There were 2 existent stand-out maps this week, NASA's 3d map of the Vesta asteroid and Refugee Republic's map of Domiz Refugee Camp.
Domiz Refugee Camp inwards Iraqi Kurdistan was established inwards Apr 2012 to host Syrian Kurds. The campsite was originally built to menage 38,135 people. It is currently domicile to 57,953 refugees. As the set out of refugees has grown the campsite has gradually transformed from a temporary refuge into a makeshift town,
Refugee Republic has created an online documentary close the camp, using the Leaflet.js mapping platform to plow a mitt drawn map into a fully interactive map. You tin give the sack click on the colored roads as well as arrows on the map to larn to a greater extent than close life inwards Domiz Camp. The tour includes videos of the camp, information on how the campsite as well as shelters were constructed as well as the stories of around of the refugees instantly living inwards Domiz Camp.
In 2011 the DAWN spacecraft visited Vesta to collect information close this of import asteroid. You tin give the sack instantly explore Vesta yourself using NASA's Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta.
Vesta is i of the largest asteroids inwards the asteroid belt, alongside a hateful diameter of 525 kilometres. The Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta allows you lot to thought the asteroid every bit a 2nd or 3d map. The map itself seems to combine an Esri map alongside a Cesium WebGL globe.
The 3d map includes a set out of information overlays which supply dissimilar views of the mineral make-up of Vesta. The 2nd map thought includes a global (equirectangular) thought of Vesta, a N pole thought as well as a due south pole view. It also includes a set out of tools which allow you lot to stair out distance on Vesta as well as to thought summit profiles (especially handy if you lot desire to visualize the depth of Vesta's craters).
One of the joys of maps is that they allow you lot to explore places that you lot mightiness never see inwards real-life. Having already explored an asteroid as well as a refugee campsite why non also cause got a tour of Robben Island. Google has released Street View imagery for Robben Island inwards South Africa.
Robben Island is most famous every bit the prison theatre where Nelson Mandela was held for eighteen of the 27 years he served behind bars. The best agency to explore the novel Street View imagery is on the Robben Island Museum page on Google's Cultural Institute website. The Robben Island Museum entry includes a guided tour of the prison theatre past times erstwhile political prisoners. The Robben Island Prison Tour is a guided tour of the prison theatre using the novel Google Maps Street View imagery as well as narration from erstwhile political prisoner, Vusumsi Mcongo.
The tour includes the thought prisoners would cause got on arriving at the island, a thought from within a guard tower, the infirmary ward, the do yard as well as Nelson Mandela's ain 2m x 2m cell. Most of these Street View scenes are accompanied past times videos inwards which Vusumsi Mcongo explains what life was similar every bit a prisoner on Robben Island.
