New The Maps Of The Week

This calendar week I was impressed amongst a publish of applications that brand creative usage of Google Maps Street View. The Keyhole Conundrum and A Town Called Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Paradise are both impressive games as well as the Point & Click Street View Browser is an interesting experiment inwards creating a novel means to navigate Google Maps Street View. However my favorite Street View application this calendar week was the frightening World Under Water.

Do yous desire to encounter what your identify volition hold off similar in ane lawsuit global warming causes an inevitable ascent inwards ocean levels? Just type inwards your address into World Under Water as well as yous can, cheers to the glory of Street View.

World Under Water is a rattling powerful drive from Carbon Story which uses Google's panoramic imagery to plough over yous a glimpse of your dwelling identify nether water. There are a publish of Google Maps that tin plough over yous a map persuasion of rising ocean levels. However World Under Water has a far greater visual impact, only because yous tin genuinely receive got a glimpse of your ain dwelling identify sinking nether the rising seas on Street View.


One of my favorite maps of the weeks is tracking outbreaks of MERS. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory disease caused yesteryear a coronavirus called MERS-CoV. The infection tin receive severe shrewd respiratory illness, fever as well as shortness of breath. Currently the infection has a mortality charge per unit of measurement of approximately 27%.

MERS has as well as therefore far largely been confined to the Arabian Peninsula but a few cases receive got besides been reported inwards Europe as well as concluding calendar week the get-go illustration was reported inwards the United States. The MERS Corona Map is tracking occurrences of the infection approximately the world.

The map uses information from the World Health Organization as well as wellness ministries to rail the spread of the infection. Colored round down map markers demonstrate the publish of people infected inwards cities. You tin click on the markers to persuasion the full publish of infections as well as the publish of deaths caused yesteryear the virus.

The map besides allows yous to filter the map to demonstrate the latest cities to study infections or to persuasion the cities that receive got reported the close infections.


One of the close viewed maps on Google this calendar week was this animated map the increase of Ikea, showing the opening of Ikea stores approximately the Blue Planet over the concluding l years.

The map of Ikea Store Openings has an ingenious scroll bar command which I like. Essentially Ikea Store Openings is an animated time-line as well as mapped visualization of the increase of Ikea over time. As yous scroll downwardly the page the time-line moves as well as the corresponding shop openings seem on the map.

The map includes a clever auto-scrolling function. Click the play push as well as yous tin plough over your mouse finger a remainder every bit the time-line automatically scrolls downwardly as well as the stores magically seem on the map.

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