My favorite interactive map this calendar week was Esri's A Hillshade Everyone Can Use. Esri Story Maps tin move a lilliputian formulaic in addition to therefore they don't characteristic really ofttimes inwards my weekly round-ups. However this introduction to hill-shade maps in addition to to Esri's own next generation hillshade layer is beautifully pose together.
The map compares Esri's novel multi-directional hillshading to traditional hillshading (swipe left & correct on the map to compare former amongst new). It every bit good provides roughly bully examples of how a hillshade layer tin render a clearer context to topographical map features in addition to other mapped data. In detail in that location is a bully instance map showing how a hillshade layer reveals roughly of the effects the landscape tin cause got on air current turbine placement.
This calendar week I actually every bit good liked NYPL Lab's Street View, Then & Now: New York City's Fifth Avenue. This lilliputian application allows y'all to cause got a virtual stroll downward Fifth Avenue inwards Street View piece comparison today's New York to photos taken at the starting fourth dimension of the Twentieth Century.
The application was designed to promote the New York Public Library's unloose of to a greater extent than than 180,000 items into the populace domain inwards its Digital Collections. The items include maps, photographs, letters, posters, manuscripts, sail music, drawings in addition to other texts, all of which y'all tin download inwards high-resolution in addition to without restriction from the Digital Collections website.
Maps made amongst Google Fusion Tables every bit good don't ofttimes operate into into the Maps of the Week post. I'll brand an exception this calendar week for CityMetric's map of U.K. machine ownership. Mapping census information doesn't ever pay off but this CityMetric map clearly shows the geography of machine ownership inwards England & Wales.
The CityMetric map of machine ownership shows that inwards towns in addition to cities across England & Wales many people cause got decided to alive without a car. If y'all await at whatsoever U.K. metropolis on the map (only England & Wales is covered) y'all volition run into that the lowest percent of machine ownership is inwards inner metropolis neighborhoods. As y'all movement out, into the metropolis suburbs, machine ownership grows. Once y'all leave of absence into the rural areas therefore close every solid owns a car,
Buat lebih berguna, kongsi:
