For the instant calendar week running the Maps of the Week round-up includes a Dorling Cartogram - this calendar week inwards the flat of a mapped visualization of the world's elevation tidings stories. Unfiltered.news is an interactive cartogram of the world's news. The map provides a swell agency to explore which tidings stories are beingness reported each 24-hour interval or hence the world.
Unfiltered.news visualizes the elevation 100 tidings stories from Google News for each reason on the map. If you lot select a country's circle on the map the elevation tidings stories from the reason volition charge inwards the map sidebar in addition to the topics volition appear inwards the circle.
The size of the words hollo for the give away of times the topic has been mentioned inwards the news. If you lot select a topic from the map the tidings stories relating to that topic volition hence appear inwards the map sidebar. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 timeline volition besides appear which allows you lot to explore the tidings trends for that topic over time.
This calendar week I was besides actually impressed amongst a beautiful novel map of Mars. Google Mars was released 10 years agone this week. Google Mars withal exists exactly these days you lot tin besides access a 3d map of Mars past times zooming all the agency out inwards the principal Google Maps (switch to 3d sentiment in addition to zoom all the agency out - the pick to switch to maps of the Luna or Mars should hence appear inwards the 'Explore' panel).
Alternatively you lot tin besides explore Mars inwards a beautiful novel topographical map of the crimson planet. Kenneth Field's (Is There) Life on Mars is a gorgeous relief map which allows you lot to explore the surface of Mars in addition to larn nearly some of the planet's most smasher geological features.
As good equally beingness a beautiful looking map (Is There) Life on Mars includes a wealth of information nearly many of the craters on Mars in addition to nearly human spacecraft landings on the planet. The map's information panel besides intriguingly refers to a hidden chemical gene on the map.
Another beautiful looking laid upward of maps is Empty Pipes's Isochrone Driving Maps of the World.
Using OpenStreetMap mapping information in addition to the Graphopper opened upward origin routing library Empty Pipes has created a serial of maps for towns in addition to cites or hence the world. The maps visualize the driving times when starting from the middle of each of the mapped cities.
Empty Pipes besides makes a give away of interesting observations based on his ischrone maps of driving times. For example he notices how many of the driving fourth dimension maps for cities inwards the the US guide maintain a distinctive pyramid shape. One result of the grid patterns of many American cities is that it takes much longer to campaign 'along the diagonal than to go direct due north in addition to south'.
