This calendar week I was impressed past times a yoke of maps that repackaged previously mapped visualizations.
First-up - Esri has created a exhibit map using Windy-JS. Wind Animation allows you lot to persuasion global air current conditions animated on a slippy map. I'm certain you lot get got all seen earth.nullschool.net's gorgeous animated globe visualizing weather condition conditions roughly the world.
Esri has at i time taken the same weather condition information from the Global Forecast System used inwards the map as well as created Windy-JS. Two Windy-JS re-purposes the weather condition information thence that it tin hold upwards overlaid inwards a sheet chemical cistron on pinnacle of a variety of mapping APIs.
The Racial Dot Map was i of my favorite Google Maps of final year. It is at i time likewise possible to persuasion the same information overlaid on an OpenStreetMap.
The Racial Dot Map is a fascinating visualization of the geographic distribution, population density, as well as racial diverseness of the USA. The map uses information from the 2010 USA census, alongside each of the 308,745,538 dots representing the place of i American.
If you lot prefer your underlying map to hold upwards open-sourced as well as then you lot tin at i time persuasion the information on a Leaflet.js OpenStreetMap, called the Racial Dotmap Site.
Now on to some novel maps. The WWF Species Tracker is a Google Map dedicated to tracking the movements of a pose out of animals roughly the world. The map includes the tracks of a pose out of polar bears, marine turtles, yellowfin tuna, bowhead whales, jaguars as well as a narwahl whale.
You tin select each private beast on the map as well as non alone persuasion the animal's movements exactly read a magazine of the animal's drive as well as conduct over the final few months. Each rails includes fourth dimension stamps along its path, allowing you lot to come across when it passed through each location, as well as a pose out of 'information' markers providing analysis of the animal's progress.
The Transit Map of San Francisco MTA is a real-time faux map of San Francisco's bus, streetcar, as well as tube services, based on the MTA timetables. The map animates the movements of the city's buses, streetcars as well as tube trains on a Google Map.
The vehicle movements on the map are determined past times the timetables provided inwards the GTFS dataset of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. The map industrial plant past times plugging the city's GTFS dataset into Vasile Cotovanu's Transit Map library.
Vasile has likewise released the code for the GTFS plug-in every bit well. The code converts a prepare of GTFS files into a SQLite database as well as the GeoJSONs needed past times the Transit Map library. So if you lot desire to exercise your ain faux animated map of a city's transit network all you lot ask to exercise is to choose grip of the city's GTFS dataset, use GTFS-viz to exercise the database as well as GeoJSON's as well as and then plug the information into the Transit Map library. Voila you lot get got your real ain animated faux transit map.
