The Maps Of The Week

This calendar week I was actually impressed amongst 2 maps which were inspired past times BERG's Here & There horizonless maps of Manhattan. The OSM Buildings GL Inception Map in addition to the Tangram Bendy Map both render a horizonless perspective for whatever place inward the world.

In both maps nearby 3d buildings are shown from a start soul indicate of view. In the distance notwithstanding ascent beyond & inward a higher house the foreground buildings the map of the residual of the metropolis bends towards the heavens.


I was too impressed this calendar week amongst Dropchop, a browser based GIS built amongst Mapbox in addition to Turf.js. It allows you lot to perform quite sophisticated spatial queries on mapped information without a server in addition to inward your alternative of mesh browser.

Dropchop allows you lot to upload information from your computer, from a URL or fifty-fifty from OpenStreetMap, using the Overpass API. The best agency to discovery out what is possible amongst Dropchop is to play amongst it. If you lot don't accept whatever map information to manus hence you lot tin run the in-built Overpass API sorcerer to choose grip of closed to information from OpenStreetMap.

Once you lot accept performed the required GIS operations on your mapped information you lot tin hence download the results every 2d a GeoJSON file or every 2d a shapefile.