparison population as well as demographic changes inward the American working capital alphabetic lineament betwixt 2000 as well as 2010. Each map includes a slide command that allows the user to swipe across the map to compare the differences inward point maps from the twelvemonth 2000 as well as 2010.

I've seen this type of slide command used earlier to compare earlier as well as afterwards photographs. For example, I used a like command to compare aerial imagery from earlier as well as afterwards the 2011 tornado inward Tuscaloosa. However this is the starting fourth dimension time I've seen a slide command used to compare 2 dissimilar map layers.

Public Balance Rooms On Your Route

The Australian Government's Department of Social Services equally purpose of the National Continence Program has released the National Public Toilet Map. The map provides data on over 16,000 world toilets amongst data close accessibility, opening hours as well as facilities, such equally showers & infant change.

The National Toilet Map uses the Google Maps API to allow Australians to search for nearby world toilets yesteryear place as well as yesteryear the facilities offered. The National Public Toilet Map likewise allows users to excogitation a driving trip amongst available world toilets displayed along the route.

Where Students Tin Report Abroad

The Erasmus Programme is a academy educatee central programme that operates inwards the European Union. Students inwards the programme are able to attend too written report for a business office of their score at a academy inwards closed to other European country.

The Erasmus Network has mapped the connections of European universities to each other inside the Erasmus Programme. The map provides a corking visualization of the network too allows students to easily stance the partner universities of their abode institutions. If students guide their academy on the map they tin directly run across the university's partner institutions across the EU.

The Google Zeitgeist Globe

This year's Google Trends' annual review of what the the world is searching for includes a Google Zeitgeist Globe. The globe allows yous to conduct from 150 cities some the the world together with stance the pinnacle Google Trends at that place for whatever solar daytime inwards 2013.

To stance the Google Trends for a metropolis exactly conduct the metropolis on the 3d globe. The Top Trends for each solar daytime inwards 2013 volition automatically start to seem overlaid on the globe. You tin laissez passer notice besides role the timeline beneath the globe to stance the pinnacle searches for whatever solar daytime of whatever month.

Mapping Air Pollution Or As Well As Then The World

Air Pollution inwards New York is a Google Map that provides a visualization of air character inwards the Big Apple. The map is from the same creators every bit the Air Pollution inwards Asia map (see below).

Markers on the map are color-coded to display the air pollution grade based on the EPA graduation. Green indicates that the electrical current air character poses piddling or no risk. You tin strength out click on the private markers to read the amount readings from the selected air pollution monitor.


Houstonians every bit good bring a means of tracking outdoor air quality, thank you lot to a real-time map created yesteryear the University of Houston together with Air Alliance Houston. The Houston Clean Air Network uses a Google Map to demo ozone levels inwards the City of Houston.

The map uses a color coded overlay to display the ozone levels on the map. Purple colors stand upwards for 'hazardous' levels, piece dark-green indicates 'good' levels. The electrical current readings from unlike locations around the metropolis are every bit good displayed on the map via numbered map markers.

The map every bit good includes the selection to await at together with animate the ozone levels for whatsoever previous day.


The London Air Quality Network provides information most air character inwards together with around London.

The site includes a Google Map that allows Londoners to sentiment air character from monitoring stations positioned around the capital. The stations collect information on London's air character twice a twenty-four hours together with the map is updated hourly.

As good every bit the traditional Google Maps visualizations of air pollution London Air has a really cool 3d Map of Air Pollution inwards London. This 3d map seems to bring been around for a piece because it visualizes air character inwards London inwards 2003, alongside predictions for the years 2004-10.


Air Pollution inwards Asia is a Google Map of real-time air character readings.

The map provides a visual direct to air character across China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia together with a seat out of other Asian cities. When looking at the map the unsafe pollution inwards Red People's Republic of China is forthwith evident. There every bit good seems to live on highly unsafe air pollution inwards Delhi.

Users tin strength out click on whatsoever of the map markers to sentiment the latest air pollution reading from the selected air monitor together with click through to larn detailed readings together with readings from nearby monitors.

The Maps Of The Week

We've featured a lot of Carto DB Torque powered maps inwards the final month. This animated map of the geography of 400,000 hours of TV intelligence is with the almost interesting.

The Internet Archive geo-coded 400,000 hours of the United States of America tv set intelligence in addition to mapped the locations mentioned inwards each report. The Animated Geography of TV News map animates through the locations mentioned inwards the intelligence providing a swell visualization of the countries in addition to areas that have the almost attending in addition to the areas which are neglected past times American intelligence (sorry Africa).


I dear the slide command inwards the maps featured inwards this Urban Institute interactive. Washington DC - Our Changing City is a written report on the population changes happening inwards Washington DC.

The interactive written report includes a serial of maps comparison population in addition to demographic changes inwards the American uppercase betwixt 2000 in addition to 2010. Each map includes a slide command that allows the user to swipe across the map to compare the differences inwards point maps from the twelvemonth 2000 in addition to 2010.

I've seen this type of slide command used earlier to compare earlier in addition to afterward photographs. For example, I used a like command to compare aerial imagery from earlier in addition to afterward the 2011 tornado inwards Tuscaloosa. However this is the showtime fourth dimension I've seen a slide command used to compare 2 unlike map layers.


Johannes Gutenberg's excogitation of mechanical movable type printing inwards the 15th century was belike the almost of import regain inwards the modern age. Gutenberg's excogitation arguably kick-started the Renaissance in addition to undoubtedly led to the spread of learning with the full general population inwards Europe.

The Atlas of Early Printing is a Google Map charting the spread of printing, from Gutenberg's showtime movable type printer inwards 1452 inwards Mainz to the residual of Europe past times the cease of the 15th century. The map includes a timeline that allows you lot to visualize the rising of printing presses throughout Europe over the course of study of the 15th century.


If you lot are bored at schoolhouse don't only sit down at that spot mindlessly staring into space, decease your telephone out in addition to percentage your boredom with the residual of the world.

The Real Time #Bored inwards School Map is a real-time map showing Tweets past times schoolkids who are bored inwards class. Since the map went alive on the 16th Dec at that spot has been over 43,000 bored Tweets. That is a lot of bored students.

As good every bit the map of alive Tweets the app keeps a running full of the seat out of 'bored' messages in addition to a alive business nautical chart of the seat out of Tweets made over the final hour.