Finished Pokémon? Thence Endeavor Mobbles

If y'all produce got flora all 150 Pokémon inwards the Google Maps Pokémon Challenge as well as thence y'all are laid to produce got on the Mobbles challenge.

Mobbles is a fun game for Android as well as iOS devices. The game involves searching Google Maps for hidden creatures. When y'all respect the creatures y'all tin tap on them as well as capture them. If that sounds a footling similar the Google Maps Pokémon Challenge don't worry equally Mobbles includes quite a lot to a greater extent than game-play than Google's fun Pokémon Apr Fools jape.

After y'all capture your Mobbles y'all besides postulate to tending of the footling critters, past times feeding, cleaning as well as playing alongside them. You tin besides merchandise your Mobbles alongside other players. By trading Mobbles y'all tin produce upwards your ain unique collection of creatures. Just shout back that y'all postulate to tending for each as well as everyone of them.

Deforestation Leads To Slavery

Maps tin hold upward real powerful tools inwards information visualization. Especially when y'all desire to exhibit a correlation betwixt 2 unlike data-sets. This is truthful of this map of Forced Labor inwards Amazonia.

The visualization overlays information relating to the place of rescued slaves and deforestation inwards the Amazon on a map of Brazil. The correlation betwixt locations where those inwards forced project convey been rescued together with areas suffering from deforestation appears to hold upward real clear on the map.

The map real powerfully reinforces the human relationship betwixt the destruction of the pelting wood inwards Brazil together with social degradation from forced labor.

The Matrix On Street View

This ane sounds similar an Apr Fools joke merely I hope you lot it isn't.

Photographer Alexis Jemus has shot a discover of indoor Street Views of Montreal businesses every bit purpose of the Google Business Photos program. When he shot the Street View for the Montreal Ikea shop he decided non to hire models for the shoot merely instead cloned himself l times.

Don't believe me? Then banking concern agree out this incredible scene inwards Street View, inwards which l Alexis Jemuses look inwards ane incredible panoramic image.

Via: Google Street View World

Uk Air Pollution On Google Maps

The UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland is this calendar week experiencing tape levels of air pollution. This is partly beingness caused yesteryear sand from the Sahara only besides yesteryear the UK's appalling tape on traffic pollution.

The tape levels of air pollution has larn a big tidings story inwards the UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland media today. Which way that Defra (the Department for Environment too Rural Affairs) couldn't convey picked a to a greater extent than opportune fourth dimension for the launch of their novel 5 hateful solar daytime air pollution forecast map.

The Defra Air Pollution Forecast is a static oestrus map that displays air pollution forecasts for the side yesteryear side 5 days. However if you lot movement into an address or postcode into the map you lot tin persuasion a local Google Map for whatever expanse of the UK, which includes to a greater extent than detailed local forecasts. Defra’s air lineament forecasts are produced yesteryear the UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland Met Office.

Via: Mapperz

Mapping European Migrant Deaths

The Migrants Files has mapped over 23,000 migrants who convey died on their means to Europe since the twelvemonth 2000. Partially funded past times the European non-profit organization, Journalismfund.eu, the Migrant Files has been compiling information on the deaths of Europe’s would-be migrants from a break of dissimilar sources.

The map shows the locations of where migrants convey died either inwards their attempts to motion into Europe or while seeking refuge inwards Europe. The map highlights the dangers for African migrants off the coasts of Kingdom of Morocco too Tunisia too likewise a large break of deaths of migrants off the coast of Turkey.

Development Goals Discussed On Twitter

Global Pulse has released an impressive interactive presentation exploring how the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals are beingness discussed on social media.

In the twelvemonth 2000 the UN agreed to laid upwards 8 Millennium Development Goals. The 8 MDGs were meant to supply a framework from which to halve poverty but about the the world past times 2015. As that deadline approaches Global Pulse and the Millennium Campaign has released Unglobal Pulse, to explore how unlike countries convey been discussing topics related to these goals on Twitter.

This interactive visualization shows the 20 countries which convey proportionately tweeted the most almost each topic. The visualization includes a slap-up interactive globe. Select whatsoever of the topics inwards the globe sidebar too the globe spins to demo the 20 countries that convey tweeted the most almost the topic.


Unglobal Pulse too features a Google Map equally business office of the interactive visualization. The map provides a oestrus map stance of each of the MDG topics. If you lot lead a theme inwards the sidebar a oestrus map displays the intensity of the unwrap of Tweets made but about the theme inwards each province of the world. You tin too click on private countries to stance the unwrap of Tweets made inwards the province for each of the topics.

Zeit Online Drops Google Maps

Over the years High German paper Zeit has published some corking information visualizations using the Google Maps API. However  it has instantly followed the tendency fix past times many other digital publishers inwards moving away from Google Maps as well as towards using OpenStreetMap.

Zeit Online as well as Google Maps


IN 2011 Zeit Online used Google Maps to divulge the place information captured past times mobile phones. The map animated the movements of High German Green political party politician, Malte Spit on a Google Map, for a half dozen calendar month period. Verräterisches Handy was non entirely a corking map it also proved to live on i of the most effective articles inwards raising the awareness of mobile users to the place information captured past times their phones as well as past times the band companies.


In 2011, later the Japanese seismic sea wave as well as the resulting meltdown at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Zeit Online published a Google Map visualizing how many Americans alive nigh nuclear ability plants.

The American Nuclear Power Plants Map includes a distance slider tool that allows yous to visualize how many people alive within different distances of a nuclear ability plant. For example, the voluntary evacuation zone around the Fukushima ability found is eighteen miles. Using the Zeit-Online map nosotros uncovering that a full of 16,040,474 Americans alive inside eighteen miles of a nuclear plant.

In 2012 Zeit Online created a like map for its High German readers. The German Nuclear Power Plants Map shows how many people alive unopen to High German nuclear ability plants. This map also includes a distance slider tool that lets yous visualize how many Germans alive inside unlike distances of a nuclear ability plant.

Zeit Online as well as OpenStreetMap

Yesterday the MapBox Blog published a postal service on Zeit Online's switch to custom made OpenStreetMaps. The postal service is an interesting seek of the blueprint decisions Zeit Online has taken inwards their novel hold off interactive maps. These blueprint choices include the purpose of Zeit Online fonts for map labels as well as the lean purpose of map labels to brand infinite for information on information visualizations.


The MapBox postal service also includes links to a issue of examples of Zeit-Online's purpose of interactive maps. These include an interesting map showing how doctor’s offices are concentrated inwards affluent neighborhoods of High German cities, a map displaying the tracks of all hurricanes betwixt 2008 as well as 2013 as well as a map showing the UK's nuclear ability found structure plans.

The MapBox weblog postal service of class does non explicate the reasons behind Zeit Online's determination to drib the purpose of the Google Maps API for MapBox as well as OpenStreetMap. We tin hand the axe in all likelihood infer that the greater liberty inwards blueprint command offered past times OpenStreetMap contributed inwards some component to the newspaper's decision.

I've written before nearly how I yell back that Google has been really wearisome over the final ii years inwards developing the Google Maps API. I strongly believe that Google's recent concentration on Google Maps Engine as well as fail of the Google Maps API is causing map developers to switch to other mapping platforms.

Of class Google may non assist nearly this. Google Maps Engine generates income for Google as well as also agency that they cause got access to all the place information uploaded past times Google Maps Engine users.