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Friday, May 21, 2021

Maps Of The Week


The Urban Fabric Map is a corking novel interactive map tool which allows you lot to compare side-by-side the edifice footprints of unlike cities to a greater extent than or less the world. Comparing the edifice footprints of cities inwards this agency tin unwrap interesting differences inwards the street layouts together with edifice densities of unlike cities across the globe.

The Urban Fabric Map uses OpenStreetMap edifice data. This map information is displayed using a custom created Mapbox style.

In the screenshot higher upwards I convey compared San Francisco amongst London. The comparing reveals the clear grid similar blueprint of San Francisco's streets compared to London's to a greater extent than organic street layout. H5N1 edifice count is also displayed higher upwards each of the 2 maps. This reveals that San Francisco has to a greater extent than or less 3 times every bit many buildings inwards the same sized surface area every bit London. This is despite the fact that the Golden Gate Park is a prominent characteristic on the San Francisco map.


If you've always dreamed of becoming a holding tycoon together with then you lot mightiness desire to exercise your real-estate skills on Next.Land. Next.Land is a multiplayer metropolis edifice game built on acme of an interactive map of the existent world. The object of the game is to purchase buildings, upgrade your properties together with earn a fortune from your rental returns. The amount game is scheduled for unloosen inwards early on 2007.

However you lot tin teach a sneak preview of the game on the Next.Land Demo map. In the demo game you lot tin explore thirty real-world locations on the interactive map together with expire familiar amongst the basic game-play features. The maps are built on OpenStreetMap together with SRTM data. Each of the locations characteristic 3d buildings which you lot tin purchase (if you lot convey plenty money). Unfortunately inwards this demo of the game you lot can't salvage your progress.


The Met Navigator is a wonderful indoor map of the Metropolitan Museum of Art inwards New York. It provides an independent floor-plan of the Met's Fifth Avenue museum..

One argue that the Met Navigator plant thence good is that the flat of especial shown on the map is subject on the zoom level. The to a greater extent than you lot zoom inwards on map the to a greater extent than especial is shown on the floor-plan. If you lot zoom inwards completely on a gallery you lot tin fifty-fifty sentiment pictures together with details on each of the private exhibits.

The map was created amongst the Meurs Navigator library. There is zip here, however, that you lot couldn't easily make using whatever of the other pop mapping platforms.