Mapping Boston's Gas Leaks

The Conservation Law Foundation has released an in-depth study into Massachusetts’ antiquated natural gas distribution system. Much of the ageing Massachusetts’ gas pipeline organisation is rattling one-time in addition to prone to leaks, creating a pregnant world security in addition to environmental hazard.

The Conservation Law Foundation's study into Massachusetts' Triple Threat discusses inwards especial the security threat of gas leaks, the direct chances to the surroundings in addition to the terms to gas customers. Each of these original sections of the study is illustrated amongst an accompanying interactive map.


The 3 maps visualize gas leaks past times flat level, marsh gas emissions in addition to where gas leaks accept been repaired.

One frequent work that I come upward across inwards online long course of educational activity journalism is embedded maps that are squeezed into a pocket-sized infinite to relieve on valuable covert real-estate. The Massachusetts' Triple Threat study manages to neatly overcome this work past times providing a full-screen pick on each map.

Greenpeace Maps Novel Zealand Fossil Oil Spill

Oil society Anadarko volition start deep bounding main exploratory drilling this summertime off the coast of New Zealand. In answer Green Peace New Zealand has released the Oil Spill Map, which models the probable number of an crude tumble from ii sites that bring been targeted for deep bounding main drilling.

The map animates the probable effects of a blowout on either of the ii rigs together with the drift of the probable crude spill. Each animation progresses inwards daily stages, showing the increment of the crude tumble together with the presumed answer past times the New Zealand authorities.


Into the Arctic consists of a number of mapped stories recounting Greepeace's care against crude drilling inwards the Arctic.

One of the stories includes a time-line together with map of the events leading upward to the illegal boarding of the Greenpeace send Arctic Sunrise past times the Russian coast guard together with the arrest of all on board. The map shows the journeying of the Arctic Sunrise from July 1st when it gear upward canvass on its mission to break the unsafe crude drilling inwards the Arctic. It includes an trouble concern human relationship of the ship's mission together with besides tells the stories of approximately of the activists that were arrested together with placed on lawsuit inwards Russia.

Mapping The History Of The Wintertime Olympics

There are to a greater extent than or less overnice Google Maps integrated into this website well-nigh the Winter Olympic games.

Olympic Story is a well-designed website examining the history of the Winter Olympics. Olympic Story allows you lot to choose whatever of the venues that accept been used to host the Winter Olympics to notice interesting data well-nigh each games, such every bit the break of participating countries, the break of athletes too of course of written report data well-nigh who won all the medals at each games.

For each of the venues which accept hosted the Olympic Games you lot tin sentiment a Google Map visualizing which countries medals were awarded to. You tin choose to sentiment the goal of gold, silver, bronze too all medals. The full break of medals won past times each province are represented on the map past times the thickness of the lines connecting each country.

The Autocomplete Map Maker

I'm certain you've seen at to the lowest degree i of the pop autocomplete maps that accept been doing the rounds over the final few months. These maps purpose Google search autocomplete to present what are the most pop search damage for locations around the world.

Well at nowadays yous tin practise your ain amongst the Map Channels Autocomplete Map Maker. I hope yous that yous are going to accept a lot of fun playing amongst this, equally yous tin larn inwards whatsoever search damage that yous desire together with around immediately persuasion the results on your ain map. You tin fifty-fifty embed your created maps inwards your ain website.

Using the Autocomplete Map Maker yous tin practise your ain map inwards a affair of seconds together with using whatever search damage yous want. The sorcerer allows yous to larn inwards whatsoever search damage (both suffixes together with prefixes) together with therefore automatically creates your map built on Google autocomplete suggestions.

So, for example, yous tin larn inwards 'Why is' equally your prefix together with 'so' equally your suffix together with yous volition larn your ain map of the world, displaying all the pop search entries for the countries inwards the the world - Why is America therefore violent?

There are or therefore rattling clever things going on amongst the Autocomplete Map Maker. The map automatically retrieves the autocomplete search results for your ain damage from Google search. It therefore adds labels to a Google Map showing the results. You tin choose to persuasion either the results for countries or for U.S. of A. states. You tin fifty-fifty purpose your ain KML of locations to customize the map to present the results alone for your ain locations (for instance here is a map I created using a kml of or therefore of America's cities).

The labels on the map are displayed using an enhanced version of the Google Maps label library. Map Channels has enhanced the library therefore that the labels don't overlap. Where 2 labels mightiness overlap on the map, i is removed together with is alone shown equally the user zooms in. This is a slap-up enhancement to the map label library together with I'm going to endeavour together with persuade Map Channels to free the code on Github.

Why Are Arsenal In Addition To Thence Bad?

I've been having a lot of fun over the end ii days playing amongst the novel Map Channels Autocomplete Map Maker.

One of the corking features of this sorcerer for creating your ain Google search autocomplete maps is that you lot tin role a kml of your ain locations. This morning time I created a kml of all the English linguistic communication Premier League teams to discovery out what the Google autocomplete suggestions were for English linguistic communication football game clubs.

The English Premier League Autocomplete Map isn't truly that enlightening. Most of the results are bespeak why teams are in addition to then bad, or for a really few teams why they are in addition to then good. Manchester City are 1 of the few clubs to elicit simply about other response. As far equally City are concerned most people look to move wondering why they are in addition to then rich.

However if you lot click on whatever of the teams' label on the map you lot tin persuasion a listing of Google Autocomplete search suggestions for that club. For event if you lot click on the Manchester United label on the map you lot volition meet a arrive at of responses, including:

Why are Manchester United in addition to then bad this season?
Why are Manchester United in addition to then popular?
Why are Manchester United in addition to then successful?
Why are Manchester United in addition to then good?
Why are Manchester United in addition to then hated?

(If you lot are wondering close the answers to those Man Utd questions - hither they are: David Moyes, glory hunting fans, they aren't anymore, they aren't anymore, glory hunting fans.)

Mapping Life On Earth

The Map of Life is an impressive endeavor to map life on Earth.

Using the application it is possible to click on a Google Map together with decease a listing of all the unlike types of bird, fish, reptile, amphibian or mammal that alive inwards a laid upward radius around that location. For example, if I click on my address the map returns a listing of 168 unlike types of aeroplane together with 32 unlike types of mammal.

It is too possible to role the map to stance the worldwide habitats of unlike species. If yous teach into the cite of an creature species the map volition shade inwards the areas of the world that the creature inhabits.


The USA National Phenology Network's Phenology Visualization Tool helps monitor the influence of climate on the phenology of plants, animals, together with landscapes inwards the U.S..

The site allows users to pick out a constitute or creature together with stance where that species has been reported on a Google Map. It is together with thence possible to stance an animation of the species' phenology (phenology refers to recurring constitute together with creature life bike stages) through time.

It is too possible to stance climate information on the same map. Users tin move stance maximum temperature, minimum temperature together with atmospheric precipitation either yesteryear calendar month or annually. If yous animate species information through time, with climate visible, yous volition encounter the climate information on the background modify amongst the phenology data.


The Atlas of Living Australia is the world human face upward of a $64.7 i grand 1000 initiative, funded over vi years yesteryear the Australian Government. Using the Atlas users tin move find, access, combine together with visualize information on Australian plants together with animals. It aims to enable whatever user to rapidly locate together with access information on all aspects of Australian biodiversity.

The website uses Google Maps to let users to search, analyse together with combine biodiversity together with environmental information geographically. The Species Map allows yous to search for species yesteryear mutual or scientific names. Occurrences are together with thence mapped equally points or equally numbered cluster markers. Clicking on the map at a detail place returns a inquiry on how many occurrences of detail species are inwards a 10km radius from the selected point.

The application comes with a long listing of contextual layers. All are good referenced to metadata with auto-generated legends for slowly identification of what diverse color scales mean. Created maps tin move move saved equally images for farther reuse.


The Web of Life provides a Google Maps based interface for easily visualizing together with downloading information on ecological networks of species interactions.

The map displays circular markers where ecological networks are located. The color of the markers indicates the type of ecological interaction of the network. Red markers demonstrate pollination together with yellowish markers seed dispersal. If yous left-click on a mark yous tin move stance information nearly the network, including the release of species, release of interactions together with the cite of the species.


The OBIS-Seamap uses Google Maps to demonstrate the distribution together with the ecology of marine mammals, seabirds together with body of body of water turtles across the globe.

It is possible to search together with stance information on the map for a release of unlike marine species. It is too possible to filter the information shown on the map yesteryear taxon group; 'sea bird', 'sea turtle' or 'marine mammal'.

Why Are Foreigners As Well As Thus Rude?

It tin plough over the sack hold upwards tough beingness an English linguistic communication speaker travelling abroad, specially inwards countries where they don't verbalize English. I abide by that the louder I proper substantive at foreigners to attention them empathise the ruder they get.

This is manifestly a mutual sense of people when travelling abroad. At to the lowest degree judging past times my Nationalities Autocomplete Map. This map shows the autocomplete suggestions of Google search when you lot type inwards 'Why are (nationality) then ...' The results advise that everyone wonders why the English, the Czech, the Germans, the Spanish, the Russians together with the Indians are all then rude.

People look to hold upwards as dumbfounded past times the niceness of the Canadians together with the stupidity of the Americans.

Another occupation when travelling abroad is all that unusual food. The Food Autocomplete Map shows Google search autocomplete suggestions for queries inwards the bird of 'Why is (nations) nutrient then ...'. Based on this map you lot should avoid visiting America, Greece, Russia, Kingdom of Spain (all bad food) together with England together with Poland (bland food). Instead, to guarantee a adept dining experience, you lot should caput for France, Germany, United Mexican US or Nihon (all adept food).

Both these novel autocomplete maps were created inwards a few minutes using the novel Map Channels Autocomplete Map Maker.