This calendar week saw the unloose of ii real good designed interactive conditions maps, VentuSky together with MeteoEarth.
VentuSky allows you lot to stance a mapped forecast of the conditions for whatever place inwards the populace for over a calendar week ahead. One of the nigh impressive features of VentuSky is the current of air speed pick which visualizes current of air direction & speed on the map alongside animated streamlines. As good every bit current of air forecasts the map allows you lot to stance forecasts for temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, air pressure level together with snowfall cover.
You tin besides stance animated current of air direction together with temperature forecasts on a 3d globe, courtesy of MeteoEarth. The globe provides worldwide temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, current of air together with air pressure level forecasts using information from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
Another impressive 3d map released this calendar week visualizes baseball game domicile runs on summit of a 3d model of San Diego's Petco Park. The Petco Homers map shows where all the domicile runs inwards the 2015 flavor were scored.
You tin filter the domicile runs shown on the map past times squad together with past times fourth dimension of day. You tin rotate together with zoom the map to discovery the best angles. The map fifty-fifty includes a publish of quick links which volition rotate the map to the umpire's view, the stance from right-field, or the views from the Omni or Marriot Hotels.
One of my favorite maps this calendar week uses the Leaflet mapping library to render a consummate visual guide to the taxonomy of life. Lifemap is an interactive map which allows you lot to explore the taxonomic classification of over 800,000 dissimilar species.
The map industrial plant similar other interactive maps - every bit you lot zoom inwards on the map to a greater extent than special is revealed. With Lifemap this agency that every bit you lot zoom inwards on a taxa the groups inside that classification are revealed. In this way you lot tin deport on zooming into the map together with the tree of life until private species are revealed.
The 'pro' version of Lifemap, provides an exhaustive National Center for Biotechnology Information taxonomy (more than 1.1 meg taxa) together with links to the NCBI webpage for each taxa.
