New The Maps Of The Week


Can you lot run faster than a tiger? This novel WWF Tiger Challenge map lets you lot compare your running information alongside that of a existent tiger.

The Worldwide Wildlife Fund are tracking the daily movements of a tiger inwards Russia. His daily rail is visualized on a Google Map together with shows the full distance traveled together with his average speed over the shape of the day.

To detect out if you lot could crunch the tiger inwards a running race you lot tin transportation away connect your ain information from a issue of sports tracking apps (including Runkeeper, Nike+, Strava & Map My Run). Once you've added your information you lot volition thence discovery whether you lot are equally fast equally a tiger or not. My advice is to cheat together with at to the lowest degree occupation a bike when racing a tiger.


H5N1 few weeks agone CartoDB released CartoDB Heat Maps. This novel rut maps option inwards CartoDB leverages the mightiness of the Torque library, which allows developers to efficiently homecoming together with discover real large datasets to the client.

CartoDB Heat Maps tin transportation away likewise last used alongside Torque to exercise animated rut maps. Where this could last item useful is inwards visualizing conditions information together with patterns. For example, check-out this map of historical Hurricane together with Tropical Cyclone Track Density. The map animates the rail density of hurricanes together with tropical cyclones from 2000-2013, using information from the National Climatic Data Center - NOAA.


Not to last outdone Mapbox has been playing alongside the latest update of Turf.js to exercise animated rut maps of historical USA hail data. Turf now includes powerful novel functions to aggregate dense signal information into grids together with rut maps. Mapbox has created a demonstration of this novel rut map mightiness inwards a weblog post, Animated Heatmaps together with Grids alongside Turf.

The map non solely shows an animated rut map of historical hail information simply likewise allows you lot to persuasion the information equally animated hexbins, triangles, squares together with points. The map likewise includes the option to persuasion the animated information inwards 3 unlike speeds.


Recently I've spent a lot of fourth dimension creating vintage map browsers alongside the Leaflet mapping library. I used the San Francisco Vintage Maps.

Well it turns out that Vestiges of New York has created a meliorate collection of New York vintage maps, likewise using vintage maps from both the NYPL together with the David Rumsey collection of historical maps. Their NYC Time Machine is real similar to my map, except it has far to a greater extent than vintage maps of New York maps for you lot to browse through.

The NYC Time Machine includes 27 vintage maps of New York, ranging inwards appointment from 1660 to 1924. The map includes a keen option to speedily switch betwixt your chosen vintage map together with a modern map, allowing you lot to compare the vintage map to the modern streets of New York.
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