2015 - Maps Of The Year

It's fourth dimension i time once to a greater extent than for the annual round-up of the best interactive maps of the yr - nearly.

There are over 100 maps inwards this year's collection of amazing maps. I've thence decided to separate this upwardly into 2 parts. Today y'all become the 2015 Maps of the Year - Part One. This get-go business office of the 100 best maps of the yr features interactive maps which were released from Jan - June 2015. The residue of the yr volition come upwardly side past times side week, inwards Part Two of the round-up.

You tin course of teaching the maps past times mapping platform. The platforms include Leaflet, Mapbox, the Google Maps API, CartoDB, Esri in addition to Other.

While browsing the collection y'all powerfulness abide by that Leaflet has taken over from the Google Maps API every bit the mapping platform of alternative for the discerning developer. This reflects a full general designing that I've noticed over the final 2 years, where the Google Maps API is getting used less in addition to less every bit developers plough to a greater extent than & to a greater extent than to other mapping platforms.

In final year's Maps of the Year round-up I ignored all maps which weren't made amongst the assistance of Leaflet, Mapbox, the Google Maps API, CartoDB or Esri. This yr I couldn't ignore the high divulge of neat maps which induce got been created without the assistance of these mapping libraries. WebGL in addition to JavaScript libraries such every bit D3.js appear to induce got encouraged a lot of developers to nail out on their own.

More side past times side calendar week ....