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Saturday, November 13, 2021

The Maps Of The Week


You accept in all likelihood seen Hint.fm's beautiful Wind Map of the United States. You may too accept seen the Tokyo Wind Map, a like animated map of real-time air current speeds too administration inward too but about Tokyo.

The developers behind the Tokyo Wind Map accept straight off created an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than impressive visualization of close real-time global atmospheric condition conditions. Like Hint.fm too the Tokyo Wind Map, Earth uses D3.js to exercise an interactive map that displays air current speeds inward close real-time, exclusively this fourth dimension the map is a gorgeous 3d globe.


I'm a sucker for real-time animated maps, thence London on Trend was nearly sure as shooting to characteristic inward this week's Maps of the Week. London on Trend perfectly captures the measurement of metropolis life inward the English linguistic communication working capital alphabetic lineament through a alive real-time Google Map of photos submitted to Instagram inward London.

As presently every bit y'all larn into London on Trend Instagram photos laid about dropping on a Google Map of London. You tin too thence but sit down dorsum too lookout adult man every bit novel photos are continuously added to the map every bit Londoners submit photos to Instagram.


The championship of most shared map of the calendar week most larn to Empire.is. The the States has good over 700 armed services bases across the planet alongside official facilities inward at to the lowest degree 37 countries. Empire.is is a map showing the place of the States armed services installations, non exclusively inward the US but but about the world.

As good every bit mapping known the States armed services installations Empire.es too provides aerial imagery of a large lay out of the bases, sourced from Google too Bing Maps.

The information for the armed services locations is from the 2013 Base Structure Report too from sites reported past times journalists too geographers. The writer of the map says that at that topographic point are nevertheless many armed services bases missing from the map.