Reinventing The Map

The 2015 European Games is existence held inwards Baku, Azerbaijan, from 12 to 28 June 2015. This volition move the initiatory consequence of the novel European Games, an international mini-Olympics type consequence for athletes representing the National Olympic Committees of Europe.

The Journey of the Flame is a real interesting map which shows the road of the Baku 2015 torch relay. This futuristic 3d map was built using WebGL together with three.js. When zoomed out the map presents a traditional altitude downward map view. As yous zoom inwards the map transitions to introduce an oblique persuasion of Azerbaijan together with the road of the torch relay.

If yous conduct a town on the map yous tin persuasion social messages posted past times map users at that location. To persuasion a message merely conduct 1 of the private flames shooting out of the torch that appears over the town.

The map isn't alone successful. The town labels are real unclear when the map is zoomed out (the labels should move larger when the map is zoomed out). It is likewise a fleck hard to persuasion the road on the map. The road would move to a greater extent than clear if a contrast color to the map background was used. However yous tin role the timeline at the altitude of the map to navigate to a greater extent than easily to private towns on the torch relay route.