Maps Of The Week
Mapzen's Tangram mapping platform is a library for creating 2D & 3D maps using WebGL. One of the primary advantages of Tangram is the mightiness to fashion all aspects of the map to exercise actually stunning looking private maps.
Patricio Gonzalez Vivo has used Tangram to exercise a beautiful looking map based on the fine art of Ryoji Ikeda. The Ikeda Map is a beautiful dark & white map, illuminated alongside the animated lights of route traffic as well as lights shining from the 3d edifice windows. Patricio used iii pseudo-random procedural patterns to exercise the animations. You tin larn to a greater extent than almost how the map was made on the Mapzen blog.
The Berliner Morgenpost's Lärmkarte Berlin provides a heat-map stance of road, world transit, aerodrome as well as industrial racket throughout the High German capital.
If you lot mouse-over whatsoever business office of the heat-map layer you lot tin stance the racket levels at that location. The information includes the recorded decibel levels for both hateful solar daytime & dark fourth dimension as well as a breakdown of the decibel levels from route as well as transit noise.
The information for the map comes from a racket survey undertaken every 5 years past times the Berlin Senate Administration for Urban Development as well as Environment. The ii information windows, at the summit correct of the map, render links to the noisiest as well as quietest neighborhoods inwards Berlin, alongside video interviews alongside residents who alive inwards these areas.
The GDELT Project map isn't the most beautiful map I've e'er seen only it did characteristic inwards the most read ship service of the week.
The map shows all the books from the HathiTrust collection. The information from these books is immediately available from the GDELT Project every bit i of ii form BigQuery datasets. These datasets are:
Internet Archive Book Collection inwards Google BigQuery (includes fulltext for 1800-1922 books)
HathiTrust Book Collection inwards Google BigQuery
There is plainly a lot of mapping potential inwards these 3.5 i 1000 1000 books. The GDELT Project map shows the locations of all the locations mentioned inwards the collection from 1800-2011. One obvious designing on the map is the increase of North American locations mentioned inwards the books every bit the years pass.
