The Maps Of The Week

Dinosaur Pictures' visualization of the history of the public is i of my favorite maps of the twelvemonth too thence far. This interactive 3d globe shows how the basis has progressed inwards the final 600 meg years, from the dawn of multi-cellular life correct upwards to the starting fourth dimension of the digital age.

What Did the World Look Like allows yous to persuasion a 3d globe visualization of how the basis has transformed throughout the history of life on this planet. The site includes 2 menus, which permit yous to alter the era visualized on the interactive 3d globe. The carte at the operate past times of the page allows yous to select an era past times age. The carte at the operate past times correct allows yous to select a persuasion based on the stages of life on basis & geologic period.


I was besides impressed this calendar week amongst the Art of Hearing, which uses panoramic audio amongst Street View images inwards lodge to exam your hearing.

The Art of Hearing places yous inside 3 obscured Street View panoramas. Your business inwards each Street View is to position the root of the hidden audio (a waterfall, plane vocal & a ringing telephone). You are given a score inwards each Street View based on how unopen yous guessed to the root of the sound.

At the cease of the exam your hearing is assessed based on your guesses, your historic menstruation too gender. Do rattling badly too yous merely mightiness endure advised to undertake a proper hearing test.


The nearly shared map on social media this calendar week was probably Startups Streets San Francisco, a CartoDB route map of the Californian urban center inwards which all the roads are renamed for the city's largest startup companies.

The map isn't based on the location of San Francisco's startup companies but on the marker of funding of each company. The companies amongst the biggest funding are assigned to the biggest San Francisco streets too the funding levels are based on information from Crunchbase.


Another map from CartoDB visualizes the same information inwards an alone unlike way. The Startup Buildings of San Francisco shows the heights of buildings based on the marker of each startup's funding.

The colors on the map relate to the reveal of startup companies residing inwards the building. The darker the color the less companies inwards the building. Therefore the darker, taller buildings are domicile to the nearly good funded companies. You tin click on private buildings to persuasion the companies residing there.