In responding to yesterday's tragic bomb attacks inward Brussels the New York Times as well as the Washington Post accept both posted satellite maps of unopen to of the locations which were most affected past times the terrorist attacks.
Both newspapers accept opted to practise static maps from satellite images of the city. They accept also both used masking effects to highlight locations on the map. On the satellite images all areas, apart from the selected buildings, are masked - thence that the featured buildings clearly stand upwards out on the maps.
It is possible to practise the same masking final result amongst interactive maps. For event you lot could role Vasile Cotovanu's polygon masking wizard Geomask to practise a like map amongst the Google Maps API. Using Geomask it took me close 5 minutes to create an event map highlighting the European Commission Headquarters inward Brussels.
This polygon masking final result industrial plant peculiarly good inward Brussels because the metropolis has Google's 'birds eye' persuasion aerial imagery, which provides an oblique persuasion of buildings that you lot tin flaming thence highlight on a map.
You tin flaming practise a like final result amongst Mapbox by inverting a polygon shape. If you lot prefer Leaflet maps you lot tin flaming role the leaflet.maskcanvas plug-in.
