Live Air Current & Electrical Current Maps

Hint.fm's beautiful Wind Map has proved a beginning of inspiration to a release of map developers. This real-time animated map of current of air speed in addition to management actually is a gorgeous realization of alive meteorological data.


The National Oceanic in addition to Atmospheric Association were inspired past times the Wind Map to employ their ain alive currents map of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Surface Currents Map is an animated map simulating the menstruation patterns inwards the Great Lakes.


Now Tokyo has its ain real-time current of air map. The Tokyo Wind Map is an animated map of real-time current of air speeds in addition to direction. The map besides includes controls to persuasion previous hours' current of air information on the map.

Ada Lovelace & The Neo-Geographers

"Geography amuses me really much." 

- from the childhood magazine of Ada Lovelace

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, which provides us alongside the perfect chance to recognize in addition to celebrate the contributions of women to the public of online interactive cartography.

From the really early on pioneering function of Pamela Fox alongside the Google Maps API and Di-Ann Eisnor (Platial in addition to Waze) women stimulate got played an essential role inwards the evolution of what some telephone phone neo-geography.


In the concluding calendar month Google has featured a issue of vivid maps developed past times women. Last calendar week the official Geo Developers Blog picked upwards on 1 of these maps when it featured Abby Putinski's map of her ain illustrations of San Francisco every bit its Map of the Week.

One of my favorite maps of simply concluding calendar week was Katy Decorah's Static Map Maker, a neat sorcerer for creating static maps using the the Google Static Maps API. Recently Google has likewise featured Emily Bennet's Portsmouth History Picture Map in addition to her splendid series of tutorials on how to create a map alongside the Google Maps API.

Barbara J. Ryan is Secretariat Director of the intergovernmental Group on globe Observations (GEO). GEO's Global globe Observation System of Systems is linking together existing in addition to planned observing systems around the public inwards social club to furnish a unmarried access betoken for users seeking data, imagery in addition to analytical software packages relevant to all parts of the globe. Karla Baker is leading the Bartholowmew Archive's 10 twelvemonth projection to digitise in addition to convey on-line the printed maps of map engravers, printers in addition to publishers, John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.

Ada Lovelace Day is a rare chance to celebrate the achievements of women inwards science, technology, applied scientific discipline in addition to maths. If y'all desire to stimulate got utilization inwards the celebrations y'all tin uncovering events taking house close y'all today on Finding Ada's listing of Worldwide Events. There is fifty-fifty a Google Map of websites in addition to blogs that stimulate got posted articles for Ada Lovelace Day.

The Street Sentiment Gondola Arrives Inwards Venice

St Marks Square

Street View has arrived inward Venice! Over the summertime Google took to the canals in addition to walkways of Venice using gondolas in addition to the Street View Trekker backpacks. The resultant is that you lot tin flame at i time tour i of the nigh beautiful cities on populace on Google Maps.


The Bridge of Sighs

Live Real-Time Map Of Amtrak Trains

Amtrak has today launched a real-time map of its to a greater extent than than 300 daily trains. The Amtrak Track a Train map shows the alive put of all the network's trains.

Passengers tin search for private trains past times develop discover or develop refer or search for private station. If you lot direct a train's marking on the map you lot tin stance details well-nigh its electrical flow speed, side past times side station as well as estimated fourth dimension or arrival.

Users tin likewise click on private stations to stance station details as well as the station address.

Banksy Inward Novel York Maps

The view of the pop street creative someone Bansky seems to accept caused a chip of a stir inwards New York this week. If y'all haven't managed to location whatever of Banky's "Better Out Than In" industrial plant withal in addition to then y'all mightiness involve a map.

Luckily both The Village Voice in addition to The Telegraph accept created Google Maps showing the locations of Banksy's novel masterpieces dotted roughly the city. Fans of graffiti in addition to street fine art mightiness too desire to banking enterprise check out these maps of world in addition to street art:

The Big Art Mob - worldwide map of world street art
ArtAround - world fine art map for Washington DC
Mural Locator - a worldwide mural map
Arte Fora create Museu - São Paulo world fine art map
Pittsburgh's Murals in addition to Public Art Map

A Guided Venice Gondola Tour

Roll-up, roll-up, for the magical Gondola tour.

Google today added about beautiful Street View imagery of Venice. I've speedily set together a Venice Unilapse application that allows y'all to persuasion about of the highlights of the novel imagery. In the application all y'all get got to create is scroll upwardly as well as downward the page to progress through my petty tour of Venice.

So check on tight every minute I accept y'all nether the Bridge of Sighs, across St Marks Square, downward the Grand Canal as well as by the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute.

Where Non To Purchase & Consume Nutrient Inwards Novel York

The New York World has mapped the New York State Department of Agriculture as well as Markets supermarket inspections from Jan 2008 to July 2013.

Inspectors catch every grocery shop at to the lowest degree in 1 lawsuit a year. The New York World has mapped all the supermarkets that had 'critical deficiencies' flagged inward the inspections. Users tin search the map past times neighborhood, zipcode or address to detect the local supermarkets to a greater extent than or less them that convey been shown to convey issues deemed every bit "an immediate threat to the populace wellness as well as welfare."


The NYC BigMaps has used the Your Mapper map creation tool to map eatery inspections as well as 311 service calls inward New York City.

The eatery inspections map displays New York City Department of Health inspections across five boroughs since Jan 2008. You tin search the map past times category, engagement range, keyword, as well as location. The map as well as then displays restaurants on the map at the place y'all searched.

Green map markers betoken restaurants amongst no wellness violations.