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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Maps Of The Week


Mapillary, the crowd-sourced alternative to Street View, has added the selection to stance a 3D indicate cloud model for every place inwards the the world - where Mapillary imagery exists. The indicate cloud models are built from all the photos submitted to Mapillary closed to a selected location.

You tin read to a greater extent than nearly the novel 3D indicate cloud model selection on the Mapillary blog. However, if you lot desire to dive forthwith in, become to Mapillary, click on the map in addition to opened upward a photo. When you lot stance a photograph inwards Mapillary you lot tin at nowadays lead the 'Show indicate cloud' to stance the 3D model. You tin zoom inwards in addition to out inwards the model using your mouse-wheel. Press shift in addition to drag on the model to scope closed to the 3D indicate cloud.


Windyty, the animated weather condition map, is at nowadays an animated 3D globe. Windyty shows electrical current in addition to forecast weather condition conditions across the world.

By default Windyty at nowadays displays its animated weather condition layers on a 3D globe. If you lot prefer the mapped version you lot tin click on the gear icon in addition to plough off the 3D fashion inwards the settings. The settings card too allows you lot to modify the temperature from Centigrade to Fahrenheit in addition to to modify the background map layer.

The onscreen card allows you lot to suit the weather condition layer that is animated on the map. These options include wind, temperature, clouds, waves, snowfall in addition to pressure.


Mapping Ten Years of Fatal Traffic Accidents is an interactive map showing every unmarried fatal traffic accident inwards the U.S. from 2004 to 2013.

When zoomed out the map presents a heatmap stance showing the locations where the most fatal traffic accidents convey occurred. When you lot zoom inwards map markers seem showing the place of each private fatal accident. This agency that you lot tin zoom on whatever metropolis or town inwards the USA to stance a detailed map of where accidents occurred locally.

When you lot zoom inwards on the map selection controls too seem which let you lot to filter the accidents shown yesteryear contributing factors (alcohol, speeding in addition to driver distraction). The markers are too colored on the map to exhibit who was killed inwards each accident (driver, passenger, pedestrian etc).