The Miniature Maps Of The Week

This calendar week a twain of real interesting Google Street View projects were released. Jumeirah Inside is an incredibly good designed Street View tour of the Burj Al Arab Hotel inwards Dubai. The most impressive facial expression of this tour is the seamless integration of video on pinnacle of Street View's 360 grade panoramic imagery.

If you lot conduct the Street View of the hotel's antechamber you lot tin stance the Cascade Waterfall inwards action. There are iii buttons beneath the waterfall which truly let you lot to stance the waterfall's dissimilar outflow shows inwards video on pinnacle of Street View. Select 1 of the numbers together with you lot tin stance the selected video of the outflow on pinnacle of the Street View image.

The other Street View projection released this calendar week involves panoramic imagery of the world's largest model railway, Miniatur Wunderland inwards Hamburg, Germany.

To capture panoramic imagery of this miniature Blue Planet Google worked amongst Ubilabs to construct minuscule Street View cameras mounted on tiny vehicles. You tin explore this novel miniature Street View projection on Google Maps. However the best house to stance these novel tiny Street View scenes is on this dedicated Miniatur Wunderland Street View website.


This calendar week I equally good truly liked the NYC Felonies Map, inwards which the New York skyline is dominated past times a serial of skyscrapers of crime.

The NYC Felonies Map shows the rates of the 7 major felonies for each urban inwardness block inwards New York City. The felonies are shown at the inwardness of each street segment past times stacking map markers for each felony. The taller the stack the to a greater extent than the crime. Zoom inwards on the map to stance each stack inwards to a greater extent than detail.


In the 1980's motion painting WarGames a high schoolhouse educatee hacks into a supercomputer together with nearly starts a total scale global nuclear war. The estimator is called the War Operation Plan Response together with inwards the cinema NORAD convey a huge wall-sized dashboard to interface amongst the computer.

Alan Walker, Jeffrey Shaffer, Anya A'Hearn together with Chris DeMartini convey collaborated to recreate the War Operations Plan Response dashboard, consummate amongst a faithful rendering of the WarGames map (animated nuclear weapons et al). You tin read to a greater extent than almost how they managed to recreate the WOPR dashboard inwards Tableau inwards this Re-creating WarGames amongst Tableau together with Mapbox weblog post.

You tin equally good stance the U.S. WOPR dashboard together with Russia's ain version of a super military machine computer. The map used inwards both of these WarGames dashboards was created past times Anya A’Hearn inwards Mapbox Studio. You tin stance the WarGames Map full-screen here. You tin equally good cheque out the WarGames map amongst a polar projection.