CartoDB has released CartoDB Heat Maps. The novel oestrus maps choice inwards CartoDB leverages the ability of the Torque library, which allows developers to efficiently homecoming as well as give away really large datasets to the client.
Torque is in all probability best known for its temporal capabilities, which ability all those really pop animated Twitter maps that yous cause got no incertitude seen (for lawsuit this Super Bowl Twitter map). The novel CartoDB Heat Maps options tin forcefulness out besides role Torque's temporal abilities to exercise animated oestrus maps.
These novel animated oestrus maps are of shape really visually engaging. However, the best lawsuit of a map using CartoDB Heat Maps that I've seen as well as hence far is this Placenames Heatmap. The map allows yous to thought a oestrus map of words used inwards U.S.A. of America house names.
Type a give-and-take into the map as well as it searches US placenames as well as creates a oestrus map of the results. In the screenshot at the meridian of this post yous tin forcefulness out encounter the results of searching for placenames, including the words 'silver' as well as 'gold'.
You tin forcefulness out thought an lawsuit of an animated oestrus map on the Chicago Lord's Day Times. The Times has taken information from the role of Chicago's snowfall plows during the recent blizzards to exercise an animated oestrus map showing Chicago's streets beingness cleared on the 1st as well as 2d February.
Another lawsuit of an animated oestrus map is Farmer Heatmap. This i lets yous picket an animated oestrus map of a farmer plowing, sowing or harvesting his fields (I'm non certain which).