There were ii existent stand-out maps this week, NASA's 3d map of the Vesta asteroid and Refugee Republic's map of Domiz Refugee Camp.
Domiz Refugee Camp inward Iraqi Kurdistan was established inward Apr 2012 to host Syrian Kurds. The military camp was originally built to identify 38,135 people. It is currently abode to 57,953 refugees. As the set out of refugees has grown the military camp has gradually transformed from a temporary refuge into a makeshift town,
Refugee Republic has created an online documentary close the camp, using the Leaflet.js mapping platform to plough a mitt drawn map into a fully interactive map. You tin cease click on the colored roads together with arrows on the map to acquire to a greater extent than close life inward Domiz Camp. The tour includes videos of the camp, information on how the military camp together with shelters were constructed together with the stories of roughly of the refugees forthwith living inward Domiz Camp.
In 2011 the DAWN spacecraft visited Vesta to collect information close this of import asteroid. You tin cease forthwith explore Vesta yourself using NASA's Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta.
Vesta is 1 of the largest asteroids inward the asteroid belt, amongst a hateful diameter of 525 kilometres. The Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta allows you lot to thought the asteroid equally a 2nd or 3d map. The map itself seems to combine an Esri map amongst a Cesium WebGL globe.
The 3d map includes a set out of information overlays which supply unlike views of the mineral make-up of Vesta. The 2nd map thought includes a global (equirectangular) thought of Vesta, a due north pole thought together with a due south pole view. It also includes a set out of tools which allow you lot to mensurate distance on Vesta together with to thought altitude profiles (especially handy if you lot desire to visualize the depth of Vesta's craters).
One of the joys of maps is that they allow you lot to explore places that you lot powerfulness never see inward real-life. Having already explored an asteroid together with a refugee military camp why non also get got a tour of Robben Island. Google has released Street View imagery for Robben Island inward South Africa.
Robben Island is most famous equally the prison theatre where Nelson Mandela was held for xviii of the 27 years he served behind bars. The best agency to explore the novel Street View imagery is on the Robben Island Museum page on Google's Cultural Institute website. The Robben Island Museum entry includes a guided tour of the prison theatre past times onetime political prisoners. The Robben Island Prison Tour is a guided tour of the prison theatre using the novel Google Maps Street View imagery together with narration from onetime political prisoner, Vusumsi Mcongo.
The tour includes the thought prisoners would get got on arriving at the island, a thought from within a guard tower, the infirmary ward, the practise yard together with Nelson Mandela's ain 2m x 2m cell. Most of these Street View scenes are accompanied past times videos inward which Vusumsi Mcongo explains what life was similar equally a prisoner on Robben Island.
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