Maps Of The Week

This twelvemonth is the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, the largest battle of World War I on the Western Front. It took house betwixt 1 July together with eighteen Nov 1916 together with to a greater extent than than a 1 G k men were wounded or killed.

The Living Legacies Engagement Centre at Queen's University Belfast has released a even map of the battle, looking inwards detail at the telephone commutation events involving the Irish Gaelic Raised Divisions (36th Ulster & 16th Irish). 4dSomme uses the Esri Story Map library to explore the history of the battle, the importance of field-surveyors & cartographers to the battle together with the telephone commutation events involving the Irish Gaelic Raised Divisions.

This even map makes corking role of modern 3d aerial maps of the River Somme overlaid amongst vintage armed services maps to plot the advances together with retreats of the Irish Gaelic Raised Divisions during the battle. Vintage photographs together with Google Street View imagery are also used throughout to illustrate around of the of import locations inwards the battle.

The concluding interactive map inwards 4dSomme allows you lot to persuasion a pose out of the vintage armed services maps overlaid on transcend of a 3d map of the region. This map also allows you lot to overlay the changing positions of the British together with High German front end lines on transcend of the vintage armed services maps.


Back inwards Jan Emy Analytics released the Building Heights inwards London map. They accept at 1 time released a novel interactive map which incredibly shows the heights of almost all buildings inwards England.

Building Heights inwards England uses information from the Environment Agency's open LIDAR data to color edifice footprints inwards all of England past times the meridian of each building. You tin post away role the map's search component subdivision to zoom the map to whatever place inwards the country. You tin post away together with hence click on whatever edifice on the map to notice out its exact meridian together with its expanse size.

The Building Heights inwards England map also provides a statistical breakdown of edifice meridian information for England's transcend 25 urban areas. If you lot pick out 1 of these urban areas from the map card you lot tin post away persuasion information inwards the map sidebar on the pose out of buildings inwards the area, the density of buildings together with a histogram which shows a breakdown of all buildings inwards the expanse past times height.


Esri has released a corking cascading Story Map exploring the achievements of the geographer, naturalist together with explorer Alexander von Humboldt. In Alexander von Humboldt's Whole basis Vision Esri uses vintage maps, 3d maps together with historical images to aid explicate the reach together with importance of Humboldt's discoveries inwards South America.

The even map looks inwards detail at Humboldt's crusade to climb Ecuador's Chimborazo Mountain together with his exploration of the Orinoco River. As you lot progress through the even map Humboldt's achievements, observations together with contributions to scientific discipline are illustrated amongst historical maps from the David Rumsey Collection, Humboldt's ain diagrams together with Esri's interactive maps.

The Esri even map of Humboldt's Whole basis Vision concludes amongst a concluding department which explores the legacy of Humboldt's operate together with his influence on other scientists, writers together with statesmen.