Maps Of The Week
Today is Norway's Constitution Day. So meridian billing has to acquire to Verdens Gang's A Game of Norway. In 2014, to grade the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Norwegian constitution, the paper released this floor map to attention state the history behind the signing of the constitution.
H5N1 Game of Kingdom of Norway is a beautifully designed floor map exploring in addition to explaining the historical events which eventually led to the signing of the Norwegian Constitution on May 17th 1814. The map animations in addition to narrative elements are made possible past times using skrollr, a parallax scrolling JavaScript library. Skrollr allows you lot to animate whatsoever CSS belongings of whatsoever chemical ingredient based on the horizontal scrollbar position. Using skrollr H5N1 Game of Kingdom of Norway is able to displace simply about the background map icon in addition to animate the movements of the ships, troops in addition to other images on the map equally the user scrolls downwardly the page.
Mapzen has launched a gratuitous Vector Tile Service to complement their Tangram WebGL map renderer. The combination of vector tiles in addition to Tangram allows Mapzen to homecoming map tiles inward real-time inward the browser.
This way that the map tiles tin live rattling dynamic. Check out some of the illustration maps on the Tangram page. The Day / Night Map shows how colors in addition to edifice footprints tin live updated inward real-time inward the browser. The Tron Map shows how you lot tin apply animation to the map tiles (in this instance to practise the termination of moving vehicles on roads in addition to streets).
My favorite manner inward the examples is this Cross Hatch map. I'm also rather fond of the Lego Style, made out of colored plastic brick textures. When panning simply about on these maps notice how the perspective on the 3d buildings modify depending on your indicate of view.
The Web Mercator projection is non rattling adept when it comes to providing accurate maps of the Arctic in addition to Antarctic. Fortunately, however, in that location is similar a shot some other solution for anyone who wants to practise interactive maps of the Arctic. Arctic Web Map is a new Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server, in addition to a Leaflet-based customer library.
There are vi Arctic projections available, each using a Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area (LAEA) stance of the North Pole region. The Arctic Web Map tiles are compatible alongside Leaflet maps, when used alongside the Proj4JS in addition to Proj4Leaflet libraries. The map tiles are available to role gratuitous of accuse for low-traffic users. If you lot need high-traffic role in addition to hence you lot should contact Arctic Web Map.
Streets of London is a map of the City of London which allows you lot to discovery how private London roads originally got their names. Click on a highlighted route on the map in addition to you lot tin honor out why the selected route is called what it is in addition to where its mention originally came from.
There are some interesting themes inward the names of London's streets. You tin choose from these themes using the map bill of fare inward the meridian right-hand corner of the map. When you lot plough some of the categories dorsum on (after deselecting) you lot tin larn a niggling to a greater extent than close the history behind the selected category.
