Taxi Stockholm has created a novel sort of tourist map. H5N1 map which uses information from millions of taxi trips taken inwards Stockholm to position the city's favorite destinations.
Taxi Trails has taken the information from all of Stockholm's GPS enabled cabs as well as used the Google Maps API to exercise a heat-map of taxi destinations inwards the Swedish capital. Taxi Stockholm believe that this heat-map is non exclusively a beautiful information visualization only it tin likewise endure useful for tourists visiting the city.
The persuasion of visualizing taxi destinations on a map isn't new. For event we've lately seen a position out of mapped visualizations of New York taxi data. For example, Hubcab is is a groovy map of New York taxi data, visualizing the destinations as well as pick-up points of 170 1000000 taxi trips.
Taxi Stockholm's differs from Hubcab notwithstanding inwards that it uses the taxi information equally a starting quest to discovery the secrets of the city. If you lot are visiting Stockholm for the showtime fourth dimension you lot tin purpose the map to discovery pop hot-spots inwards the city.
For example, if you lot are looking for somewhere to larn on a Sabbatum night, you lot tin refine the map to demonstrate the virtually pop destinations for Stockholm cabs inwards the eve at the weekend. You tin thus zoom inwards on a hot-spot on the map as well as select the 'Explore this area' option. This volition thus drib markers on the map showing you lot bars as well as restaurants inwards the area. You tin fifty-fifty range out the expanse for yourself using Street View to come across if hold back likes a skilful house to visit.
