New Maps Of The Week


There convey been a lot of maps released this calendar month commemorating the 25th anniversary of the autumn of the Berlin Wall. Among my favorites was this map from Castilian radio & television set broadcaster RTVE. The map investigates the 138 victims who were killed trying to cross the Wall during the Cold War.

During the 28 years of the Wall's beingness 121 men, viii women in addition to nine children were killed spell trying to cross into West Berlin. Caidos en el Muro uses the Google Maps API to plot the locations where each of the 138 victims were killed spell trying to cross the edge betwixt East in addition to West Germany.


Google took a unlike approach to their commemorations of the reunification of Germany. 25 years later the autumn of the Berlin Wall Google interviewed twenty-five young Germans to discovery out what life is similar inward the novel Germany. Google's #Deutschland25 features twenty-five interviews amongst individuals who convey grown-up inward Germany's Generation Mauerfall.

In the interviews manager in addition to journalist Bettina Blümner questions twenty-five extraordinary immature Germans virtually their lives, hopes in addition to dreams for the future. #Deutschland25 also includes a prominent Google Map which allows you lot to sentiment comments that other Germans convey left on the website in addition to to travel out your ain comments virtually life in addition to the of import social issues inward Deutschland today.


The Berliner Morgenpost has also created a novel map of Berlin which reveals a novel dividing business inward the city. How the S-Bahn Ring Divides the City is a map of the High German working capital missive of the alphabet inward which the neighborhoods convey been colored to exhibit whether most of the inhabitants were born inward or exterior Berlin.

The map reveals that inside the S-Bahn telephone inward every neighborhood, except Neu-Templhof, the bulk of the residents were born exterior Berlin. Outside the S-Bahn telephone many of the neighborhoods are dominated yesteryear native Berliners.


DataDraw is a JavaScript library for the Google Maps API which tin live on used to visualize in addition to animate large amounts of information on a Google Map using a canvass layer.

You tin sentiment the library inward activity on this impressive Wind Visualisation map. The map simulates current of air patterns on a styled Google Map. If you lot direct the 'animated style' selection you lot tin sentiment a beautiful animated imitation visualization of current of air patterns. You tin adapt the direction in addition to forcefulness of the current of air yesteryear dragging the cerise arrow inward the round down current of air control.
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