Zeit Online as well as Google Maps
IN 2011 Zeit Online used Google Maps to give away the place information captured past times mobile phones. The map animated the movements of High German Green political party politician, Malte Spit on a Google Map, for a vi calendar month period. Verräterisches Handy was non entirely a swell map it also proved to hold upwards 1 of the most effective articles inward raising the awareness of mobile users to the place information captured past times their phones as well as past times the outcry companies.
In 2011, afterward the Japanese seismic sea wave as well as the resulting meltdown at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Zeit Online published a Google Map visualizing how many Americans alive close nuclear ability plants.
The American Nuclear Power Plants Map includes a distance slider tool that allows yous to visualize how many people alive within different distances of a nuclear ability plant. For example, the voluntary evacuation zone roughly the Fukushima ability found is xviii miles. Using the Zeit-Online map nosotros uncovering that a full of 16,040,474 Americans alive inside xviii miles of a nuclear plant.
In 2012 Zeit Online created a like map for its High German readers. The German Nuclear Power Plants Map shows how many people alive unopen to High German nuclear ability plants. This map also includes a distance slider tool that lets yous visualize how many Germans alive inside dissimilar distances of a nuclear ability plant.
Zeit Online as well as OpenStreetMap
Yesterday the MapBox Blog published a post on Zeit Online's switch to custom made OpenStreetMaps. The post is an interesting exam of the blueprint decisions Zeit Online has taken inward their novel hold back interactive maps. These blueprint choices include the purpose of Zeit Online fonts for map labels as well as the lean purpose of map labels to brand infinite for information on information visualizations.
The MapBox post also includes links to a issue of examples of Zeit-Online's purpose of interactive maps. These include an interesting map showing how doctor’s offices are concentrated inward affluent neighborhoods of High German cities, a map displaying the tracks of all hurricanes betwixt 2008 as well as 2013 as well as a map showing the UK's nuclear ability found structure plans.
The MapBox spider web log post of course of report does non explicate the reasons behind Zeit Online's conclusion to drib the purpose of the Google Maps API for MapBox as well as OpenStreetMap. We tin likely infer that the greater liberty inward blueprint command offered past times OpenStreetMap contributed inward some component to the newspaper's decision.
I've written before nigh how I call back that Google has been real irksome over the final 2 years inward developing the Google Maps API. I strongly believe that Google's recent concentration on Google Maps Engine as well as fail of the Google Maps API is causing map developers to switch to other mapping platforms.
Of course of report Google may non assist nigh this. Google Maps Engine generates income for Google as well as also agency that they direct maintain access to all the place information uploaded past times Google Maps Engine users.
