Maps Of The Week
My favorite interactive map this calendar week was Esri's A Hillshade Everyone Can Use. Esri Story Maps tin survive a trivial formulaic in addition to thus they don't characteristic real oft inwards my weekly round-ups. However this introduction to hill-shade maps in addition to to Esri's own next generation hillshade layer is beautifully pose together.
The map compares Esri's novel multi-directional hillshading to traditional hillshading (swipe left & correct on the map to compare former alongside new). It besides provides to a greater extent than or less groovy examples of how a hillshade layer tin supply a clearer context to topographical map features in addition to other mapped data. In detail in that location is a groovy instance map showing how a hillshade layer reveals to a greater extent than or less of the effects the landscape tin get got on current of air turbine placement.
This calendar week I actually besides liked NYPL Lab's Street View, Then & Now: New York City's Fifth Avenue. This trivial application allows y'all to accept a virtual stroll downwards Fifth Avenue inwards Street View patch comparison today's New York to photos taken at the outset of the Twentieth Century.
The application was designed to promote the New York Public Library's liberate of to a greater extent than than 180,000 items into earth domain inwards its Digital Collections. The items include maps, photographs, letters, posters, manuscripts, canvas music, drawings in addition to other texts, all of which y'all tin download inwards high-resolution in addition to without restriction from the Digital Collections website.
Maps made alongside Google Fusion Tables besides don't oft arrive into the Maps of the Week post. I'll brand an exception this calendar week for CityMetric's map of United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland motorcar ownership. Mapping census information doesn't e'er pay off but this CityMetric map clearly shows the geography of motorcar ownership inwards England & Wales.
The CityMetric map of motorcar ownership shows that inwards towns in addition to cities across England & Wales many people get got decided to alive without a car. If y'all hold back at whatever United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland metropolis on the map (only England & Wales is covered) y'all volition run into that the lowest per centum of motorcar ownership is inwards inner metropolis neighborhoods. As y'all movement out, into the metropolis suburbs, motorcar ownership grows. Once y'all operate out into the rural areas in addition to thus close every menage owns a car,