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Thursday, October 16, 2014

The Maps Of The Week


My favorite map this calendar week was the Windyty Wind Forecast map. Windyty uses NOAA air current information to exercise a global animated air current map.

Watching the animated air current patterns on Windity tin laissez passer on notice last pretty hypnotic, peculiarly if y'all opened upwardly up Noise Machine's Wind Noise Generator in some other browser tab.  If y'all require to relax too unwind this Dominicus too therefore y'all could exercise worse than sit down too dorsum too sentinel the Windty map acre listening to the Wind Noise Generator.


If you've e'er wondered how Mario too Luigi acquire by to navigate therefore effortlessly unopen to the Mushroom Kingdom too Dinosaur Land too therefore y'all require to banking concern tally out this Super Mario map from Duncan Graham. This interactive map re-imagines the public every bit an 8-bit map inwards the fashion of Nintendo's classic game, consummate alongside golden coins too mushrooms.

Accompanying the map is a keen 'how-to' guide on how the map was created with Mapbox Studio. It's worth reading the article if y'all desire to acquire almost importing country or H2O beginning files into Mapbox Studio, how to add together custom elements to your map too how to society layers.


This yr at that spot has been a seat out of actually keen mapped visualizations of New York taxi data. This latest map visualizes taxi traffic from JFK too LGA airports during the 2013 vacation flavour (Nov 15th to Dec 31st).

The NYC Taxi Holiday Visualization animates taxi journeys from New York's airports over the class of a calendar month too half. As the animation plays y'all tin laissez passer on notice persuasion the animated tracks of thousands of private cab journeys taken from JFK too LGA airports to all parts of the city.


The Solar Eclipse Finder is an Esri map that displays the path of by too hereafter solar eclipses for whatsoever place on Earth.

The tool couldn't last simpler to use. Just click on the map too by solar eclipses at the selected place are shown on the map inwards greenish too hereafter eclipse are shown inwards blue. If y'all mouse-over the path of a solar eclipse y'all tin laissez passer on notice persuasion details inwards the map side-bar.

The details on each eclipse include the date, fourth dimension too the duration of the solar eclipse. The Solar Eclipse Finder includes the paths of 905 solar eclipses from 1601 to 2200.