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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Maps Of The Week


Today is Norway's Constitution Day. So meridian billing has to acquire to Verdens Gang's A Game of Norway. In 2014, to grade the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Norwegian constitution, the paper released this flush map to attention say the history behind the signing of the constitution.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Game of Kingdom of Norway is a beautifully designed flush map exploring together with explaining the historical events which eventually led to the signing of the Norwegian Constitution on May 17th 1814. The map animations together with narrative elements are made possible past times using skrollr, a parallax scrolling JavaScript library. Skrollr allows y'all to animate whatever CSS belongings of whatever chemical gene based on the horizontal scrollbar position. Using skrollr Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Game of Kingdom of Norway is able to displace or thus the background map picture together with animate the movements of the ships, troops together with other images on the map equally the user scrolls downward the page.


Mapzen has launched a gratis Vector Tile Service to complement their Tangram WebGL map renderer. The combination of vector tiles together with Tangram allows Mapzen to homecoming map tiles inwards real-time inwards the browser.

This agency that the map tiles tin sack live really dynamic. Check out some of the representative maps on the Tangram page. The Day / Night Map shows how colors together with edifice footprints tin sack live updated inwards real-time inwards the browser. The Tron Map shows how y'all tin sack apply animation to the map tiles (in this instance to exercise the outcome of moving vehicles on roads together with streets).

My favorite manner inwards the examples is this Cross Hatch map. I'm also rather fond of the Lego Style, made out of colored plastic brick textures. When panning or thus on these maps notice how the perspective on the 3d buildings modify depending on your betoken of view.


The Web Mercator projection is non really skilful when it comes to providing accurate maps of the Arctic together with Antarctic. Fortunately, however, in that location is right away some other solution for anyone who wants to exercise interactive maps of the Arctic. Arctic Web Map is a new Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server, together with a Leaflet-based customer library.

There are half dozen Arctic projections available, each using a Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area (LAEA) sentiment of the North Pole region. The Arctic Web Map tiles are compatible alongside Leaflet maps, when used alongside the Proj4JS together with Proj4Leaflet libraries. The map tiles are available to purpose gratis of accuse for low-traffic users. If y'all postulate high-traffic purpose together with then y'all should contact Arctic Web Map. 


Streets of London is a map of the City of London which allows y'all to uncovering how private London roads originally got their names. Click on a highlighted route on the map together with y'all tin sack notice out why the selected route is called what it is together with where its elevate originally came from.

There are some interesting themes inwards the names of London's streets. You tin sack conduct from these themes using the map bill of fare inwards the meridian right-hand corner of the map. When y'all plow some of the categories dorsum on (after deselecting) y'all tin sack larn a piddling to a greater extent than close the history behind the selected category.