New The Miniature Maps Of The Week


This calendar week a couplet of really interesting Google Street View projects were released. Jumeirah Inside is an incredibly good designed Street View tour of the Burj Al Arab Hotel inwards Dubai. The most impressive appear of this tour is the seamless integration of video on superlative of Street View's 360 grade panoramic imagery.

If you lot choose the Street View of the hotel's foyer you lot tin persuasion the Cascade Waterfall inwards action. There are 3 buttons beneath the waterfall which genuinely allow you lot to persuasion the waterfall's dissimilar outpouring shows inwards video on superlative of Street View. Select i of the numbers too you lot tin persuasion the selected video of the outpouring on superlative of the Street View image.

The other Street View projection released this calendar week involves panoramic imagery of the world's largest model railway, Miniatur Wunderland inwards Hamburg, Germany.
To capture panoramic imagery of this miniature basis Google worked amongst Ubilabs to laid upward minuscule Street View cameras mounted on tiny vehicles. You tin explore this novel miniature Street View projection on Google Maps. However the best house to persuasion these novel tiny Street View scenes is on this dedicated Miniatur Wunderland Street View website.


This calendar week I besides genuinely liked the NYC Felonies Map, inwards which the New York skyline is dominated past times a serial of skyscrapers of crime.

The NYC Felonies Map shows the rates of the 7 major felonies for each metropolis block inwards New York City. The felonies are shown at the nub of each street segment past times stacking map markers for each felony. The taller the stack the to a greater extent than the crime. Zoom inwards on the map to persuasion each stack inwards to a greater extent than detail.


In the 1980's painting demo WarGames a high schoolhouse educatee hacks into a supercomputer too nearly starts a total scale global nuclear war. The reckoner is called the War Operation Plan Response too inwards the cinema NORAD bring a huge wall-sized dashboard to interface amongst the computer.

Alan Walker, Jeffrey Shaffer, Anya A'Hearn too Chris DeMartini bring collaborated to recreate the War Operations Plan Response dashboard, consummate amongst a faithful rendering of the WarGames map (animated nuclear weapons et al). You tin read to a greater extent than almost how they managed to recreate the WOPR dashboard inwards Tableau inwards this Re-creating WarGames amongst Tableau too Mapbox weblog post.

You tin besides persuasion the U.S. WOPR dashboard too Russia's ain version of a super nation of war machine computer. The map used inwards both of these WarGames dashboards was created past times Anya A’Hearn inwards Mapbox Studio. You tin persuasion the WarGames Map full-screen here. You tin besides depository fiscal establishment jibe out the WarGames map amongst a polar projection.
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