This calendar week a duet of rattling interesting Google Street View projects were released. Jumeirah Inside is an incredibly good designed Street View tour of the Burj Al Arab Hotel inwards Dubai. The most impressive expression of this tour is the seamless integration of video on peak of Street View's 360 flat panoramic imagery.
If you lot pick out the Street View of the hotel's foyer you lot tin persuasion the Cascade Waterfall inwards action. There are 3 buttons beneath the waterfall which genuinely let you lot to persuasion the waterfall's dissimilar outflow shows inwards video on peak of Street View. Select ane of the numbers as well as you lot tin persuasion the selected video of the outflow on peak of the Street View image.
The other Street View projection released this calendar week involves panoramic imagery of the world's largest model railway, Miniatur Wunderland inwards Hamburg, Germany.
To capture panoramic imagery of this miniature globe Google worked alongside Ubilabs to laid minuscule Street View cameras mounted on tiny vehicles. You tin explore this novel miniature Street View projection on Google Maps. However the best house to persuasion these novel tiny Street View scenes is on this dedicated Miniatur Wunderland Street View website.
This calendar week I too genuinely liked the NYC Felonies Map, inwards which the New York skyline is dominated past times a serial of skyscrapers of crime.
The NYC Felonies Map shows the rates of the 7 major felonies for each urban heart as well as mortal block inwards New York City. The felonies are shown at the centre of each street segment past times stacking map markers for each felony. The taller the stack the to a greater extent than the crime. Zoom inwards on the map to persuasion each stack inwards to a greater extent than detail.
In the 1980's moving-picture demo WarGames a high schoolhouse pupil hacks into a supercomputer as well as nearly starts a total scale global nuclear war. The reckoner is called the War Operation Plan Response as well as inwards the cinema NORAD accept a huge wall-sized dashboard to interface alongside the computer.
Alan Walker, Jeffrey Shaffer, Anya A'Hearn as well as Chris DeMartini accept collaborated to recreate the War Operations Plan Response dashboard, consummate alongside a faithful rendering of the WarGames map (animated nuclear weapons et al). You tin read to a greater extent than nigh how they managed to recreate the WOPR dashboard inwards Tableau inwards this Re-creating WarGames alongside Tableau as well as Mapbox weblog post.
You tin too persuasion the U.S. WOPR dashboard as well as Russia's ain version of a super military machine computer. The map used inwards both of these WarGames dashboards was created past times Anya A’Hearn inwards Mapbox Studio. You tin persuasion the WarGames Map full-screen here. You tin too cheque out the WarGames map alongside a polar projection.
