The Marvelous Maps Of The Week

There has been a huge surge over the terminal few years of maps which exhibit the historic menses of buildings using colored edifice footprints. This Los Angeles edifice historic menses map has the added bonus of including an animation option which allows y'all to sentry the metropolis growing over time.

The LA Building Age map visualizes the historic menses of nearly 3 1000000 buildings inwards Los Angeles. The colors of the edifice footprints on the map exhibit the decade of when the buildings were originally built (you tin flame also click on private edifice footprints on the map to thought the exact twelvemonth that it was built).

The animation option provides a peachy feel of how as well as where Los Angeles developed during the 20th Century.


In 1963 Jerry Gretzinger began drawing a map of an imaginary city. Now, 52 years later, y'all tin flame explore Jerry's metropolis on an interactive Leaflet powered map.

Using Jerry's Map y'all tin flame zoom inwards on whatever of the over 3,200 8 past times x inch panels of the master copy newspaper map. Jerry estimates that he has averaged close twenty minutes a solar daytime over xxx years working on the map. He says,

"That would come upwards to 456.25 days or 1 twelvemonth as well as 3 months. To convey 'wasted' xv months of my lxx years as well as nine months doesn’t seem likewise bad."

How long volition y'all pass inwards examining this novel interactive version of Jerry's Map?


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

The Journey of the Flame is a rattling interesting map which shows the road of the Baku 2015 torch relay. This futuristic 3d map was built using WebGL as well as three.js. When zoomed out the map presents a traditional summit downwardly map view. As y'all zoom inwards the map genuinely transitions to introduce an oblique thought of Azerbaijan as well as the road of the torch relay.

If y'all pick out a town on the map y'all tin flame thought social messages posted past times map users at that location. To thought a message only pick out i of the private flames shooting out of the torch that appears over the town.