This yr is the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, the largest battle of World War I on the Western Front. It took house betwixt 1 July as well as xviii Nov 1916 as well as to a greater extent than than a meg men were wounded or killed.
The Living Legacies Engagement Centre at Queen's University Belfast has released a even out map of the battle, looking inward detail at the telephone substitution events involving the Irish Gaelic Raised Divisions (36th Ulster & 16th Irish). 4dSomme uses the Esri Story Map library to explore the history of the battle, the importance of field-surveyors & cartographers to the battle as well as the telephone substitution events involving the Irish Gaelic Raised Divisions.
This even out map makes swell utilisation of modern 3d aerial maps of the River Somme overlaid amongst vintage military machine maps to plot the advances as well as retreats of the Irish Gaelic Raised Divisions during the battle. Vintage photographs as well as Google Street View imagery are also used throughout to illustrate to a greater extent than or less of the of import locations inward the battle.
The in conclusion interactive map inward 4dSomme allows y'all to thought a pose out of the vintage military machine maps overlaid on endure on of a 3d map of the region. This map also allows y'all to overlay the changing positions of the British as well as German linguistic communication front end lines on endure on of the vintage military machine maps.
Back inward Jan Emy Analytics released the Building Heights inward London map. They convey at in 1 lawsuit released a novel interactive map which incredibly shows the heights of most all buildings inward England.
Building Heights inward England uses information from the Environment Agency's open LIDAR data to color edifice footprints inward all of England past times the pinnacle of each building. You tin dismiss utilisation the map's search utilisation to zoom the map to whatever place inward the country. You tin dismiss as well as then click on whatever edifice on the map to abide by out its exact pinnacle as well as its expanse size.
The Building Heights inward England map also provides a statistical breakdown of edifice pinnacle information for England's endure on 25 urban areas. If y'all pick out 1 of these urban areas from the map bill of fare y'all tin dismiss thought information inward the map sidebar on the pose out of buildings inward the area, the density of buildings as well as a histogram which shows a breakdown of all buildings inward the expanse past times height.
Esri has released a swell cascading Story Map exploring the achievements of the geographer, naturalist as well as explorer Alexander von Humboldt. In Alexander von Humboldt's Whole basis Vision Esri uses vintage maps, 3d maps as well as historical images to assist explicate the orbit as well as importance of Humboldt's discoveries inward South America.
The even out map looks inward detail at Humboldt's test to climb Ecuador's Chimborazo Mountain as well as his exploration of the Orinoco River. As y'all progress through the even out map Humboldt's achievements, observations as well as contributions to scientific discipline are illustrated amongst historical maps from the David Rumsey Collection, Humboldt's ain diagrams as well as Esri's interactive maps.
The Esri even out map of Humboldt's Whole basis Vision concludes amongst a in conclusion department which explores the legacy of Humboldt's function as well as his influence on other scientists, writers as well as statesmen.
