New The Maps Of The Week
The big interactive mapping word this calendar week was the free of the Mapbox GL API. Mapbox GL has some really powerful options for dynamic styling together with map interactivity on the client-side. I'm certain that inward the close time to come nosotros volition run into lots of Maps of the Week built on elevation of Mapbox GL.
Mapbox has begun to add together some instance maps to the API documentation. Among the close interesting of these maps is this satellite sentiment map featuring video playback on a map.
While Mapbox GL may betoken to the time to come of interactive mapping CartoDB's Torque library is behind some of the impressive maps of the present. Torque powered maps cause got regularly featured inward Google Maps of the Week posts over the final 2 years. Of slow in that place has been likewise many Twitter information based maps created amongst Torque for my liking.
That's why I was pleased to run into 3 Torque powered maps this calendar week that used other, to a greater extent than interesting, data. Global Terrorism, 2013 was belike the close interesting of these 3 maps. This map uses Torque together with CartoDB's Odyssey.js library to animate a year's worth of terrorist attacks some the world.
The other 2 maps were How INXS Conquered the World, a Torque powered Leaflet map which plots the touring schedule of the Australian band, together with a serial of animated maps of New York's Citibike data.
Another map which impressed me this calendar week was from Taxi Stockholm. This heat-map of a year's worth of taxi trip information is combined amongst Google's Places library to render an interesting insight into the city's hot-spots.
Taxi Trails has taken the information from all of Stockholm's GPS enabled cabs together with used the Google Maps API to practise a heat-map of taxi destinations inward the Swedish capital. Taxi Stockholm believe that this heat-map is non exclusively a beautiful information visualization only it tin move also travel useful for tourists visiting the city.
If you lot are visiting Stockholm for the starting fourth dimension time you lot tin move purpose the map to discovery pop hot-spots inward the city. For example, if you lot are looking for somewhere to larn on a Sat night, you lot tin move refine the map to exhibit the close pop destinations for Stockholm cabs inward the eve on a Sat nighttime together with and thus purpose the 'Explore this area' selection to discovery bars together with restaurants nearby.
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