New The Maps Of The Week
This calendar week ProPublica released an impressive mapped visualization of the termination of climate modify together with crude & gas exploration inward the position down of Louisiana.
Southern Louisiana is losing sixteen foursquare miles a twelvemonth to the Gulf of Mexico. At the center of ProPublica's map, Losing Ground, is a serial of timeline visualizations of historical aerial imagery. These timelines allow you lot to reveal the loss of position down inward Louisiana past times comparison acquaint solar daytime aerial imagery alongside aerial imagery going dorsum to the 1930's.
Accompanying the aerial imagery are a serial of interviews of people living together with working inward the affected areas. These interviews are supported past times well files together with photos. In combination the audio, photos, interviews together with aerial imagery of Louisiana's position down loss furnish a powerful draw concern human relationship of this ongoing environmental disaster.
Last twelvemonth Dave MacLean, from the GIS Faculty at the Centre of Geographic Sciences of the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), released a map of photos taken from the International Space Station.
Our World from the ISS is an ESRI map of photos, taken from the ISS posted past times @Cmdr_Hadfield together with @AstroMarshburn on Twitter. The map allows you lot to persuasion thumbnails of roughly really amazing photos of world taken from the ISS.
Dave MacLean has at i time released a novel map roofing photos from the ISS Missions twoscore together with 41. All the photos are mapped to the locations shown inward the views of the world depicted. The map may non interruption whatsoever novel Earth inward the world of interactive cartography only it definitely wins the weekly abide by for the around shared map on social media.
This calendar week I was also quite impressed past times the Street View treasure hunt game The Day Google Street View Stood Still.
This Street View game uses the Web Audio API to furnish well clues to assistance you lot reveal a release of hidden items. In the game you lot are teleported to a Street View place somewhere inward the world. The object of the game is to follow the well clues to reveal objects nearby. The game is a variety of 'hot or cold' searching game, every bit you lot instruct closer to the right finish the well clues instruct louder. If you lot move inward the incorrect direction together with thus the sounds becomes quieter.
The Day Google Street View Stood Still has a release of levels. When you lot complete a score you lot are told how many steps you lot guide maintain taken together with how long it took you lot to achieve the right destination. If you lot brand i of the superlative x quickest times you lot tin fifty-fifty add together your refer to the high-score table.
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