Maps Of The Week

This calendar week saw the give away of 2 smashing interactive maps visualizing the world's transportation, communication too loose energy networks. First upwards is Shipmap.org, an outstanding animated interactive map visualizing the movements of the global merchant shipping fleet over the flat of i year.

The map uses AIS shipping information from exactEarth. This information is thence presented on a Leaflet powered map using custom designed map tiles. The map tiles include bathymetry too major river information from Natural Earth.

Using the map you lot tin explore the movements of dissimilar types of cargo ships over the flat of 2012. You tin too filter the ships shown on the map past times type of cargo vessel.

There is thence much to beloved virtually this map, from the huge sum of animated information visualized on the map to the blueprint of the map tiles themselves. I too actually similar the vivid well guide to the map too the information displayed. This well guide takes you lot on a niggling tour of the map explaining some of the interesting patterns that emerge from the information too the worldwide merchant shipping trade.


The Connectivity Atlas is a global map constructed from exactly the man-made infrastructure of roads, pipelines too Internet cables. There is no underlying base of operations map on the Connectivity Atlas. There are no countries, seas or oceans. However, despite this lack of a base of operations map, the geography of basis is clearly revealed exactly past times displaying the world's infrastructure.

You tin explore all the transportation, loose energy too communication layers displayed on the map past times using the 'Sources' drop-down menu. Using this bill of fare you lot tin plough on or off all the dissimilar layers which makes upwards the infrastructure map of the Connectivity Atlas.

The 'Themes' bill of fare allows you lot to stance form infrastructure maps of exactly the communications, loose energy or shipping layers. It is too possible to select a characteristic on the map to select to stance a global map of exactly that feature. For representative if you lot select a route on the map you lot tin click-through to stance a global map of exactly all the world's roads.


Geopedia is a novel map based application for finding Wikipedia entries virtually points of involvement approximately whatever location.

Gepedia uses the Wikipedia API to charge all the Wikipedia entries for places approximately a location on an OpenStreetMap based map. Enter a location into the search bar or right-click on the map too markers volition demonstrate all the Wikipedia entries close to your selected location.

Click on whatever of the map markers displayed on the map too the Wikipedia entry describing the betoken of involvement or location is displayed inwards the map sidebar. Geopedia provides a smashing means to larn to a greater extent than virtually all the interesting things to run across approximately whatever location inwards the world.