Maps Of The Week

The Battle of Antietam was the showtime major battle inward the American Civil War to accept house on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle inward American history, resulting inward 22,717 dead, wounded, as well as missing on both sides combined.

The Civil War Trust's Battle of Antietam Animated Map is a lovingly produced video of the bloodiest solar daytime inward American history. The video includes re-enactment footage with a set out of animated maps that recount the attacks as well as counterattacks yesteryear both sides inward this bloody battle.


The site too includes a set out of interactive 360 aeroplane panoramic tours of or as well as thus of the of import battlefield locations. After watching the video map of the battle it is fascinating to hold out able to sentiment the 360 tours as well as piece of work a showtime mortal sentiment of the battlefield on the ground.


Trafficways is a wonderful collection of beautiful map layers on 1 OpenStreetMap map. The maps include visualizations of air flights, Flickr photos, the U.S. of A. census data, GPS lines & speed as well as a whole lot more.

The map too includes a set out of options that permit you lot to refine the appearance of the dissimilar map layers. The visualization options include brightness as well as gamma controls as well as options to suit the set out of dots used inward presenting the mapped data.


One of the around shared maps on social media this calendar week was Stephanie May's Rental Housing Affordability inward San Francisco. The map shows how many full-time minimum wage jobs you lot postulate to afford a 2 sleeping accommodation apartment inward each of San Francisco's neighborhoods.

Let's merely nation that if you lot desire a apartment inward Mission Bay you lot amend start applying for a few to a greater extent than jobs.

The Google Maps Of The Week

I practise dearest a skillful animate beingness tracking map, as well as then LifeWatch's plane tracking maps gibe the nib nicely. LifeWatch are currently tracking xxx gulls as well as march harriers using GPS units as well as CartoDB powered Google Maps. 

Unfortunately the alive real-time map is no longer of much operate every bit the birds convey flown S for the wintertime as well as are out of attain of the project's antennas. However LifeWatch has created or as well as then interesting maps using the information tracks from the saltation as well as summer.

These include an intensity map of Eric, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, breeding inwards the colony of Zeebrugge. The map shows Eric's movements over 2 months, revealing his most visited locations, including his frequent day-trips to Bruges. Using the same information LifeWatch every bit good created a map showing his paths for every day. In this map Eric's daily flying paths are colored past times twenty-four lx minutes catamenia to present how his flying blueprint changed over the 2 months.

Vizzuality's Torque library was every bit good used to practise a fascinating animated map showing all Eric's movements over the 2 months inwards but 150 seconds.


This calendar week Amtrak 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 lay of all the network's trains.

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

Users tin attain the sack every bit good click on private stations to stance station details as well as the station address. 


One of the effects of the Federal Government Shutdown is that 800,000 federal workers convey been indefinitely furloughed without pay. The Washington Post has created a Google Map to present how the regime shutdown effects federal workers across the United States.

The Federal Government Shutdown Map shows the peak 100 tube areas amongst regime as well as armed services areas every bit a per centum of the full workforce. The map markers are sized inwards proportion to the size of the divulge of federal workers (as a per centum of full employment).

If you lot direct whatever of the markers on the map you lot tin attain the sack stance the full divulge of federal workers, the full divulge of the workforce as well as the per centum of federal employees inwards the selected tube area.

If you lot are a non-essential federal worker living inwards the Washington DC expanse you lot mightiness desire to cheque out this map that shows the locations of businesses offering exceptional deals for furloughed federal workers. 

London's Pollution On Google Maps

The London Air Quality Network provides information close air character inwards as well as approximately London.

The site includes a Google Map that allows Londoners to sentiment air character from monitoring stations positioned approximately the capital. The stations collect information on London's air character twice a solar daytime as well as the map is updated hourly.

The London Air Quality Network likewise includes a Google Map of the annual hateful pollution inwards London during 2008 as well as a map that shows which areas of London failed to come across the Great Britain government's Air Quality Strategy Objectives during 2012.

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

Google Static Maps Api Wizards

If you lot don't postulate a fully interactive slippy map you lot tin purpose the Google Static Maps API to embed a Google Maps ikon on your spider web page without requiring JavaScript or whatever dynamic page loading.

The API is fairly elementary to implement as well as creates a map based on URL parameters. The URL parameters tin live on quite long notwithstanding which tin Pb to some confusion. I've ever institute it easiest to purpose Google's Static Maps API Wizard when I postulate to create a static map. The sorcerer allows you lot to lead a location, the base of operations map type you lot require as well as define the size of your static map. It as well as therefore creates the URL for you lot to embed your static map.

Unfortunately the sorcerer isn't brilliantly designed. That's why you lot powerfulness desire to purpose Katy Decorah's novel Static Map Maker instead. The Static Map Maker likewise allows you lot to easily create a static map as well as generate the URL for a publish of dissimilar ikon formats. The sorcerer is a lot easier to purpose than Google's ain sorcerer as well as involves a lot less needless scrolling upwards as well as downwardly the page to stance the changes that you lot brand to your static map.

Both Google's ain sorcerer as well as the Static Map Maker both ignore the Styled Map options inward the Google Static Maps API. These options let you lot to lead which map features look on your static map as well as fifty-fifty let you lot to customize the colors of map features. There is soundless a picayune niche in that place for somebody to create a Static Maps Wizard that allows you lot to play around amongst map styles.

Street View likewise has its ain Static Street View Image API. H5N1 few years dorsum I created this really elementary Static Street View Wizard to generate the URL to embed a static Street View.

The Historic Menses Of Chicago's Buildings Mapped

Mapping the Age of Buildings for like maps of New York, Portland, Reykjavík, the whole of the Netherlands together with Ljubljana.

The Map To Nerd Heaven

Vasile Cotovanu has created the map to nerd sky in addition to it involves taking the train. Vasile's real-time simulator of the Swiss runway network has long been 1 of my favorite maps. It is at 1 time fifty-fifty better.

The SBB Network is a real-time map of the Swiss runway organization based on the network's published timetable. The map allows you lot to persuasion animated trains moving inwards real-time on a Google Map. Actually until today the map has allowed you lot to lookout adult man map markers moving simply about on a map. Only now you lot tin persuasion actual trains.

Vasile's latest update to the map way that when you lot switch to satellite persuasion the map icons alter to images of existent trains moving simply about the map. The screenshot higher upward doesn't create the map justice. In the screenshot you lot tin simply brand out 3 trains. The trains are genuinely much easier to alternative out on the map - because they are moving.

My tip for using the map is to click on an private train. This loads an data window most the selected train's schedule. The data window includes a 'Follow' button. Click the follow push to perish on the map centered on your selected train!

For at 1 time this existent prepare characteristic is solely available inwards the expanse simply about the Zürich Oerlikon area. Zürich Oerlikon is 1 of the busiest prepare stations inwards Switzerland. There is a prepare passing through the station every 2-3 minutes in addition to then you lot should move able to honour enough of trains to follow.

As I ever suspected the journeying to nerd sky is past times train.

The Google Maps Tweetbot

Tweet a transit inquiry to this Google Maps based road finder in addition to yous volition have a link to a Google Map that automagically displays your route.

Plan Paris Metro interactif industrial plant actually good every moment a traditional Paris Metro road finder. You tin larn into whatsoever ii destinations into the application in addition to sentiment a suggested road shown on a Google Map, You likewise kicking the bucket step-by-step directions explaining how to compete your journey.

What I similar best close this map yet is the amazing Tweetbot characteristic that allows yous to asking a road via Twitter. Post a message on Twitter to '@vasyenmetro' in addition to squall ii Metro stations in addition to yous volition automatically have a reply including a link to your suggested route. Messages require to live on submitted inwards the bird '@vasyenmetro station1/station2' e.g. '@vasyenmetro hakeim/blanc'.