Maps Of The Week
Created for footing Day 2015 Above the Clouds is billed equally a 'real-time interactive cinematic sense celebrating the Earth'. In truth it isn't genuinely real-time (apart from the fact that yous genuinely sentinel it inwards existent time) together with at that topographic point is rattling trivial interactivity.
However Above the Clouds is rattling cinematic. The site uses a WebGL globe alongside text from Carl Sagan together with music from Sean Beeson to introduce a tour of this planet nosotros telephone hollo upwards home. There genuinely isn't much interactivity ... so yous mightiness equally good merely sit down dorsum together with bask the sense equally the 3d globe zooms inwards on some amazing satellite views of the Earth.
Cameron Booth of Transit Maps has created an interactive version of his pop 'subway map' agency atlas of American highways. In truth creating an interactive map version of the map doesn't add together a groovy bargain ... it is merely a beautiful map.
The Highways Map USA shows every unmarried Interstate Highway together with U.S. Highway inwards the contiguous 48 states. You tin forcefulness out purchase a impress of the map on Cameron's website but this interactive version of the map allows yous to pan & drag the map together with zoom inwards on detail junctions.
The map was created using Zoomify to create the map tiles from the static map. Showing Zoomify Images alongside Leaflet explains how to produce this together with includes a Leaflet plugin to add together the created tiles to a Leaflet map. Cameron's map likewise uses a dynamic URL system together with then yous tin forcefulness out link to private areas & zoom levels on the map. This functionality tin forcefulness out easily last added to Leaflet maps using the Leaflet-hash plugin.
The Geotaggers Atlas is a fascinating map showing the paths taken yesteryear Flickr photographers betwixt form photographs, based on the fourth dimension stamps together with locations of the photos. Using the map yous tin forcefulness out zoom inwards on whatsoever metropolis inwards the public together with honour non exclusively the almost pop places photographed yesteryear Flickr users but the paths the photographers create got taken around those cities.
For 5 years Eric Fischer of Mapbox has been extracting the information from Flickr photos together with mapping non merely where those photos are taken but the routes that the photographers create got taken betwixt pictures. Using the Flickr search API Eric is able to recollect the photograph geo-tags together with depict lines betwixt all the photos inwards a sequence.
The ruby-red lines on the map demo where a lensman traveled at a speed betwixt vii together with xix mph, based on the fourth dimension stamps together with locations of the pictures. As yous tin forcefulness out meet on the map of Paris higher upwards the river Seine is total of ruby-red lines, equally ferry passengers happily move downward the river snapping away at the sights of Paris.
You tin forcefulness out accept a fully guided tour of the CAOA Hyundai mill inwards Brazil thank yous to a novel narrated Street View tour of the factory
Fabrica Hyundaicaoa takes yous on a tour of the factory, allowing yous to follow the fully automated journeying of the cars equally they become from the trunk store to the pigment shop, through trim back together with in conclusion to the examination center. The whole tour is narrated (in Portuguese) together with plays automatically, together with then all yous demand produce is sit down dorsum together with watch.
If yous desire yous tin forcefulness out interrupt the tour at whatsoever betoken together with accept your ain path through the mill yesteryear using the arrows on the Google Maps Street View imagery. You tin forcefulness out likewise usage the timeline at the bottom of the page to chop-chop navigate to dissimilar parts of the factory.
