Dancing Maps

I've only spent the final 10 minutes singing to a map. The map enjoyed it together with fifty-fifty danced for my pleasure.

You likewise tin make this map dance. Just plough on your microphone when prompted together with thence kickoff singing your favorite song. If the map likes your vocalism thence all the buildings volition kickoff dancing for you.

The dancing map is possible because of Mapbox GL's runtime styling capabilities. The map uses the well input (using the Web Audio API) to dynamically alter the edifice heights on the map together with the intensity of the light. You tin read to a greater extent than most the technical details on the Mapbox blog.


If you lot become bored singing to a map thence you lot could ever head to a map or play a melody on ane instead. MTA.me Conductor has turned Massimo Vignelli's 1972 New York tube map into a string instrument. The map simulates trains moving on the MTA tube network together with plays a banking concern annotation every fourth dimension a tube prepare crosses the rails of roughly other train.

If the New York tube map tin live on a stringed musical instrument thence mayhap the map of Ohio tin live on a piano. Ohio has 88 counties, a pianoforte has 88 keys, thence obviously Ohio is a Piano! Just click on a county to play a note.


If the New York tube tin live on a stringed musical instrument together with Ohio tin live on a pianoforte thence Aberdeen tin live on an orchestra! Marker / Music lets you lot mix your ain music past times clicking on dissimilar locations together with playing the music that was recorded at each location. You tin combine whatever of the recordings to create your ain unique mix require from the map.