World Flags is a CartoDB map inwards which the cast of every province had been overlaid alongside the country's flag. This patchwork outcome appears to induce got been made past times creating a polygon for each province as well as and then filling the polygon alongside the right flag image.
The flag polygons are themselves overlaid on tiptop of Stamen's Watercolor map tiles.
Last twelvemonth the Van Gogh Map likewise used images for Earth areas on a basis map. This map was created alongside Mapbox GL (it hence needs a WebGL enabled browser to view) as well as uses a unlike technique to fill upwards inwards the Earth areas on the map.
Feature types on this map, such equally H2O as well as unlike types of Earth cover, are made upwards of map tiles created alongside textures taken from Van Gogh paintings. The final result is a map agency which you lot belike wouldn't desire to purpose real frequently exactly is a swell demonstrate of how tardily it is to exercise interesting map styles alongside Mapbox GL.
