The World's Tidings - 2017

2017 was a momentous year. It began amongst the swearing inward of Donald Trump every bit the 45th President of the United States. It ended amongst the USA withdrawing from the UN's New York Declaration, a policy adopted unanimously past times 193 states to attention ameliorate the fate of refugees together with immigrants. You tin hand the sack read to a greater extent than close the major events of final twelvemonth inward World 2017.

World 2017 is a summary of the major news, sports events together with scientific discoveries that happened final year. It provides an overview of the global political, economical together with social events which shaped 2017. As you lot scroll through World 2017 you lot progress chronologically through the year. As you lot progress an interactive globe rotates together with shows you lot the locations of major events some the world, piece the scrolling sidebar provides a summary of each of these global events.

Under the hood World 2017 is using Klokan Technologies' WebGL Earth. WebGL basis is an open-source virtual globe. The WebGL basis JavaScript API is based on the pop Leaflet JavaScript API together with is so relatively elementary to use, peculiarly if you lot bring sense of using the Leaflet mapping library.