New The Google Maps Of The Week

This calendar week I was item impressed alongside 2 Google Maps experiments. One designed to rail grizzly bears in addition to the other to predict the weather condition along a route.


The Foothills Research Institute has developed a swell application to visualise GPS tracks alongside Google Maps. The application was developed inward fellowship to hold upward able to visualise the movements in addition to environments of 2 GPS-collared grizzly bears.

The application uses an ArcGIS Python script tool to parse raw GPS text files into a listing of coordinates in addition to the novel Google Maps API Symbols in addition to HeatMap layer to animate in addition to visualise the GPS information on a Google Map.

The Foothills Research Institute can't disclose the existent lay of the bears thus they convey created a prissy demo of the application using imitation randomised information for 2 dissimilar bears. The Fake Bear Tracker Map uses an animated symbol for each logged place and, every bit the application progresses, uses a estrus map layer to display the areas visited yesteryear each bear.

The final result is a rattling effective visualisation of the bears' movements in addition to of their territorial range. 


Dark Sky is an app for the iPad in addition to iPhone that predicts the weather condition for your place to the minute. For illustration a Dark Sky prediction mightiness tell that it volition start raining inward 3 minutes in addition to and thus goal raining inward one-half an hour.

Predicting the weather condition to such a fine score agency that Dark Sky is a swell resources for showing weather condition along a route. The Dark Sky: Weather Along a Traffic Route map does just that. The app lets users asking directions in addition to and thus displays the road on a Google Map.

The kickoff 60-minutes of the trip also displays a forecast from Dark Sky, showing where (and how hard) you’ll teach rained on if yous left correct now. The application is simply a demo showcasing how the DarkSky API could hold upward combined alongside the Google Maps API in addition to Dark Sky warn that,


 "it lacks features, is non robust, in addition to mightiness deport erratically. Please produce non rely on it!"

One characteristic that is missing is the powerfulness to banking firm tally the weather condition for a specific time. However the map could nevertheless hold upward useful if yous are heading out for a walk in addition to yous desire to know if it is going to pelting whatever fourth dimension soon.
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