This calendar week ProPublica released an impressive mapped visualization of the trial of climate alter together with fossil oil & gas exploration inwards the nation of Louisiana.
Southern Louisiana is losing xvi foursquare miles a twelvemonth to the Gulf of Mexico. At the middle of ProPublica's map, Losing Ground, is a serial of timeline visualizations of historical aerial imagery. These timelines allow you lot to expose the loss of soil inwards Louisiana past times comparison introduce solar daytime aerial imagery alongside aerial imagery going dorsum to the 1930's.
Accompanying the aerial imagery are a serial of interviews of people living together with working inwards the affected areas. These interviews are supported past times well files together with photos. In combination the audio, photos, interviews together with aerial imagery of Louisiana's soil loss render a powerful concern human relationship of this ongoing environmental disaster.
Last twelvemonth Dave MacLean, from the GIS Faculty at the Centre of Geographic Sciences of the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), released a map of photos taken from the International Space Station.
Our World from the ISS is an ESRI map of photos, taken from the ISS posted past times @Cmdr_Hadfield together with @AstroMarshburn on Twitter. The map allows you lot to persuasion thumbnails of roughly genuinely amazing photos of globe taken from the ISS.
Dave MacLean has directly released a novel map roofing photos from the ISS Missions forty together with 41. All the photos are mapped to the locations shown inwards the views of the globe depicted. The map may non intermission whatever novel Blue Planet inwards the world of interactive cartography only it definitely wins the weekly respect for the almost shared map on social media.
This calendar week I was also quite impressed past times the Street View treasure hunt game The Day Google Street View Stood Still.
This Street View game uses the Web Audio API to render well clues to attention you lot expose a release of hidden items. In the game you lot are teleported to a Street View place somewhere inwards the world. The object of the game is to follow the well clues to expose objects nearby. The game is a form of 'hot or cold' searching game, every bit you lot teach closer to the right finish the well clues teach louder. If you lot go inwards the incorrect direction together with hence the sounds becomes quieter.
The Day Google Street View Stood Still has a release of levels. When you lot complete a degree you lot are told how many steps you lot cause got taken together with how long it took you lot to accomplish the right destination. If you lot brand i of the acme 10 quickest times you lot tin fifty-fifty add together your cite to the high-score table.
