New The Maps Of The Week

The Guardian's In Flight – Interactive Map is an amazing mapped presentation looking at the history of commercial air travel.

The interactive even features an animated map visualizing 24 hours of bird flights approximately the basis together with a narrated documentary looking at the nativity of commercial flights, the evolution of international air go together with a await at the potential futurity for the industry.

The In Flight map was developed for The Guardian past times Kiln, a data visualization start-up based inward London.


Skoda has used the popular Hyperlapse Street View animation tool to exercise a cool promotional website for the Rapid Spaceback.

The Rapid Spaceback website lets y'all sentiment a lay out of animated journeys on Google Maps Street View. To spice upwards the activity the site has added a lay out of filters that y'all tin post away apply to the animated route, including a kaleidoscope or mirror view. You tin post away also lead from a lay out of dissimilar soundtracks to accompany your drive.

The site includes a lay out of prepared routes from famous locations approximately the world. You tin post away also exercise your ain road past times selecting a starting quest together with a goal on a Google Map.


From the insect chorus of the Kalimantan to the crooning baritone vocal of an Atlantic humpback whale, this map wants to serenade y'all alongside the sounds of nature. The Nature Soundmap is a map featuring the sounds of nature captured past times professional person nature recordists approximately the world.

Maps convey ever been a fascinating agency to explore the globe. Satellite imagery together with Street View imagery convey made armchair exploring fifty-fifty to a greater extent than immersive. Add inward the sounds of the monsoon inward Kalimantan together with the soundscape of the Brazilian rain-forest together with y'all tin post away near imagine that y'all actually convey been transported to the other side of the world.

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