Arctic Map Tiles For Interactive Maps

The Web Mercator projection gets a lot of unfair criticism. One really fair criticism yet is that Web Mercator is adjacent to useless for providing accurate maps of the Arctic together with Antarctic.

Recently the WWF released a beautiful online map called ArkGIS. The map includes layers to visualize historical H2O ice together with snowfall coverage, stone oil together with gas exploitation together with data virtually wild animals inwards the region.

I can't respect whatever data on how the ArkGIS map was created. However you lot tin flaming run into that a lot of piece of occupation has been pose into creating the map projection together with styling the map tiles. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot to a greater extent than piece of occupation than many developers volition desire (or induce got time) to undertake when creating interactive maps.

Fortunately, however, in that place is instantly or thence other solution for anyone who wants to exercise interactive maps of the Arctic. Arctic Web Map is a new Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server, together with a Leaflet-based customer library.

There are vi Arctic projections available, each using a Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area (LAEA) thought of the North Pole region. The Arctic Web Map tiles are compatible amongst Leaflet maps, when used amongst the Proj4JS together with Proj4Leaflet libraries. The map tiles are available to piece of occupation gratis of accuse for low-traffic users. If you lot postulate high-traffic piece of occupation together with thence you lot should contact Arctic Web Map.