Our Tam is an amazing WebGL powered 3d map of Mount Tamalpais inwards Marin County, California. Using the map you lot tin rotate closed to the mount too zoom inwards too out on features amongst incredible speed. If you lot persuasion the site inwards a non-WebGL browser the map degrades gracefully to a 2d Google Map.
The map features a give away of markers which allow you lot to explore stories, photos too videos of the mount left yesteryear other users. You tin add together your ain stories, photos or videos well-nigh Mount Tamalpais yesteryear clicking on the map too selecting the 'Leave s Story' button.
A Month of Lightning is an interactive map of all 80,305,421 lightning strikes that occurred across the globe inwards May 2013.
Mapping eighty i 1000 one thousand information points on a digital map is non an slowly task. However when Mapbox's Eric Fischer created the Most Detailed Tweet Map Ever he also built & released an opened upward sourced tool called Tippecanoe for making vector tiles from large information sets.
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Rousseau was able to purpose Tippecanoe to procedure the May 2013 lightning information from Weather Decision Technologies. The lawsuit is this impressive Mapbox map which allows you lot to persuasion over eighty i 1000 one thousand global lightning strikes from but i month. You tin read to a greater extent than well-nigh how the map was made inwards Jordan's weblog post, decorate your household on Street View. By far the most beautiful is Sakura.
Sakura allows you lot to visualize how your household would await if you lot could carry it to Nippon inwards the springtime, but at the 2nd when the cherry blossom is inwards amount bloom. If you lot convey a WebGL capable browser you lot tin part your place amongst Sakura too encounter a Street View of your ain abode covered inwards pinkish cherry blossom.
If you're a fan of Street View hence you lot should also convey a await at Teleporter, a fun application which volition carry you lot to random locations closed to the footing on Google Maps Street View.
This calendar week I was also real impressed amongst 2 map tools. Street Patterns is an ingenious tool for creating SVG images from OpenStreetMap data. In truth Street Patterns is truly a real detailed tutorial well-nigh how you lot tin purpose Overpass and Turf to railroad train your ain SVG map graphics. However the tutorial includes a give away of map wizards which automate every phase of the process.
Turf,jsParty consists of 2 primary sections, an editor too a Leaflet map. The editor allows you lot to select from a give away of mutual turf operations. You tin edit too play closed to amongst the examples inwards the editor too persuasion your edits straight on the Leaflet map. Of course of report you lot don't convey to purpose the provided examples too tin assay your ain turf operations yesteryear entering them straight into the editor.
