The Leaflet Map Of Pluto & The 3D Globe

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has created an interactive Leaflet map of Pluto from an enhanced color picture of the planet. The ABC's Pluto Map allows you lot to zoom inwards on the well-nigh high-resolution picture of Pluto released past times NASA hence far.

The map tiles for the interactive were created using Zoomify. Creating map tiles variety out an picture amongst Zoomify is a fairly painless procedure cheers to Bjørn Sandvik's Showing Zoomify Images amongst Leaflet tutorial is a proficient house to larn how to purpose Zoomify to exercise your map tiles in addition to how to purpose the resulting tiles amongst the Leaflet mapping platform.


If you lot desire to accept NASA's Pluto for a spin in addition to hence you lot should likewise accept a await at the New York Time's 3d public of Pluto created from NASA imagery. The NYT's Pluto Globe uses a release of images of the planet to exercise an interactive public of Pluto.

Some parts of the NYT's Pluto public consist of higher resolution images than other parts of the planet in addition to the planet's 'south pole' remains uncovered for now. However the Pluto Globe does include a few map labels showing you lot the locations of roughly of the planet's named regions.