Applied Works has used WebGL to practise 3d maps of the climbing stages inward the Tour de France. Tour de French Republic - Mapping the Climbs currently has ii maps which yous tin halt view. One is a exhibit map of phase vii of the 2012 Tour de France. The other 1 is a map of phase ten inward this year's race.
Both maps include an tiptop nautical chart beneath the map, You tin halt mouse-over the tiptop nautical chart to run into the place of key events during the phase on the map. The maps themselves include contour lines too zoom controls. Panning the map takes a footling getting used to every bit it differs from the normal panning navigation of interactive maps.
If yous click too drag the map, rather than panning, the map rotates approximately the marked location. This allows yous to explore the 3d features of the map. If yous wishing to motion to a novel place hence yous stimulate got to mouse-over the tiptop nautical chart beneath the map. This centralizes the map on a novel place too the novel place hence becomes the fundamental indicate which yous tin halt rotate the map thought around.
