Maps Of The Week
This calendar week my clear favorite map was this wonderful looking map of the Grand Canyon. The Geologic Map of the Grand Canyon in addition to Vicinity is a beautiful Leaflet.js based interactive map of the Grand Canyon. The map is based on information gathered yesteryear the U.S.A. Geological Survey.
The map uses dissimilar colors to exhibit the dissimilar stone units in addition to geologic strata inwards the Grand Canyon in addition to surrounding area. The map likewise includes contour lines. If you lot hover over the map the geologic strata at the selected place is revealed inwards the pocket-size information window. If you lot click on the map you lot tin larn to a greater extent than well-nigh the geologic strata (the information is displayed below the map).
Dublinia is a fantastic looking map in addition to a keen agency to explore Viking & Medieval Dublin. The site shows how the metropolis grew from a pocket-size Viking short town into a large walled Medieval town.
Dublinia presents an oblique persuasion of the capital, showing how the metropolis developed from 800 AD to 1500 AD. H5N1 timeline command allows you lot to persuasion a serial of oblique views of the metropolis for every decade from 800-1500 AD. Select a appointment from the timeline in addition to the map updates to exhibit you lot a persuasion of the metropolis for the chosen year.
The map includes a seat out of map markers which allow you lot to larn to a greater extent than well-nigh a seat out of Dublin's historical landmarks. If you lot click on a marking you lot tin sentinel a video explaining the importance in addition to evolution of the landmark. Each of the videos includes wonderful animated 3d models in addition to an good commentary well-nigh the chosen landmark's history.
PATTRN is a novel opened upward sourced conflict mapping platform developed yesteryear Goldsmiths University. The PATTRN platform allows anyone to practise an interactive map which tin hold upward used to part in addition to collate first-hand reports inwards conflict or crisis situations.
The platform was showtime used yesteryear Amnesty International inwards final year's Gaza Platform, to plot 2,700 attacks on Gaza yesteryear State of Israel during the 2014 Gaza conflict. You tin likewise persuasion the PATTRN platform inwards activeness inwards Fortress Europe, a mapped visualization of the Migrant Files information set, in addition to Political Violence inwards Africa, a visualization of the ACLED information set.
The platform itself tin hold upward downloaded from its GitHub repository. Once set-up PATTRN acts every bit a information aggregator in addition to mapped visualization platform. Users of your PATTRN projection tin in addition to then contribute information well-nigh events alongside infinite in addition to fourth dimension coordinates, in addition to to add together tags, media in addition to content to those events.