My favorite interactive map this calendar week was Esri's A Hillshade Everyone Can Use. Esri Story Maps tin hold out a picayune formulaic as well as thence they don't characteristic rattling ofttimes inwards my weekly round-ups. However this introduction to hill-shade maps as well as to Esri's own next generation hillshade layer is beautifully pose together.
The map compares Esri's novel multi-directional hillshading to traditional hillshading (swipe left & correct on the map to compare quondam amongst new). It besides provides roughly neat examples of how a hillshade layer tin furnish a clearer context to topographical map features as well as other mapped data. In item at that topographic point is a neat event map showing how a hillshade layer reveals roughly of the effects the landscape tin cause got on air current turbine placement.
This calendar week I actually besides liked NYPL Lab's Street View, Then & Now: New York City's Fifth Avenue. This picayune application allows you lot to cause got a virtual stroll downward Fifth Avenue inwards Street View spell comparison today's New York to photos taken at the firstly of the Twentieth Century.
The application was designed to promote the New York Public Library's unloose of to a greater extent than than 180,000 items into the populace domain inwards its Digital Collections. The items include maps, photographs, letters, posters, manuscripts, canvass music, drawings as well as other texts, all of which you lot tin download inwards high-resolution as well as without restriction from the Digital Collections website.
Maps made amongst Google Fusion Tables besides don't ofttimes teach far into the Maps of the Week post. I'll brand an exception this calendar week for CityMetric's map of U.K. machine ownership. Mapping census information doesn't ever pay off but this CityMetric map clearly shows the geography of machine ownership inwards England & Wales.
The CityMetric map of machine ownership shows that inwards towns as well as cities across England & Wales many people cause got decided to alive without a car. If you lot await at whatever U.K. metropolis on the map (only England & Wales is covered) you lot volition run across that the lowest per centum of machine ownership is inwards inner metropolis neighborhoods. As you lot motion out, into the metropolis suburbs, machine ownership grows. Once you lot operate out into the rural areas as well as thence virtually every menage owns a car,
