The Mapbox Blog is continuing to showcase nifty maps built using Turf.js. Last calendar week ane of my favorite maps was a road planner using Capital Bikeshare stations. That map used Turf.js amongst summit information to render an amazing 3d summit nautical chart along a bike route.
This calendar week the Mapbox Blog continued to demonstrate the geospatial processing abilities of Turf amongst an animated map of the Iditarod, an annual sled domestic dog race which takes house inwards Alaska. Time Travel Across the Iditarod amongst Turf replays the whole race, allowing yous to follow the progress of each of the domestic dog sleds over the degree of the xv twenty-four lx minutes catamenia race.
CartoDB has also been busy amongst novel characteristic releases. This calendar week they announced CartoDB Heat Maps. The novel estrus maps selection inwards CartoDB leverages the ability of the Torque library, which allows developers to efficiently homecoming together with issue really large datasets to the client.
Torque is likely best known for its temporal capabilities, which ability all those really pop animated Twitter maps that yous conduct maintain no dubiety seen (for illustration this Super Bowl Twitter map). The novel CartoDB Heat Maps options tin dismiss also purpose Torque's temporal abilities to practise animated estrus maps.
These novel animated estrus maps are of degree really visually engaging. However, the best illustration of a map using CartoDB Heat Maps that I've seen together with therefore far is this Placenames Heatmap. The map allows yous to sentiment a estrus map of words used inwards U.S. of A. place-names.
Type a discussion into the map together with it searches U.S. of A. place-names together with creates a estrus map of the results. In the screenshot to a higher house yous tin dismiss come across the results of searching for place-names, including the words 'silver' together with 'gold'.
This calendar week I was also impressed amongst Events Visualization, an interesting agency to animate a time-line of events on a Google Map. The tool tin dismiss assistance yous practise a mapped visualization of events across fourth dimension together with infinite amongst markers indicating the magnitude of events.
The tool comes amongst an interesting demo map visualizing Islamic terrorist attacks unopen to the globe since 1983. The map animates through each gear upwards on inwards chronological order, amongst 3 unlike speeds of playback. The cherry-red round out markers are scaled to correspond the issue of deaths involved inwards each attack.
Finally, for a combat of fun, yous mightiness also desire to conduct maintain a expect at Baaam.international, a Leaflet map which allows yous to describe on a blank map. Actually the map isn't alone blank every bit yous conduct maintain to portion your sheet amongst other artists signing-in from unopen to the world.
Once yous conduct maintain zoomed into a blank department of the map yous tin dismiss select the 'draw' tool to kickoff drawing straight on the map. When yous conduct maintain finished your sketch, if yous similar what yous conduct maintain drawn, yous tin dismiss select the 'share' push to catch a URL which provides a direct link to your drawing on the map.
