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Friday, February 12, 2021

Animated Race Maps


Back inward 2013 the New York Times created an impressive animated mapped visualization of the America's Cup Finale betwixt the USA together with New Zealand. The America’s Cup Finale: Oracle’s Path to Victory showed the progress of the race betwixt the 2 yachts from outset to finish.

The America's Cup 2013 Finale: An Animated Map is a lovingly created together with accurate reproduction of the NYT's map using Leaflet.js. The map allows you lot to replay the whole finale betwixt the 2 sailing teams. The map fifty-fifty includes the air current speed together with air current administration for the whole race.

If you lot similar this animated map visualization together with are interested inward creating a similar animated race map thus you lot tin dismiss sentiment the entire America's Cup projection on GitHub.


Over 35,000 people competed inward in conclusion year's Berlin Marathon. You tin dismiss encounter how every 1 of those competitors fared inward an animated map of the race, created yesteryear the Berliner Morgenpost.

The Berlin Marathon 2016 map animates every unmarried runner inward the Berlin Marathon on exceed of a map of the race's route. As the animation plays out you lot tin dismiss scout all 35,827 of the athletes equally they consummate the course.

The animated map of the Berlin Marathon 2016 was created using the PixiJS HTML5 engine.

If you lot are interested inward mapped visualizations of sports thus you lot powerfulness likewise similar The New Age of Sports Visualization.