New The Funniest Maps Of The Twelvemonth (2014)

Springfield is a gloriously detailed map of the most famous of town inward America. From the world's source e'er Kwik-E-Mart to Springfield Elementary School, this Spingfield map has it all. You tin fifty-fifty purpose the map to aspect upwards the address of private families, for illustration the Simpsons occupation solid unit of measurement at 742 Evergreen Terrace.

Even though this is undoubtedly the best Simpsons map e'er - I withal desire more. Where is the Springfield Street View (I bet fifty-fifty Shelbyville has Street View past times now)? I equally good desire driving directions. I require to know the quickest agency to the Kwik-E-Mart as well as to the Springfield Nuclear Power  Plant (preferably amongst real-time traffic conditions).

Another affair missing from the map is transit directions. It would live handy to know which double-decker I require to grab to acquire to Moe's Tavern. However, nit-picking aside, this is withal the best Springfield map I've e'er seen. It's quite perchance the best map ever.


Alternate history novels stimulate got been real pop over the lastly few years. So for certain at that topographic point must live a marketplace for alternate history maps. Newcastle Brown Ale manifestly retrieve so.

Last year, for Independence Day, the brewer released an alternate history map of the United States. If We Won is a vivid map of the USA showing how the province powerfulness stimulate got looked if the American War of Independence had been won past times Great Britain.

Enter whatever town or urban meat into the map as well as yous tin give away what the location would live named if the Americans hadn't been so unhappy virtually paying their taxes. For illustration El Paso becomes Ye Olde Paso, Charlotte becomes North Charlottesvilleford as well as San Francisco becomes Wolverhampton.


One of the earliest pop uses of the Google Maps API was Gawker Stalker. The immediately defunct Gawker Stalker allowed yous to rail the movements of your favorite celebrities cheers to the detailed stalking carried out past times Gawker as well as their readers.

If at that topographic point is ane affair to a greater extent than pop than celebrities on the mesh so that must live pictures of cats. It is thence surprising that nosotros stimulate got had to hold off 7 years for someone to finally acquire only about to releasing I Know Where Your Cat Lives.

I Know Where Your Cat Lives displays pictures of cats on a Google Map. The pictures of the cats come upwards from pop photograph sharing websites as well as the locations are based on the information hidden inward truthful cat photograph metadata.  I'm guessing that the map is partly intended equally a alarm virtually sharing your personal information online (or maybe its only a alarm virtually sharing your cat's personal information online).


MTA.me Conductor has turned Massimo Vignelli's 1972 New York underground map into a real-time string instrument. The map visualizes inward real-time trains moving on the MTA underground network as well as plays a banker's complaint every fourth dimension a underground prepare crosses the rail of some other train.

Every infinitesimal the application checks for novel trains launched from their goal stations. The trains are so animated along the underground delineate amongst their speed prepare past times the MTA schedule. When ane prepare crosses the rail of some other prepare a unmarried banker's complaint is played.

Fire-up the map as well as yous tin only sit down dorsum as well as head to a New York underground symphony beingness composed as well as played inward real-time. You tin fifty-fifty bring together inward the composition past times plucking the strings of the trains of the New York subway.


If you've e'er wondered how Mario as well as Luigi acquire by to navigate so effortlessly only about the Mushroom Kingdom as well as Dinosaur Land so yous require to cheque out this Super Mario map from Duncan Graham. This interactive map reimagines the earth equally an 8-bit map inward the mode of Nintendo's classic game, consummate amongst golden coins as well as mushrooms.

Accompanying the map is a nifty 'how-to' guide on how the map was created with Mapbox Studio. It's worth reading the article if yous desire to acquire virtually importing terra firma or H2O source files into Mapbox Studio, how to add together custom elements to your map as well as how to club layers.


Apparently people defecating on the streets is a affair inward San Francisco. At to the lowest degree it is a big plenty occupation for Jennifer Wong to retrieve it warrants its ain interactive map. Obviously this seems to live a serious outcome for San Francisco but at that topographic point is an chemical constituent of sense of humor inward the presentation of this map.

Jennifer has used San Francisco Department of Public Works information of sidewalk cleanings for 'human waste materials or urine' to create the (Human) Wasteland map. The map makes purpose of the Google Maps Styled Maps characteristic to supply a context-appropriate colored base of operations map. The same 'appropriate' colors are used inward the estrus map layer. If yous desire yous tin filter the crap on the map past times calendar month as well as search the map past times address.


I actually exercise stimulate got the mental historic catamenia of a 5 yr old. There is no other excuse for the enjoyment I got from creating this Talking Rude Map.

The map animates through some of the to a greater extent than NSFW place-names only about the earth as well as reads the names out loud. I don't retrieve that this map volition run amongst whatever other browser but Chrome. If yous don't purpose Chrome don't blame me if yous don't acquire past times the F#cking source page.


It exclusively takes ane missive of the alphabet to decease viral. Google Naps became a real pop map for a brief catamenia inward 2014. H5N1 map of expert places to stimulate got 40 winks could on it ain essay relatively pop but my gauge is that its brief viral status sprang from its punning name.

I suspect that correct immediately map developers only about the earth are working on other puns on the words 'Google Maps'. This yr I await to live reviewing a map of rugs only about the earth (Google Mats),  a map of drinking fountains (Google Taps) as well as a map of world rest-rooms (I travel out that ane to your imagination).

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