There bring been a lot of maps released this calendar month commemorating the 25th anniversary of the autumn of the Berlin Wall. Among my favorites was this map from Castilian radio & boob tube broadcaster RTVE. The map investigates the 138 victims who were killed trying to cross the Wall during the Cold War.
During the 28 years of the Wall's beingness 121 men, viii women as well as nine children were killed piece trying to cross into West Berlin. Caidos en el Muro uses the Google Maps API to plot the locations where each of the 138 victims were killed piece trying to cross the edge betwixt East as well as West Germany.
Google took a dissimilar approach to their commemorations of the reunification of Germany. 25 years afterward the autumn of the Berlin Wall Google interviewed twenty-five young Germans to honour out what life is similar inward the novel Germany. Google's #Deutschland25 features twenty-five interviews alongside individuals who bring grown-up inward Germany's Generation Mauerfall.
In the interviews managing director as well as journalist Bettina Blümner questions twenty-five extraordinary immature Germans well-nigh their lives, hopes as well as dreams for the future. #Deutschland25 also includes a prominent Google Map which allows y'all to sentiment comments that other Germans bring left on the website as well as to run out your ain comments well-nigh life as well as the of import social issues inward Deutschland today.
The Berliner Morgenpost has also created a novel map of Berlin which reveals a novel dividing trouble inward the city. How the S-Bahn Ring Divides the City is a map of the High German majuscule inward which the neighborhoods bring been colored to exhibit whether most of the inhabitants were born inward or exterior Berlin.
The map reveals that inside the S-Bahn vociferation inward every neighborhood, except Neu-Templhof, the bulk of the residents were born exterior Berlin. Outside the S-Bahn vociferation many of the neighborhoods are dominated past times native Berliners.
DataDraw is a JavaScript library for the Google Maps API which tin last used to visualize as well as animate large amounts of information on a Google Map using a canvass layer.
You tin sentiment the library inward activity on this impressive Wind Visualisation map. The map simulates current of air patterns on a styled Google Map. If y'all choose the 'animated style' option y'all tin sentiment a beautiful animated faux visualization of current of air patterns. You tin arrange the administration as well as pull of the current of air past times dragging the scarlet arrow inward the round down current of air control.
