Animated Race Maps

Back inwards 2013 the New York Times created an impressive animated mapped visualization of the America's Cup Finale betwixt the USA as well as New Zealand. The America’s Cup Finale: Oracle’s Path to Victory showed the progress of the race betwixt the 2 yachts from outset to finish.

The America's Cup 2013 Finale: An Animated Map is a lovingly created as well as accurate reproduction of the NYT's map using Leaflet.js. The map allows you lot to replay the whole finale betwixt the 2 sailing teams. The map fifty-fifty includes the air current speed as well as air current direction for the whole race.

If you lot similar this animated map visualization as well as are interested inwards creating a similar animated race map as well as then you lot tin dismiss sentiment the entire America's Cup projection on GitHub.


Over 35,000 people competed inwards lastly year's Berlin Marathon. You tin dismiss meet how every ane of those competitors fared inwards an animated map of the race, created past times the Berliner Morgenpost.

The Berlin Marathon 2016 map animates every unmarried runner inwards the Berlin Marathon on come about of a map of the race's route. As the animation plays out you lot tin dismiss sentinel all 35,827 of the athletes equally they consummate the course.

The animated map of the Berlin Marathon 2016 was created using the PixiJS HTML5 engine.

If you lot are interested inwards mapped visualizations of sports as well as then you lot mightiness likewise similar The New Age of Sports Visualization.