New The Maps Of The Week

Forecast.io has created a beautiful heatmap of planet basis too MapBox has speedily position together an animated version on the map. The Forecast.io Temperature Map animates through global temperatures recorded on August 10, 2013.

The map uses the novel Quicklsilver map from Forecast.io. Project Quicksilver is a high resolution real-time map of global temperature, that updates every hour. GeoTIFF images of the map tin too last downloaded from Forecast.io.

One real noticeable increase surface area inward interactive visualizations over the concluding few months has been the abrupt tendency inward maps that exhibit the historic menses of buildings.

CitySDK has created a map that shows the historic menses of a staggering 9,866,539 buildings inward the Netherlands. Buildings on the map, throughout the country, are colored on the map past times their historic menses of construction. You tin fifty-fifty click on whatever of the nigh ten i grand one thousand buildings to sentiment the building's exact twelvemonth of construction.

Germany's national railway operator DB Bahn has released a alive Google Map showing the place of all the transit network's trains inward real-time.

The DB Bahn Live Map animates all the trains' markers to exhibit the electrical flow seat of the trains inward nigh real-time. The positions of the trains on the map are calculated from the drive-in or transcend reports at stations too from the latest prepare messages.

Users tin click on private trains on the map to sentiment what fourth dimension the prepare left its concluding station too when it is expected to become far at the side past times side station.