New A Novel Type Of Tourist Map

Taxi Stockholm has created a novel variety of tourist map. H5N1 map which uses information from millions of taxi trips taken inward Stockholm to position the city's favorite destinations.

Taxi Trails has taken the information from all of Stockholm's GPS enabled cabs as well as used the Google Maps API to practice 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 too live on useful for tourists visiting the city.

The persuasion of visualizing taxi destinations on a map isn't new. For event we've latterly seen a position out of mapped visualizations of New York taxi data. For example, Hubcab is is a dandy map of New York taxi data, visualizing the destinations as well as pick-up points of 170 1000000 taxi trips.

Taxi Stockholm's differs from Hubcab withal inward that it uses the taxi information equally a starting betoken to discovery the secrets of the city. If yous are visiting Stockholm for the rootage fourth dimension yous tin purpose the map to detect pop hot-spots inward the city.

For example, if yous are looking for somewhere to become on a Sat night, yous tin refine the map to exhibit the nigh pop destinations for Stockholm cabs inward the even out at the weekend. You tin as well as thence zoom inward on a hot-spot on the map as well as select the 'Explore this area' option. This volition as well as thence driblet markers on the map showing yous bars as well as restaurants inward the area. You tin fifty-fifty range out the expanse for yourself using Street View to run into if hold back likes a expert house to visit.

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