New Maps Of The Week

This calendar month Tommy Caldwell in addition to Kevin Jorgeson became the kickoff climbers to free-climb the 3,000-foot Dawn Wall of El Capitan. The New York Time's The Dawn Wall interactive is an impressive 3d model of their route upward the mountain, created past times Battista Matasci of the University of Lausanne..

Open The Dawn Wall inwards a WebGL enabled browser in addition to yous tin follow Caldwell in addition to Jorgeson's climb on an interactive 3d model of the Dawn Wall. As yous scroll downwards the interactive the model rotates in addition to zooms amongst impressive speed. Photos in addition to data almost the climb tin live viewed equally yous progress along the climbers' route.

Mapbox has released a gorgeous map of all the roads inwards Japan. OpenStreetMap inwards Japan entirely shows Japan's roads in addition to streets in addition to omits all over map features.

The roads on the map are colored past times the final appointment that they were edited on OpenStreetMap. Roads colored blueish haven't been edited since 2007. The xanthous roads convey been edited inwards the past times year. The Mapbox post on the map includes a link to a full-screen map. The map embedded inwards the post nevertheless includes a push to speedily toggle to stance close-ups of major cities on the map.

Sailing Seas of Plastic is an interactive mapped visualization of the concentration of plastic inwards the world's oceans. According to the map at that spot are 5,250 billion pieces of plastic, amongst a combined weight of 268,940 tonnes, adrift on the seas of the world.

This dot density map shows the estimated concentration of floating plastic inwards the oceans. Each dot on the map represents twenty kg of floating plastic. The estimations are based on the results of 24 survey expeditions (2007-2013) in addition to on air current in addition to body of body of water drift models.

You tin equally good overlay the sailing tracks of the 24 survey expeditions on pinnacle of the dot map.