Maps Of The Week

This calendar week saw the loose of 2 really good designed interactive atmospheric condition maps, VentuSky too MeteoEarth.

VentuSky allows yous to sentiment a mapped forecast of the atmospheric condition for whatever place inward the public for over a calendar week ahead. One of the nigh impressive features of VentuSky is the air current speed selection which visualizes air current direction & speed on the map amongst animated streamlines. As good every bit air current forecasts the map allows yous to sentiment forecasts for temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, air pull per unit of measurement area too snowfall cover.

You tin too sentiment animated air current direction too temperature forecasts on a 3d globe, courtesy of MeteoEarth. The globe provides worldwide temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, air current too air pull per unit of measurement area forecasts using information from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.


Another impressive 3d map released this calendar week visualizes baseball game abode runs on meridian of a 3d model of San Diego's Petco Park. The Petco Homers map shows where all the abode runs inward the 2015 flavour were scored.

You tin filter the abode runs shown on the map past times squad too past times fourth dimension of day. You tin rotate too zoom the map to discovery the best angles. The map fifty-fifty includes a publish of quick links which volition rotate the map to the umpire's view, the sentiment from right-field, or the views from the Omni or Marriot Hotels.


One of my favorite maps this calendar week uses the Leaflet mapping library to furnish a consummate visual guide to the taxonomy of life. Lifemap is an interactive map which allows yous to explore the taxonomic classification of over 800,000 dissimilar species.

The map industrial plant similar other interactive maps - every bit yous zoom inward on the map to a greater extent than special is revealed. With Lifemap this agency that every bit yous zoom inward on a taxa the groups inside that classification are revealed. In this way yous tin deport on zooming into the map too the tree of life until private species are revealed.

The 'pro' version of Lifemap, provides an exhaustive National Center for Biotechnology Information taxonomy (more than 1.1 1000000 taxa) too links to the NCBI webpage for each taxa.