New The Non-Google Maps Of The Week

Twitter has released a serial of point maps showing geo-tagged Tweets since 2009. The serial includes maps of America, Europe in addition to a release of worldwide cites.

You tin read virtually the visualisations on the Twitter Blog in addition to persuasion all the maps on Flickr.

The Washington Post's Sea of Steel is a mapped visualisation of guns recovered inward the District in addition to Prince George's County.

Users tin click on whatever signal on the map to persuasion a detailed breakdown of the guns recovered inside one-half a mile of the chosen location. The map was created using MapBox. If you lot similar the map in addition to thence read this Behind the Scenes - Making the Heatmap post.

Moore, Oklahoma Before in addition to After is an Esri Map that compares aerial views of Moore earlier in addition to later the tornado on May 20th.

The map uses a uncomplicated swipe tool that allows the user to compare the earlier in addition to later aerial imagery.

PlanetMaker is a nifty application that allows you lot to create in addition to tweak your ain planet using icon textures in addition to lighting. It is nifty fun beingness able to add together Saturn's rings to public or adding clouds to Mars.