This calendar week I was rattling impressed yesteryear 2 place based web-documentaries. One was Be Norilsk, a fascinating trace of piece of occupation concern human relationship of the history of the world's most northerly city, Norilsk inwards Siberia. The other is Sons of Gallipoli, an trace of piece of occupation concern human relationship of the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War.
Both purpose place information inwards unlike ways. Be Norilsk uses a 3d map of the urban heart to exhibit the increment of Norilsk during the Twentieth Century. Sons of Gallipoli, on the other hand, uses a beautifully designed custom map to exhibit telephone substitution locations during the infamous battle.
I was too rattling impressed this calendar week with Mimi Onuoha's Pathways project. Four unlike groups of people agreed to percentage 1 month's worth of mobile outcry place together with message information amongst Mimi. She hence develop most mapping their movements for that month.
Mimi Onuoha uses the 4 tracking maps to essay together with translate the information to encounter what she tin dismiss infer most the lives of the individuals tracked. On each map you lot tin dismiss click on the 'insights' together with 'conclusions' buttons to expose what Mimi thinks the information reveals most the 4 tracked groups together with the individuals inside those groups.
This was too unopen to other calendar week when Mapzen created unopen to astounding maps. In Escape from Mercator Mapzen acquaint a publish of experimental Tangram maps which genuinely don't purpose the ubiquitous Web Mercator projection.
Among the to a greater extent than experimental map projections inwards the Mapzen weblog post is an Inception map projection (which looked at final week), a Katamari projection (pictured above), a psychedelic wavy map projection together with a 2nd to 3d transitional projection.
