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Sunday, September 28, 2014

The Marvelous Maps Of The Week


Eric Fischer at Mapbox has mapped vi billion geo-tagged Twitter messages. The 6 Billion Tweets Map is a swell visualization of Twitter's global appeal, non exclusively showing where Twitter is pop merely also where the social network has nonetheless to attain traction.

Mapping vi billion Tweets is quite a technical achievement. If you lot are interested inwards how Eric was able to produce out mapping thus much information on ane map too thus you lot should read his Mapbox weblog post on how he created the map. In item you lot powerfulness survive interested inwards a novel tool which Eric has developed for making vector tiles from large information sets, called Tippecanoe.


Bath is a beautiful city, amount of beautiful Georgian buildings. It also at ane time has a beautiful historical map website.

I've seen a lot of historical map websites and History Map: Bath stands out every bit ane of the ameliorate designed visualizations of former maps. This Leaflet.js created map allows you lot to sentiment 8 historical maps of the city, ranging from the 1500′s through to the 1940′s.

The site allows you lot to sentiment the historical maps on acme of the modern map of Bath using a magnifying drinking glass lens overlay. Alternatively you lot tin sack switch to sentiment each of the historical maps inwards full-screen mode. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 map inset also provides a piffling information on each of the historical map overlays


One of the prettiest looking maps this calendar week was this animated map of Flights Over Queens. This CartoDB created map is a swell visualization of flying patterns over New York City.

The map animates flights on the eve of Oct 1st 2014 coming into too exiting JFK, LGA too EWR. The map also shows the flying paths of each of the evening's flights. The number is a rather beautiful map of flying patterns over the city.