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I intend this is the starting fourth dimension but non-English map to characteristic inward a Google Maps of the Week post.

Die Seidenstrasse is an interactive tour of the Silk Road using Google Maps satellite imagery, photos as well as audio. The tour was created yesteryear Swiss broadcasters SRF to accompany a televised documentary serial that is currently airing on Fri nights inward Switzerland.

The tour animates along the Silk Road from Venice to China as well as includes an well commentary alongside accompanying music, photos as well as 360 marking panoramas of interesting locations along the route. The tour as well as interactive features are all inward German.

Interactieve Kaarten, from the Planning Department of the City of Amsterdam, makes it to the best maps of the calendar week non for 1 item map but for their extensive GIS collection of maps of the city.

The maps embrace a make of subjects that volition live on of involvement to local citizens, including housing, dark-green spaces, climate as well as edifice use. For example the Woningwaarde Map plots the terms of housing inward the city. Using a oestrus map overlay this map shows the average terms of housing throughout the city.

Another interesting map is the Niet-Woonfuncties Map which shows the designing of all non-residential properties inward the city. On the map each non-residential holding is shaded to demo whether the holding is used for business, retail, leisure etc.