The Magnificent Maps Of The Week

Last week's Maps of the Week round-up was dominated past times vintage New York maps as well as animated conditions maps. So I idea I;d shake-it upwardly a combat alongside this week's Magnificent Maps of the Week, which features vintage maps of New York as well as animated conditions maps.

I honestly hadn't intended to characteristic my own Gangs of New York map this week. However it does characteristic quite highly inwards the novel Most Read Posts of the Week listing (see the sidebar on the right), thence who am I to argue.

The map recounts a famous 19th Century New York gang battle betwixt members of the Dead Rabbits gang as well as the Bowery Boys, using an historical map as well as images from the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

I created the map using Leaflet.js as well as waypoints.js. Using waypoint.js alongside Leaflet allows you lot to trigger map interactions past times browser scrolling. The outcome is that you lot merely remove to scroll downwards the Gangs of New York map to progress through this retelling of the Dead Rabbits Riot.


Over the terminal calendar month at that spot has been or thence bang-up examples of mapped visualizations of conditions data. Weather-grid.GL is or thence other bang-up map visualization library, which plant peculiarly good when displaying atmospheric information on an interactive map.

The Weather-grid.GL website explains how you lot tin role the library to convert gridded information into LeafletJS WebGL overlays. The site likewise includes a link to the library's GitHub page as well as to a break of event maps created alongside the library.

This Intermountain West NDFD Grids alongside Leaflet WebGL map is in all likelihood the best event of the assort of impressive interactive conditions map which tin go created using the library. The map allows you lot to persuasion temperature, RH, air current speed as well as atmospheric precipitation layers on the map. With each layer you lot tin wheel frontward or dorsum through the conditions information inwards hourly increments as well as scout every bit the information updates close instantaneously on the map.


Last twelvemonth Jonathan Soma created a bang-up mapped visualization of unmarried men as well as women inwards the USA. The U.S. Singles Map shows the break of unmarried men as well as women inwards metropolitan statistical areas (major cities as well as their suburbs), allowing you lot to suit the results displayed on the map past times age.

The map is bang-up if you lot don't heed traveling halfway across the province inwards search of a partner - but non much role if you lot desire to uncovering a local date. Luckily Jonathan has got a combat to a greater extent than local alongside his latest 2 maps, showing where the singles alive inwards New York City as well as San Francisco.

The NYC Singles Map shows singles men as well as women organized past times zip-code as well as gender. The map reveals that inwards Manhattan at that spot are far to a greater extent than immature unmarried women than men. So if you lot are woman somebody as well as aged betwixt xx as well as 34 as well as alive inwards Manhattan your best bet is to commute out of the borough if you lot desire to appointment someone of your ain age.

If you lot are a immature unmarried adult woman inwards San Francisco as well as thence your luck is in. The Bay Area Singles Map shows that 1 outcome of the 'Google Shuttle Effect' is that the metropolis is total of immature unmarried men. The province of affairs inwards San Francisco entirely actually changes when you lot movement the historic menses ranges to somewhere to a higher identify the historic menses of 50. Once you lot larn to these historic menses ranges most of the Bay Area shows a lot to a greater extent than unmarried women, although much of San Francisco remains dominated past times unmarried men inwards this historic menses range.

The Maps Of The Week

This week's Maps of the Week features no Google Maps based applications. This may reverberate a growing shift inward the residual of ability inward mapping API's away from the Google Maps API in addition to towards other providers - simply I'll operate out that fence for to a greater extent than or less other time.

For immediately lets concentrate on to a greater extent than or less of the best maps of the past times week.


This calendar week I was real impressed alongside ii maps that await at the thorny number of immigration in addition to refugees. Whatever your sentiment on immigration the stories of migrants deserve to locomote told in addition to I haven't seen the migrant's storey ameliorate told than inward the Global Mail's novel mapped interactive written report on Hussain's Journey.

Filmmaker Matt Abbott gave Muhammad Hussain, a Hazara Pakistani most to ready out on a journeying to assay asylum inward Australia, a video photographic television camera in addition to asked him to cinema his experiences. The Global Mail's mapped written report starts off alongside Matt Abbot's ain recordings of Muhammad Hussain's household unit of measurement in addition to life inward Karachi.

When Muhammad ready off on his unsafe journeying to Commonwealth of Australia he took over the filming himself. The mapped written report of this journeying allows yous to sentiment his experiences inward condom houses, inward smugglers’ homes in addition to the in conclusion stretch across the body of body of water inward a rickety boat. 

 
Since the kickoff of the Syrian civil country of war at to the lowest degree ii 1 yard m refugees pick out fled the province in addition to to a greater extent than than 5 1 yard m pick out been displaced internally. Most of the refugees pick out fled to neighboring countries. This humanitarian crisis has placed a huge burden on Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Republic of Iraq in addition to Iraqi Kurdistan.

Al Jazeera has created a mapped visualization to assistance bring the scale of rehousing 7 1 yard m people. Where would 7 1 yard m displaced Syrians fit? allows yous to overlay the surface area needed to rehouse 7 1 yard m people on whatsoever location inward the United States.

The surface area of soil needed at each US location is based on the electrical flow population density equally revealed past times the 2010 census. Viewing the refugee overlay on tiptop of your ain home-town actually helps to bring the humanitarian crisis caused past times the Syrian civil war.


It is immediately over a calendar month since Russian Federation arrested 28 Greenpeace activists in addition to ii journalists. The thirty are immediately facing a accuse of hooliganism, a accuse that could lawsuit inward upward to 7 years inward jail.

Greenpeace has released a time-line in addition to map of the events leading upward to the illegal boarding of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise past times the Russian coast guard in addition to the arrest of all on board. Into the Arctic maps the journeying of the Arctic Sunrise from July 1st when it ready canvass on its mission to expose the unsafe crude oil drilling inward the Arctic.

The map shows the runway of the Arctic Sunrise in addition to the time-line explains the ship's mission in addition to also tells the stories of to a greater extent than or less of the activists immediately facing trial inward Russia.

You tin lav present your back upward for the Arctic thirty past times sending a missive of the alphabet or email to your Russian embassy.

The Maps Of The Week

The big interactive mapping intelligence this calendar week was the unloose of the Mapbox GL API. Mapbox GL has some really powerful options for dynamic styling as well as map interactivity on the client-side. I'm certain that inwards the close futurity nosotros volition meet lots of Maps of the Week built on elevation of Mapbox GL.

Mapbox has begun to add together some instance maps to the API documentation. Among the nigh interesting of these maps is this satellite sentiment map featuring video playback on a map.


While Mapbox GL may betoken to the futurity of interactive mapping CartoDB's Torque library is behind some of the impressive maps of the present. Torque powered maps conduct maintain regularly featured inwards Google Maps of the Week posts over the final 2 years. Of belatedly in that place has been also many Twitter information based maps created amongst Torque for my liking.

That's why I was pleased to meet 3 Torque powered maps this calendar week that used other, to a greater extent than interesting, data. Global Terrorism, 2013 was likely the nigh interesting of these 3 maps. This map uses Torque as well as CartoDB's Odyssey.js library to animate a year's worth of terrorist attacks some the world.

The other 2 maps were How INXS Conquered the World, a Torque powered Leaflet map which plots the touring schedule of the Australian band, as well as a serial of animated maps of New York's Citibike data.


Another map which impressed me this calendar week was from Taxi Stockholm. This heat-map of a year's worth of taxi trip information is combined amongst Google's Places library to furnish an interesting insight into the city's hot-spots.

Taxi Trails has taken the information from all of Stockholm's GPS enabled cabs as well as used the Google Maps API to practise a heat-map of taxi destinations inwards the Swedish capital. Taxi Stockholm believe that this heat-map is non alone a beautiful information visualization only it tin also travel useful for tourists visiting the city.

If y'all are visiting Stockholm for the origin fourth dimension y'all tin role the map to notice pop hot-spots inwards the city. For example, if y'all are looking for somewhere to become on a Sabbatum night, y'all tin refine the map to exhibit the nigh pop destinations for Stockholm cabs inwards the eve on a Sabbatum nighttime as well as and hence role the 'Explore this area' selection to notice bars as well as restaurants nearby.

The Basis Loving Cup Maps Of The Week

One of the symptoms of my electrical flow World Cup delirium is that Google was overcome yesteryear a rash of football game related maps this week. This agency of shape that I get got a rather restricted puddle from which to take away this edition of the Maps of the Week. The obvious solution is to get got a exceptional World Cup Maps of the Week round-up.


Mapping the birthplaces of the players inwards this year's World Cup has been ane pop topic inwards World Cup related maps. The World Cup Birthplaces map uses Google Maps Engine to demonstrate where every thespian competing inwards the 2014 World Cup was born. However I felt that the 2014 World Cup Players' Places of Birth map, made amongst CartoDB too Kimonlabs, was a ameliorate visualization of the same data.

The 2014 World Cup Players' Places of Birth map genuinely allows y'all to select to persuasion only the birthplaces of players for whatever private team. This provides a much less cluttered persuasion of the data, enabling y'all run across to a greater extent than clearly the locations where each team's players were born.


You've likely seen the New York Times' maps of the Basketball Nation too the Baseball Nation. These maps demonstrate the back upward of the United States of America baseball game too basketball game teams based on their let on of Facebook fans.

Now Facebook has got inwards on the act themselves yesteryear releasing the 2014 World Cup Fan Map. This map shows the let on of fans roughly the Blue Planet for x of the best players appearing inwards this year's World Cup.

Ronaldo leads the way amongst an incredible 84 ane grand m fans on Facebook across the world. Poor onetime Messi's star genuinely seems to get got dimmed over the end season. He comes inwards second, amongst approaching sixty ane grand m fans.


Over the end dyad of months I don't holler back that a major sporting consequence has taken house anywhere inwards the Blue Planet without an accompanying Twitter map. This World Cup is no exception. The opening game betwixt Brazil too Republic of Croatia was watched yesteryear football game fans roughly the world. In 150 of those countries football game fans also took to Twitter to verbalize near the game.

Brazil v Croatia: how the initiatory gibe played out on Twitter is some other swell event of a CartoDB animated map of Tweets. Brazil mightiness get got been lucky to get got won the opening game but they were the clear winners of the Twitter conversations taking house roughly the game.

Since the opening game at that spot get got been like maps created for England vs Italy too Spain vs Netherlands.

The Google Maps Api Rules The Waves

The Google Maps API squad relaxing on their 2 twelvemonth sabbatical

I was taken dorsum yesteryear the reaction to my post on The Slow Death of the Google Maps API. That i post got 20 times equally many hits equally the 2nd close pop post on Google concluding week.

I wasn't surprised that the post was pop inward some quarters. After all, at that spot is a pathological hate of Google Maps inward the military machine fly of the opened upwards mapping community. However I was surprised yesteryear the consummate lack of disagreement amongst the post inward the post's comments or inward the discussions that followed on Twitter in addition to Google+.

I was expecting many inward the mapping community to defend the Google Maps API. After all it is soundless hugely pop in addition to is soundless a vivid mapping API. With no i defending the Google Maps API against my prepare on I gauge I'll own got to produce then myself.

First off the headline of the post 'The Slow Death of the Google Maps API' was obvious click-bait, an sweat to lure inward readers amongst a sensationalist post title. The Google Maps API soundless remains pop amongst many map developers in addition to is patently soundless really much alive.

Secondly, the chief thrust of my declaration was that the Google Maps API squad has been completely inactive over the concluding 2 years. This is demonstrably untrue. Over the concluding few years Google has been busy developing the first-class Google Maps SDK for iOS in addition to the Google Maps API v2 for Android.

It seems to me that Google run across mobile platforms equally the futurity of the spider web in addition to the Google Maps API squad so seem to hold upwards focusing their efforts inward supporting mobile devices. It precisely then happens that this is an surface area that I'm non peculiarly interested inward -but I await Google know their describe of piece of employment organisation far ameliorate that I do.

Thirdly, despite the huge strides made yesteryear MapBox in addition to LeafletJS, Google Maps soundless has some built inward advantages over some of its newer competitors. Google's extensive Street View coverage offers map developers unique access to street score images inward an e'er growing unwrap of countries around the world.

Google's satellite imagery also provides map imagery that is less developed inward its newer competitors. However MapBox are making huge strides frontwards inward providing aerial imagery in addition to I'm certain that they volition expire along to improve inward this area.

Google also patently excels inward search. The Google Places API provides map developers amongst unrivaled access to describe of piece of employment organisation locations in addition to points of involvement around the world. OpenStreetMaps Map Features render developers amongst access to like kinds of information all the same the Google Places API provides the close piece of cake means for developers to precisely plug-in a powerful search engine for businesses in addition to points of involvement into their maps.


My belief is that where MapBox in addition to LeafletJS are overtaking the Google Maps API is inward the surface area of command over map blueprint in addition to presentation. Mobile devices aside, I mean value that the big increment surface area inward online mapping inward the side yesteryear side few years volition hold upwards inward Map Storytelling. I promise that the variety of mapped narrative, demonstrated then wonderfully inward The Guardian's In Flight – Interactive Map concluding week, volition expire to a greater extent than commonplace on the internet.

Maps are nifty tools inward the visualization of information in addition to I believe that developers volition starting fourth dimension incorporating these information visualizations to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than into powerful mapped narratives. Not precisely using maps to explore information but using the information in addition to mapping APIs to tell the stories behind that data.

For these variety of mapped narratives developers volition desire increasing command over the blueprint of the underlying map features of a maps API. The Google Styled Maps characteristic is practiced but both MapBox in addition to LeafletJS render far greater command over the blueprint features of the displayed map layers. This is i surface area where I believe Google needs to halt resting on its laurels.


There is i other possible argue why the Google Maps API squad seem to own got been then inactive. I've had my suspicions for a land that the lack of novel features inward the maps API may hold upwards because Google are busy working on the Google Maps API v4 (an API that ties inward to a greater extent than tightly amongst the facial expression in addition to experience of the novel facial expression Google Maps). If that is truthful nosotros mightiness good own got to hold off for this year's Google I/O earlier nosotros listen of whatsoever novel developments inward the Google Maps API.

The Maps Of The Week

This calendar week I was impressed alongside a expose of applications that brand creative exercise of Google Maps Street View. The Keyhole Conundrum and A Town Called Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Paradise are both impressive games in addition to the Point & Click Street View Browser is an interesting experiment inward creating a novel agency to navigate Google Maps Street View. However my favorite Street View application this calendar week was the frightening World Under Water.

Do y'all desire to encounter what your menage volition await similar 1 time global warming causes an inevitable rising inward ocean levels? Just type inward your address into World Under Water in addition to y'all can, thank y'all to the glory of Street View.

World Under Water is a real powerful crusade from Carbon Story which uses Google's panoramic imagery to laissez passer on y'all a glimpse of your domicile nether water. There are a expose of Google Maps that tin laissez passer on y'all a map sentiment of rising ocean levels. However World Under Water has a far greater visual impact, merely because y'all tin truly accept a glimpse of your ain domicile sinking nether the rising seas on Street View.


One of my favorite maps of the weeks is tracking outbreaks of MERS. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory affliction caused past times a coronavirus called MERS-CoV. The infection tin induce severe acuate respiratory illness, fever in addition to shortness of breath. Currently the infection has a mortality charge per unit of measurement of approximately 27%.

MERS has in addition to thus far largely been confined to the Arabian Peninsula but a few cases receive got too been reported inward Europe in addition to final calendar week the start illustration was reported inward the United States. The MERS Corona Map is tracking occurrences of the infection approximately the world.

The map uses information from the World Health Organization in addition to wellness ministries to runway the spread of the infection. Colored round out map markers demo the expose of people infected inward cities. You tin click on the markers to sentiment the full expose of infections in addition to the expose of deaths caused past times the virus.

The map too allows y'all to filter the map to demo the latest cities to written report infections or to sentiment the cities that receive got reported the virtually infections.


One of the virtually viewed maps on Google this calendar week was this animated map the increment of Ikea, showing the opening of Ikea stores approximately the footing over the final fifty years.

The map of Ikea Store Openings has an ingenious scroll bar command which I like. Essentially Ikea Store Openings is an animated time-line in addition to mapped visualization of the increment of Ikea over time. As y'all scroll downwards the page the time-line moves in addition to the corresponding shop openings look on the map.

The map includes a clever auto-scrolling function. Click the play push in addition to y'all tin laissez passer on your mouse finger a residuum every bit the time-line automatically scrolls downwards in addition to the stores magically look on the map.

The Leaflet Maps Of The Week

There has been some swell maps this week. Some of them were created amongst the Google Maps API in addition to some of them amongst the Leaflet mapping platform. This calendar week I've decided to separate the Maps of the Week round-up into 2 posts. Later I'll hold off at the best Google Maps of the yesteryear week, exactly commencement let's stimulate got a hold off at the best Leaflet maps featured on Google inwards the final 7 days.

By far the virtually viewed map on Google this calendar week was Donut Holes inwards International Waters. This postal service had vi times to a greater extent than page views than the side yesteryear side virtually viewed postal service on Google (which was tidings of Google Maps' novel historic Street View imagery pick - Time Travel amongst Street View).

Donut Holes inwards International Waters is an interactive map showing who has sovereignty over seas some the world. The map every bit good highlights 'doughnut holes', areas which are designated every bit international waters in addition to which tin endure areas of territorial dispute betwixt dissimilar countries.

To exercise the map the author, Dmitriy Skougarevskiy, had to blueprint an interactive map that included the province maritime borders defining each country's sovereignty over the world's seas. He every bit good had to exercise his ain bathymetry layer.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 postal service on the CartoDB Blog explains inwards some item how Dmitriy created his beautiful looking maritime map.


Biking from Place to Place is a neat Leaflet map visualization of Chicago's cycle percentage network. The map uses a really clever Voronoi oestrus map technique which allows you lot to notice out the publish of cycle trips from whatsoever cycle station in addition to persuasion the virtually pop destinations from each station.

Select a cycle station on the map in addition to you lot tin persuasion a oestrus map showing the virtually pop destinations from that station. The map provides some interesting insights into the move patterns of Divvy cycle users. For example, if you lot select a cycle station along Lake Michigan you lot chop-chop notice that virtually Divvy users borrow bikes hither to cycle to other cycle stations along the lake shore.

The oestrus map overlay uses a really clever Voronoi map technique which allows you lot to notice the nearest cycle station to whatsoever location. If you lot betoken to whatsoever place on the map the nearest cycle station is automatically selected for you lot in addition to the Voronoi oestrus map overlay every bit good shows you lot the areas some the goal stations.


Trip Risk is a neat route-planning map for Melbourne, Commonwealth of Australia which displays accident dark spots along suggested routes. The map uses opened upward sourced information on machine crashes, from the State Government of Victoria, to non alone advise a driving road exactly every bit good demo you lot all the machine crashes that stimulate got taken house along that route.

The crash markers along the suggested road are sized to stand upward for the full publish of crashes at each location. You tin click on the crash markers to persuasion the publish of crashes at a place in addition to the full publish of people involved inwards crashes. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 carmine point signifies a crash that involved a fatality.

The results displayed on the map tin every bit good endure filtered yesteryear speed in addition to yesteryear accident type. 

Wow - It's The Maps Of The Week

The Mapbox Blog is continuing to showcase nifty maps built using Turf.js. Last calendar week 1 of my favorite maps was a road planner using Capital Bikeshare stations. That map used Turf.js alongside peak information to render an amazing 3d peak nautical chart along a wheel route.

This calendar week the Mapbox Blog continued to demonstrate the geospatial processing abilities of Turf alongside an animated map of the Iditarod, an annual sled Canis familiaris race which takes house inwards Alaska. Time Travel Across the Iditarod alongside Turf replays the whole race, allowing you lot to follow the progress of each of the Canis familiaris sleds over the shape of the xv 24-hour interval race.


CartoDB has also been busy alongside novel characteristic releases. This calendar week they announced CartoDB Heat Maps. The novel oestrus maps selection inwards CartoDB leverages the ability of the Torque library, which allows developers to efficiently homecoming in addition to pose out real large datasets to the client.

Torque is in all likelihood best known for its temporal capabilities, which ability all those real pop animated Twitter maps that you lot conduct keep no incertitude seen (for instance this Super Bowl Twitter map). The novel CartoDB Heat Maps options tin terminate also purpose Torque's temporal abilities to practice animated oestrus maps.

These novel animated oestrus maps are of shape real visually engaging. However, the best instance of a map using CartoDB Heat Maps that I've seen in addition to hence far is this Placenames Heatmap. The map allows you lot to persuasion a oestrus map of words used inwards the States place-names.

Type a discussion into the map in addition to it searches States place-names in addition to creates a oestrus map of the results. In the screenshot inwards a higher house you lot tin terminate encounter the results of searching for place-names, including the words 'silver' in addition to 'gold'.


This calendar week I was also impressed alongside Events Visualization, an interesting agency to animate a time-line of events on a Google Map. The tool tin terminate assistance you lot practice a mapped visualization of events across fourth dimension in addition to infinite alongside markers indicating the magnitude of events.

The tool comes alongside an interesting demo map visualizing Islamic terrorist attacks only about the basis since 1983. The map animates through each prepare on inwards chronological order, alongside 3 dissimilar speeds of playback. The cherry-red round down markers are scaled to correspond the issue of deaths involved inwards each attack.


Finally, for a flake of fun, you lot mightiness also desire to conduct keep a await at Baaam.international, a Leaflet map which allows you lot to describe on a blank map. Actually the map isn't solely blank every bit you lot conduct keep to part your canvass alongside other artists signing-in from only about the world.

Once you lot conduct keep zoomed into a blank department of the map you lot tin terminate select the 'draw' tool to outset drawing direct on the map. When you lot conduct keep finished your sketch, if you lot similar what you lot conduct keep drawn, you lot tin terminate select the 'share' push to catch a URL which provides a direct link to your drawing on the map.

The Best Maps Of The Week

Last week's United Nations climate alter acme inward New York seems to convey led to a ascension inward the global output of environs maps. This calendar week iii environmental maps actually caught my eye.

The Changing Global Emissions Map and the FFDAS Map  are ii nicely designed maps which visualize CO₂ emissions closed to the world. Using either of the maps you lot tin uncovering the carbon emissions of whatsoever province closed to the world.

This calendar week equally good saw the unloose of the Carbon Footprint Map, which visualizes the average annual describe of piece of employment solid carbon footprint of zip code areas inward the United States. The map reveals a clear pattern inward large cities, which shows that those living inward the oculus of cities convey a lower describe of piece of employment solid carbon footprint than those living inward urban gist suburbs.


This calendar week I was equally good impressed past times this campus map of Essex University. In detail this map has a non bad management service, which provides directions betwixt whatsoever ii campus buildings.

The Essex University campus map, WAI2Go, non alone looks beautiful it equally good has a set out of actually useful navigation features. The custom built directions service tin render directions betwixt whatsoever ii points on campus. You tin fifty-fifty asking the 'shortest route', a 'step gratuitous route' or an 'indoor road (where possible).

Another non bad characteristic of the Essex University campus map is its indoor maps. Select the 'campus overview' selection too you lot tin sentiment indoor map plans for dissimilar buildings too fifty-fifty the dissimilar flooring levels inward each building.

Combine this amongst the directions service too you lot tin rapidly abide by your road betwixt whatsoever ii rooms on campus. Click on a room too you lot tin  select 'directions to' or 'directions from' this room. I actually similar how the management service manages to navigate users betwixt dissimilar flooring levels on their journey.


There are 28 megacities inward the world, cities amongst a population inward excess of 10 million. This Esri map looks at the increment of x of these megacites closed to the globe over the final century.

The Age of Megacities maps the increment of x global megacities past times examining the expanding urban footprint of each urban gist over the years. For each of the megacities you lot tin sentiment a serial of map overlays, showing the size of the urban gist at dissimilar times inward the final ane hundred years or so.

For representative the map of Chicago allows you lot to sentiment the city's urban extent inward 1929, 1954, 1972 too inward 2014. It is so possible to sentiment how Chicago has grown since 1929. As good equally Chicago, You tin equally good role the map to visualize the increment of Tokyo, Shanghai, United Mexican States City, Sao Paulo, Lagos, Los Angeles, Paris, London too Johannesburg,

Maps Of The Week

My favorite map of the past times calendar week was this tool to query OpenStreetMap chemical component tags to exhibit province usage inwards Germany.

Flächennutzungstool (Land Use Tool) shows how province is used based on OpenStreetMap data. The map includes iii drawing tools (circular, rectangular in addition to polygon) which allows yous to direct an expanse on a map of FRG to encounter the proportion of dissimilar province usage.

After yous direct an expanse on the map, features are automatically colored past times province use. The colors dot residential, commercial in addition to dark-green infinite province usage inwards the expanse selected. When yous direct an expanse on the map yous tin post away also stance a graph inwards the map sidebar to exhibit the proportion of province usage for each classification inwards the selected area.


One of the most shared maps on this calendar week was this map of surveillance cameras around London's congestion accuse border. On Thursday, 30th Oct 2014 James Bridle laid upward out to walk the perimeter of the London Congestion Charge Zone.

While on the walk James planned to direct maintain photos of all the surveillance cameras decorating the route. Unfortunately James was non able to consummate a total circuit of the Congestion Charge Zone. During his walk he was placed nether citizen arrest past times safety guards from the Grosvenor House Hotel in addition to and hence later questioned past times the police push clitoris for the suspicious demeanour of carrying a photographic television set camera inwards London.

James did manage to consummate roughly one-half of his planned road in addition to was able to direct maintain 427 photos of the surveillance cameras. You tin post away stance the location in addition to photos of all the surveillance cameras that James documented on this Paranoid Cartography map. The map includes an animated heat-map layer which is drawn on the map chronologically. While the heat-map layer is beingness drawn a slide-show of all James' photos also plays out on the map.

You tin post away read to a greater extent than well-nigh the walk in addition to the projection on the
Another pop map this calendar week was Google's 36 Hours paid advertising characteristic inwards the The New York Times. The primary role of this advertisement is to back upward the new Signed-in Maps feature inwards the Google Maps API.

36 Hours provides a seat out of interesting weekend guides to cities around the world. Select a metropolis on the map in addition to 36 Hours volition direct maintain yous through a planned weekend tour of the city, alongside suggestions for places where yous tin post away eat, drinkable in addition to visit. Each of the locations featured inwards the metropolis weekend guides include the Signed-in Maps feature. Therefore if yous are signed-in to a Google job organisation human relationship spell using 36 Hours yous tin post away click on the 'Save to Google Maps' pick to add together the location to your starred locations on the novel expect Google Maps.

The map introduction includes an impressive WebGL globe (designed to resemble the zoomed out expect of Google Maps). When yous click on a marking on the globe video clips render a subtle in addition to clever transition betwixt the WebGL globe in addition to a map created using the Google Maps API.

Maps Of The Fortnight

It has been a placidity duo of weeks and, every mo at that topographic point was no Maps of the Week post service end week, this calendar week nosotros accept a Maps of the Fortnight post.

Helsinki Ennen is a collection of beautiful historical maps too photographs of the Finnish capital. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 time-line runs along the bottom of the map. Select a decade from the time-line too you lot tin forcefulness out thought vintage photographs of Helsinki from that decade overlaid on a map dating from the chosen era.

Many of the photographs are likewise displayed side-by-side alongside the same thought every mo it is seen today, using Google Maps Street View. This allows you lot to run into how the metropolis has changed over the course of written report of the Twentieth Century.


This year Chris Whong created an impressive interactive map from New York Taxi Data. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 set out of other developers accept used the same data, collated past times Chris, to exercise their ain interactive maps.

The latest map of New York taxi journeys is NYC Taxi Map 2013. This 1 is an impressive example of using Google Maps with Google Cloud Dataflow. Using Cloud Dataflow the map geo-fences the taxi information past times New York neighborhoods. The final result is that you lot tin forcefulness out click on an expanse on the map to notice out the distribution of drop-off locations, the average fare, average tip percent too average set out of passengers of trips that started inwards each New York neighborhood.  


Schipol Go International is a map of all international destinations that you lot tin forcefulness out wing to from Amsterdam's Schipol airport.

The role of the Google Maps API styled map feature too custom information windows gives the map a vibrant design. The add-on of background audio to the map gets a piddling annoying exactly you lot tin forcefulness out plough the audio off. The map likewise include audio effects for each map interaction, which would locomote far less annoying on their own, too I estimate could fifty-fifty assist navigation of the map.

If you lot choose a goal on the map you lot tin forcefulness out larn a few facts virtually the selected location, such every mo the flying time, local fourth dimension too the set out of days a calendar week flights acquire out Schipol for the destination.

The Maps Of The Week

Kelly Norton has created a beautifully designed interactive map of the nigh pleasant places to alive inwards the USA. The Pleasant Place to Live Map is a point rut map of towns as well as cities inwards the U.S.A. displaying the pose out of 'pleasant' days enjoyed each year.

Norton has defined 'pleasant' equally a hateful temperature betwixt 55° F as well as 75° F alongside no pregnant atmospheric precipitation or snowfall depth, using information from the NOAA. Users tin search the map yesteryear zip-code or exactly click on the map. The v nigh pleasant as well as to the lowest degree pleasant cities are listed below the map.


Happy Birthday Gio is i of the simplest maps of the week. However it is such a bright as well as cute thought that it is equally good i of the Maps of the Week.

I'm non certain who Gio is but he has a lot of friends exactly about the world, all of whom were happy to part video birthday greetings alongside him on this personal Google Map. Happy Birthday Gio uses the Google Maps API Styled Maps characteristic to practise a distinctive, personal map for Gio's exceptional day. The map features videos from Gio's friends from all exactly about the world, which tin live on watched straight from the map.

H5N1 personal birthday map is such a sugariness idea. I bet it made Gio's day.


The unwritten dominion of online marketing of automobiles is that you lot convey to move Google Maps Street View. Nissan are the latest car manufactures to practise a clever cyberspace advertising movement that uses Google Maps satellite views as well as Street View.

The Nissan Rogue - Detour allows you lot to practise a road using Google Maps or direct from a pose out of predefined routes. Once you lot convey created a road you lot tin sit down dorsum as well as lookout adult man a brusk animation of your road on Street View alongside a pose out of Nissan Rogue inspired twists as well as turns along your drive.


Time has mapped all the geo-tagged Super Bowl related Twitter messages sent before, during as well as afterward Sunday's game. Super Bowl Pulse uses CartoDB alongside Leaflet map tiles to render an insight into how verbalise of the Super Bowl dominated social media on Sunday.

The Tweets are color-coded as well as then that you lot tin run into which squad generated the nigh interest. The map is animated as well as then that you lot tin equally good run into how the teams fared on Twitter throughout the game. Half-time related tweets larn their ain color on the map - which turns the map a dainty shade of royal during the principal event, squeezed inwards betwixt the 2 running exactly about parts.

'S Tiptop Stories Of 2014

This calendar week I've been spending a chip of fourth dimension going through the dorsum catalog of hunting out my Best Maps of 2014. I thought it mightiness hold upward interesting to besides bring a quick await at the almost pop stories on inward 2014.

1. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Game of Thrones Mapped

This yr solely ane dependent plain could musical rhythm out Pokemon together with that was Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Game of Thrones. The huge popularity of George Martin's serial of fantasy novels together with the HBO television receiver serial seems to hold upward reflected inward the popularity for Westeros maps. This piddling round-up of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Game of Thrones related maps got the almost traffic on inward 2014.

2. The Google Maps Pokemon Challenge

Google Map's annual Apr Fool joke never fails inward driving huge traffic to . This yr was no different. The fact that Google this yr made their Apr Fool's map into a fun challenge likely ensured that this seemed to hold upward Google's almost pop Apr Fool's joke yet.

3. Where the World Runs

Strava, Runkeeper together with Nike all created closed to non bad maps this year. This piddling round-up of jogging & cycling heat-maps seemed to evidence pop amongst readers. It besides contained closed to non bad looking maps.

4. The Slow Death of the Google Maps API

Over the in conclusion duet of years I've cash inward one's chips increasingly frustrated past times the real boring stride of evolution of the Google Maps API. In Jan I finally vented my spleen. It seems I'm non the solely ane getting frustrated at the Google Maps API Development team, at to the lowest degree judging past times the traffic that this post service generated.

5. Building the World Cup on Street View

Wow! One of my ain maps made it to the peak 5. I'm non actually certain why. This post service looked at how you lot tin hand the axe hack Google's historic Street View imagery. I approximate it was the purpose of the World Cup inward the championship that generated almost of the traffic.

Unfortunately it looks similar my hack has run across closed to gremlins together with closed to of the historic Street Views seem to bring gone missing (my hack depends on using the PanoID for each Street View - which is ever unsafe because Google oftentimes modify the ID's).

6. The London Bike Video Map

Cylodeo's thought of providing cycling directions amongst video previews is pretty inspired. The launch of novel coverage inward London this yr seemed to attract the attending of readers.

7. The 2014 Tour de French Republic Live Tracking

Real-time maps ever seem to hold upward pop on . It looks similar pairing a real-time map amongst the World's greatest bike race is a guaranteed winner.

I'm stopping there! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 listing of 7 seems a chip arbitrary (a listicle of 10 would likely instruct to a greater extent than traffic) yet these 7 posts got far to a greater extent than traffic than whatsoever other post service on this year. The eight, ix together with 10 posts on my traffic listing got less than 50% of The 2014 Tour de French Republic Live Tracking post. So this seems similar the natural cutting-off point.

I'm non certain I tin hand the axe line whatsoever conclusions from the almost pop stories on . Although it does seem that sports related maps (& cycling inward particular) create generate a lot of traffic.

The Maps Of The Week

Can yous run faster than a tiger? This novel WWF Tiger Challenge map lets yous compare your running information amongst that of a existent tiger.

The Worldwide Wildlife Fund are tracking the daily movements of a tiger inwards Russia. His daily rail is visualized on a Google Map in addition to shows the full distance traveled in addition to his average speed over the shape of the day.

To uncovering out if yous could vanquish the tiger inwards a running race yous tin connect your ain information from a issue of sports tracking apps (including Runkeeper, Nike+, Strava & Map My Run). Once you've added your information yous volition thence uncovering whether yous are equally fast equally a tiger or not. My advice is to cheat in addition to at to the lowest degree utilisation a bike when racing a tiger.


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few weeks agone CartoDB released CartoDB Heat Maps. This novel oestrus maps pick inwards CartoDB leverages the mightiness of the Torque library, which allows developers to efficiently homecoming in addition to issue really large datasets to the client.

CartoDB Heat Maps tin too go used amongst Torque to practise animated oestrus maps. Where this could go item useful is inwards visualizing weather condition information in addition to patterns. For example, check-out this map of historical Hurricane in addition to Tropical Cyclone Track Density. The map animates the rail density of hurricanes in addition to tropical cyclones from 2000-2013, using information from the National Climatic Data Center - NOAA.


Not to go outdone Mapbox has been playing amongst the latest update of Turf.js to practise animated oestrus maps of historical U.S. of A. of America hail data. Turf now includes powerful novel functions to aggregate dense indicate information into grids in addition to oestrus maps. Mapbox has created a demonstration of this novel oestrus map mightiness inwards a weblog post, Animated Heatmaps in addition to Grids amongst Turf.

The map non solely shows an animated oestrus map of historical hail information exactly too allows yous to thought the information equally animated hexbins, triangles, squares in addition to points. The map too includes the pick to thought the animated information inwards 3 unlike speeds.


Recently I've spent a lot of fourth dimension creating vintage map browsers amongst the Leaflet mapping library. I used the San Francisco Vintage Maps.

Well it turns out that Vestiges of New York has created a meliorate collection of New York vintage maps, too using vintage maps from both the NYPL in addition to the David Rumsey collection of historical maps. Their NYC Time Machine is really like to my map, except it has far to a greater extent than vintage maps of New York maps for yous to browse through.

The NYC Time Machine includes 27 vintage maps of New York, ranging inwards appointment from 1660 to 1924. The map includes a non bad pick to chop-chop switch betwixt your chosen vintage map in addition to a modern map, allowing yous to compare the vintage map to the modern streets of New York.

The Maps Of The Week

One of the most interesting uses of Street View imagery since its introduction on Google Maps has been past times MIT. MIT's Place Pulse projection is a crowd-sourced experiment examining people's perceptions of unlike urban environments using their reactions to unlike Street View images.

MIT has straightaway taken the the crowd-sourced security rankings for 3,000 street images from New York as well as Boston as well as created an algorithm to automatically practise a perceived security rating for Street View images. Using the Place Pulse scores MIT assigned attributes to features acquaint inwards the images, associated amongst the image's textures, colors as well as shapes. They as well as then used machine learning to associate icon features amongst scores of perceived safety. MIT tin forcefulness out as well as then role the resulting algorithm to predict the perceived security of a novel image. They tin forcefulness out so laissez passer on whatever Street View icon a 'StreetScore' based on the results of the Place Pulse survey.

StreetScore has straightaway released a set out of maps showing areas of perceived security inwards New York, Boston, Chicago as well as Detroit. Using Street View images of the urban center StreetScore assesses the perceived security of locations throughout the city. Green dots on the map stand upwards for the areas which StreetScore has assigned equally having a high perceived security rating as well as the reddish dots are the locations amongst a depression perceived rating score.


BikeDistrict is a actually cracking trial of providing wheel directions on an interactive map. The application allows you lot to search for as well as acquire cycling directions inwards Milan, Italy.

The application returns 3 suggested routes for whatever directions query: 'cycle', 'direct' as well as 'safe'. The 'cycle' pick returns a route which preferences cycle paths as well as avoids the roughest roads. Milan has a lot of cobbled streets as well as selecting the 'cycle' route volition provide a route which tries to avoid these cycle unfriendly roads. The 'direct' pick returns the most straight route as well as the 'safe' pick volition avoid the busiest streets as well as preference cycle paths.

The staged directions for each route are color coded on the map as well as inwards the step-by-step instructions to highlight the route weather for every phase of the journey. If you lot don't similar a item route inwards the suggested directions you lot tin forcefulness out select it on the map as well as BikeDistrict volition automatically route but about it.

As good equally providing wheel directions BikeDistrict tin forcefulness out demonstrate the place of all wheel stations (with real-time information on the set out of bikes as well as docks available), wheel parking locations, drinking fountains, wheel repair shops as well as biking related events.


In the Great Britain all the unmarried people alive inwards London, all the cyclists alive inwards Cambridge & Oxford as well as all the quondam people alive on the coast.¹

I gleaned these nuggets of information from DataShine Census, a novel census information explorer for the UK. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 census map which I would last quite happy exploring all day. I've seen a lot of maps of census information over the years as well as I must nation that this novel map from DataShine ranks correct upwards in that place amid the best.

DataShine Census maps information from the 2011 Great Britain census. What I actually similar most DataShine is the total of information from the census that has been mapped. You tin forcefulness out explore the information downward to census tract score inwards a set out of unlike demographic categories, including population, housing, education, work as well as beliefs. Each of these categories include a set out of sub-categories, so in that place actually is a lot of information to explore on the map as well as a lot that tin forcefulness out last learned most the Great Britain as well as its people.

Footnote:

¹ All the misreadings of the information hither are the error of the writer as well as non the error of DataShine Census.

The Maps Of The Week

Where Immigrants Live inwards Allegheny County is a scatterplot map of where Pittsburgh's immigrant communities alive inwards the city.

Each dot on the map represents 1 Pittsburgh resident. The dots are colored to demo the expanse of the basis where each citizen was born. The scatterplot points tin hold out filtered yesteryear percentage of beginning to break the areas of the urban kernel favored yesteryear dissimilar immigrant communities. For example, selecting only immigrants of Australian descent reveals that many Australian immigrants convey chosen to alive inwards the expanse to the westward of Bird Park.

The map was created alongside Mapbox too Leaflet.js. The scatterplot layer was created inwards QGIS using census data. If y'all are interested inwards learning to a greater extent than virtually how the map was created Databurgh has published a helpful tutorial on Building a Scatterplot Map inwards QGIS too TileMill.


The Texas Tribune has published a map showing the place of disposal wells where waste-water, oftentimes from hydraulic fracturing sites, is existence disposed of inwards the state. Texas Disposal Wells visualizes the place of 7,000 disposal wells inwards Texas.

The map uses hexagonal binning to highlight the issue of wells inside an area.. You tin zoom inwards on the map to sentiment the place of the private wells.

The Texas Tribune uses the Mapbox platform. Mapbox has written a overnice tutorial on how to purpose hexagonal binning alongside Mapbox created maps. Binning: an Alternative to Pointmaps explains how the complimentary too opened upwardly source QuantumGIS tool tin hold out used to exercise a hexagon density layer, which y'all tin thus overlay on elevation of a Mapbox map.


Newspapers responded to concluding week's European elections alongside a issue of election maps of the results. The map that I was most impressed alongside was yesteryear the Berliner Morgenpost. Europawahl 2014 Alle Stimmen inwards den 529 Berliner Wahlkiezen is a map showing the results of the European elections inwards each of Berlin's 529 election districts.

The map provides a uncomplicated visualization of the overall winners inwards each electoral district inwards Berlin yesteryear shading each district alongside the color of the winning party. If y'all click on an electoral district on the map y'all tin sentiment a breakdown of the results for each political party too y'all tin also compare the 2014 results alongside the votes cast inwards the district inwards the 2009 European Elections.

The visualization also uses an effective polygon knockout lawsuit to highlight Berlin on the map. If y'all desire to recreate this lawsuit alongside Google Maps y'all tin purpose Vasile Cotovanu's polygon masking wizard Geomask. Using Geomask it is possible to exercise a doughnut type polygon which alone shows the map through the hole inwards the doughnut polygon. The lawsuit of using Geomask is to highlight the relevant expanse on the map too mask the balance of the map.

Another effective blueprint chemical cistron of the map is that when y'all click on an electoral district on the map a employment is drawn from the district to the results inwards the map sidebar. It appears that the Berliner Morgenpost had discovered a slap-up method for drawing a polyline from the map to a static chemical cistron exterior the map.