The big interactive mapping tidings this calendar week was the liberate of the Mapbox GL API. Mapbox GL has some rattling powerful options for dynamic styling together with map interactivity on the client-side. I'm certain that inward the close time to come nosotros volition encounter lots of Maps of the Week built on elevation of Mapbox GL.
Mapbox has begun to add together some instance maps to the API documentation. Among the well-nigh interesting of these maps is this satellite persuasion map featuring video playback on a map.
While Mapbox GL may indicate to the time to come of interactive mapping CartoDB's Torque library is behind some of the impressive maps of the present. Torque powered maps direct keep regularly featured inward Google Maps of the Week posts over the end ii years. Of belatedly at that topographic point has been also many Twitter information based maps created amongst Torque for my liking.
That's why I was pleased to encounter 3 Torque powered maps this calendar week that used other, to a greater extent than interesting, data. Global Terrorism, 2013 was in all likelihood the well-nigh interesting of these 3 maps. This map uses Torque together with CartoDB's Odyssey.js library to animate a year's worth of terrorist attacks closed to the world.
The other ii maps were How INXS Conquered the World, a Torque powered Leaflet map which plots the touring schedule of the Australian band, together with a serial of animated maps of New York's Citibike data.
Another map which impressed me this calendar week was from Taxi Stockholm. This heat-map of a year's worth of taxi trip information is combined amongst Google's Places library to furnish an interesting insight into the city's hot-spots.
Taxi Trails has taken the information from all of Stockholm's GPS enabled cabs together with used the Google Maps API to exercise a heat-map of taxi destinations inward the Swedish capital. Taxi Stockholm believe that this heat-map is non entirely a beautiful information visualization merely it tin also live on useful for tourists visiting the city.
If you lot are visiting Stockholm for the get-go fourth dimension you lot tin purpose the map to notice pop hot-spots inward the city. For example, if you lot are looking for somewhere to become on a Sat night, you lot tin refine the map to demo the well-nigh pop destinations for Stockholm cabs inward the level on a Sat nighttime together with hence purpose the 'Explore this area' selection to notice bars together with restaurants nearby.
