New Maps Of The Week


Today is Norway's Constitution Day. So elevation billing has to acquire to Verdens Gang's A Game of Norway. In 2014, to grade the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Norwegian constitution, the paper released this floor map to attention say the history behind the signing of the constitution.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Game of Kingdom of Norway is a beautifully designed floor map exploring in addition to explaining the historical events which eventually led to the signing of the Norwegian Constitution on May 17th 1814. The map animations in addition to narrative elements are made possible past times using skrollr, a parallax scrolling JavaScript library. Skrollr allows y'all to animate whatever CSS belongings of whatever chemical cistron based on the horizontal scrollbar position. Using skrollr Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Game of Kingdom of Norway is able to displace some the background map picture in addition to animate the movements of the ships, troops in addition to other images on the map equally the user scrolls downwards the page.


Mapzen has launched a complimentary Vector Tile Service to complement their Tangram WebGL map renderer. The combination of vector tiles in addition to Tangram allows Mapzen to homecoming map tiles inwards real-time inwards the browser.

This agency that the map tiles tin give the axe live really dynamic. Check out some of the instance maps on the Tangram page. The Day / Night Map shows how colors in addition to edifice footprints tin give the axe live updated inwards real-time inwards the browser. The Tron Map shows how y'all tin give the axe apply animation to the map tiles (in this instance to do the number of moving vehicles on roads in addition to streets).

My favorite fashion inwards the examples is this Cross Hatch map. I'm also rather fond of the Lego Style, made out of colored plastic brick textures. When panning some on these maps notice how the perspective on the 3d buildings alter depending on your indicate of view.


The Web Mercator projection is non really practiced when it comes to providing accurate maps of the Arctic in addition to Antarctic. Fortunately, however, at that spot is instantly some other solution for anyone who wants to do interactive maps of the Arctic. Arctic Web Map is a new Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server, in addition to a Leaflet-based customer library.

There are 6 Arctic projections available, each using a Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area (LAEA) stance of the North Pole region. The Arctic Web Map tiles are compatible amongst Leaflet maps, when used amongst the Proj4JS in addition to Proj4Leaflet libraries. The map tiles are available to purpose complimentary of accuse for low-traffic users. If y'all necessitate high-traffic purpose in addition to hence y'all should contact Arctic Web Map. 


Streets of London is a map of the City of London which allows y'all to discovery how private London roads originally got their names. Click on a highlighted route on the map in addition to y'all tin give the axe honour out why the selected route is called what it is in addition to where its mention originally came from.

There are some interesting themes inwards the names of London's streets. You tin give the axe direct from these themes using the map bill of fare inwards the elevation right-hand corner of the map. When y'all plough some of the categories dorsum on (after deselecting) y'all tin give the axe larn a piffling to a greater extent than most the history behind the selected category.
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