The Prettiest Maps Of The Week

For the minute calendar week running the Maps of the Week round-up includes a Dorling Cartogram - this calendar week inward the variety of a mapped visualization of the world's summit tidings stories. Unfiltered.news is an interactive cartogram of the world's news. The map provides a bully agency to explore which tidings stories are beingness reported each 24-hour interval or hence the world.

Unfiltered.news visualizes the summit 100 tidings stories from Google News for each solid reason on the map. If you lot select a country's circle on the map the summit tidings stories from the solid reason volition charge inward the map sidebar in addition to the topics volition appear inward the circle.

The size of the words yell for the set out of times the topic has been mentioned inward the news. If you lot select a topic from the map the tidings stories relating to that topic volition in addition to hence appear inward the map sidebar. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 timeline volition every bit good appear which allows you lot to explore the tidings trends for that topic over time.


This calendar week I was every bit good actually impressed amongst a beautiful novel map of Mars. Google Mars was released x years agone this week. Google Mars all the same exists exactly these days you lot tin every bit good access a 3d map of Mars past times zooming all the agency out inward the principal Google Maps (switch to 3d persuasion in addition to zoom all the agency out - the pick to switch to maps of the Luna or Mars should in addition to hence appear inward the 'Explore' panel).

Alternatively you lot tin every bit good explore Mars inward a beautiful novel topographical map of the crimson planet. Kenneth Field's (Is There) Life on Mars is a gorgeous relief map which allows you lot to explore the surface of Mars in addition to larn most some of the planet's most hitting geological features.

As good every bit beingness a beautiful looking map (Is There) Life on Mars includes a wealth of information most many of the craters on Mars in addition to most human spacecraft landings on the planet. The map's information panel every bit good intriguingly refers to a hidden chemical cistron on the map.


Another beautiful looking develop of maps is Empty Pipes's Isochrone Driving Maps of the World.

Using OpenStreetMap mapping information in addition to the Graphopper opened upwards root routing library Empty Pipes has created a serial of maps for towns in addition to cites or hence the world. The maps visualize the driving times when starting from the pith of each of the mapped cities.

Empty Pipes every bit good makes a set out of interesting observations based on his ischrone maps of driving times. For illustration he notices how many of the driving fourth dimension maps for cities inward the U.S.A. stimulate got a distinctive pyramid shape. One resultant of the grid patterns of many American cities is that it takes much longer to elbow grease 'along the diagonal than to go direct N in addition to south'.