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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Maps Of The Week


Brick Street View is an incredible transformation of Google Maps in addition to Street View into a Lego themed populace of plastic bricks.

Brick Street View is the piece of employment of Einar Öberg, the creator of the awesome Urban Jungle Street View, which allows yous to run across your street transformed into a jungle. Brick Street View makes piece of employment of the same undocumented depth information stored inwards Street View - alone this fourth dimension inwards social club to carry yous to Legoland. Both apps piece of employment the 3d depth information to create a depth map which tin live used to plot geometry in addition to sprites inwards the 3d infinite of the Street View panorama.

In Brick Street View the Google Maps Street View panoramas are pixelated to laissez passer them that Lego brick look. The images are in addition to thus enhanced amongst piffling Lego trees, cars in addition to other figures. Even the roads convey been transformed into a Lego base.


For a long fourth dimension I've been waiting for somebody to animate edifice historic menstruation information to create a visualization of a urban heart growing through time. That hold back is similar a shot over.

Amsterdam Growing Over Time is an incredible animated map which shows how the urban heart of Amsterdam has developed in addition to grown from a few houses inwards the 17th century into the dynamic urban heart it is today. Click on the play push clit in addition to picket equally the city's edifice footprints are added chronologically to the map based on each building's age.

The information for the buildings comes from the Construction in addition to Address Database - BAG. This database provides the historic menstruation of buildings throughout the Netherlands. Some of the buildings inwards the database are patently newer buildings which convey been built inwards the same location in addition to convey replaced older buildings. However Amsterdam has plenty historical buildings however standing for the animated map to furnish a pretty accurate moving-picture demo of how Amsterdam has grown over the centuries.


Flights Over Your Neighborhood is a rattling clever map which tin demo all the scheduled flights flying over your location in addition to the amount of dissonance pollution that yous volition suffer. Unfortunately the map alone industrial plant if your neighborhood is inwards Berlin. However, if yous don't alive inwards Berlin, the map is however fun to play with.

Enter your address into the application in addition to the map shows the actual routes of all the flights from Berlin airports that volition live flying over your neighborhood today. All the flights for the twenty-four hr menstruation are displayed on a 3D map past times altitude. The map is shown amongst an oblique persuasion which yous tin rotate to larn a existent feel of the height of each of the flights' paths over your home.

If yous pick out a flying path on the map yous tin persuasion details on the plane's estimated time, altitude, in addition to the amount of dissonance the private aircraft emits (measured inwards decibels). The scale beneath the map shows how much dissonance pollution yous tin await for the twenty-four hr menstruation inwards comparing to other areas inwards Berlin-Brandenburg.


Here's a novel map means to add together to your collection of favorite base of operations maps. I intend its rubber to assume that the Lichtenstein map is inspired past times the famous pop fine art painter in addition to non the German linguistic communication municipality of the same name.

The map emulates Roy Lichtenstein's piece of employment of thick outlines, bold colors in addition to copious dots. It's also the second map I've seen to successfully piece of employment the much maligned Comic Sans equally the font for the map labels.

The map is the piece of employment of Katie Kowalsky, a cartography pupil at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was designed inwards Mapbox Studio, the pop map blueprint tool, which was also used to create the The Woodcut MapSpace Station EarthThe Pencil Map and the The Pirate Map.