The Maps Of The Week

Inside Asia Tours has produced iii real impressive custom designed interactive maps showcasing some of the wonderful destinations that tin plow over the sack last visited inwards Burma, Nippon as well as inwards Vietnam, Kingdom of Cambodia & Laos.

Each of the iii custom designed maps characteristic some wonderful touches, such every bit animated boats as well as bounding main monsters. The custom map mark icons too include pocket-size animations as well as unfurling scrolls which break the house labels.when you lot mouse-over a marker.

If you lot choose a mark on the map you lot tin plow over the sack as well as then explore the chosen tourist goal using Google Maps panoramic Street View. imagery. The exclusively matter actually missing from Inside Asia is some background information on the featured locations. It would last squeamish if the Street View scenes too included a niggling information most the selected destination.


Between 2011 as well as 2015 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft orbited Mercury, studying the planet's chemic composition, geology, as well as magnetic field.

Melown's 3d Map of Mercury uses imagery collected past times Messenger to supply an interactive 3d globe of the planet. The map includes iv dissimilar imagery layers: natural color, morphology, fake color as well as enhanced color.

The map itself was created amongst Melown's novel 3d mapping library. Melown are currently accepting applications from developers who want to alpha exam the novel Melown Map API.


This calendar week a squad of researchers, led past times Fabio Falchi, published The New World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness. This novel atlas shows low-cal pollution but about the world, amongst low-cal pollution rated every bit a ratio to natural heaven brightness, measured at but about i a.m..

The scientific newspaper accompanying the novel atlas explains how the squad measures low-cal pollution as well as explores inwards to a greater extent than depth which populations but about the the world are most as well as to the lowest degree affected past times low-cal pollution. However, if you lot desire to explore The New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness for yourself, you lot tin plow over the sack persuasion an interactive version of the map created past times the Cooperative Institute for Research inwards Environmental Sciences.

CIRES has created both an interactive map as well as an interactive 3D Globe from the novel low-cal pollution atlas as well as says that it volition too before long unloose a KMZ information file for noncommercial use.