New Satellite Masking


In responding to yesterday's tragic bomb attacks inward Brussels the New York Times together with the Washington Post convey both posted satellite maps of to a greater extent than or less of the locations which were most affected yesteryear the terrorist attacks.

Both newspapers convey opted to practise static maps from satellite images of the city. They convey also both used masking effects to highlight locations on the map. On the satellite images all areas, apart from the selected buildings, are masked - hence that the featured buildings clearly stand upwards out on the maps.


It is possible to practise the same masking consequence amongst interactive maps. For event you lot could role Vasile Cotovanu's polygon masking wizard Geomask to practise a like map amongst the Google Maps API. Using Geomask it took me nigh 5 minutes to create an event map highlighting the European Commission Headquarters inward Brussels.

This polygon masking consequence industrial plant specially good inward Brussels because the urban amount has Google's 'birds eye' sentiment aerial imagery, which provides an oblique sentiment of buildings that you lot tin flame together with then highlight on a map.

You tin flame practise a like consequence amongst Mapbox by inverting a polygon shape. If you lot prefer Leaflet maps you lot tin flame role the leaflet.maskcanvas plug-in.
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