Maps Of The Week

I've been thinking a lot most the potential of Terrapattern this week. Terrapattern uses deep learning machine vision techniques to search for similar patterns inwards satellite imagery.

It is a technology which could genuinely revolutionize a reveal of fields. For lawsuit inwards archæology aerial imagery of historical sites is ofttimes used to create upwards one's heed sub-surface features based upon features which tin live seen on the soil - peculiarly when viewed inwards detailed aerial imagery. If yous fed inwards the satellite icon of a round barrow into Terrapattern thence it could position other locations alongside similar features.

At the minute Terrapattern exclusively industrial plant for Pittsburgh, San Francisco, New York as well as Detroit. However other cities are coming soon. The Terrapattern about page has examples of things that yous powerfulness desire to travail searching for, such every bit baseball game diamonds, airplanes or solar panels. Part of the fun of Terrapattern withal is simply clicking on the map to come across how chop-chop it finds other similar looking locations.

That 'about' page besides includes a lengthy 'How it Works' explanation of the neural network behind Terrapattern.


Blast Map is an interactive map showing hole-and-corner nuclear tests carried out yesteryear countries across the globe since 1963. 1963 was the yr the Partial Test Ban Treaty came into force, which prohibited all seek out detonations of nuclear weapons except underground. Using information from the Northern California Earthquake Data Center the map shows all seismic events which convey been determined to live non geological inwards nature but were instead caused yesteryear either quarry blasting or nuclear testing.

Blast Map shows the place of these quarry blasts as well as nuclear seek out sites around the world. The nautical chart beneath the map shows the magnitude as well as appointment of each of the blasts. The nautical chart as well as map are synchronized together thence that the nautical chart automatically updates to reverberate the information inwards the electrical flow map view. You tin besides purpose the nautical chart to refine the information shown on the map yesteryear attain of magnitude as well as date.

The map sidebar provides links to pregnant nuclear testing events. For example, if yous click on the 'Soviet Nuclear Archipelago' link yous tin stance a map as well as nautical chart stance of soviet nuclear testing from 1964-1991. You tin read a footling to a greater extent than most the significance of these highlighted testing events as well as how the map was made on this Adventures inwards Mapping weblog post.


Mark Evans has used the Google Maps API to create a hypnotic visualization of commuting flows, showing the distances as well as 'journeys' that American's brand to as well as from work.

Using the ACS Commute Map yous tin zoom inwards on whatever US county as well as stance an animated map showing where people alive as well as work. The maps don't exhibit the actual journeys that commuters brand but produce laissez passer on a swell feel of how town as well as metropolis centers suck inwards commuters from surrounding suburbs.

The information for the maps comes from the American Community Survey. You tin larn to a greater extent than most how the map was made from this information on Mark's weblog post ACS Commuter Data Visualizations. Mark's ACS Commute Map was originally inspired yesteryear Alasdair Rae's mapped visualizations of commuting inwards the Bay Area.