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Wednesday, December 1, 2021

The Maps Of The Week


Alternate history novels convey been really pop over the final few years. So for sure at that spot must move a marketplace for alternate history maps. Newcastle Brown Ale patently mean value so.

The brewer has released an alternate history map of the the States inwards observe of Independence Day. If We Won is a vivid map of the USA showing how the province mightiness await if the American War of Independence had been won past times Great Britain.

Enter whatever town or urban heart too person into the map too yous tin flaming discovery what the location would move named if the Americans hadn't been so unhappy near paying a fiddling tax. For illustration El Paso becomes Ye Olde Paso, Charlotte becomes North Charlottesvilleford too San Francisco becomes Wolverhampton.

This map actually uses the total extent of the Google Maps API, from custom map tiles too custom labels to Google Places auto-complete. It's worth checking out the 'britanify' piece of occupation inwards the map code to encounter how some of the American house names convey been turned into Ye Olde English linguistic communication names.


The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is a bully means to explore the growth of States cities using USGS historical maps.

Click on the modern Esri map of a location too all the available USGS historical topographic maps of the surface area are shown inwards a timeline beneath the map. If yous pick out a map from the timeline it volition too so move overlaid on the modern map. You tin flaming hence piece of occupation through the timeline of historical maps to observe how towns too cities convey developed over time.

The map includes an opacity slide tool so that yous tin flaming conform the transparency of the overlaid historical maps. The timeline chemical part beneath the map tin flaming also move adjusted to growth the size of the map element.


Game on With Mapbox too Tilemill is an awesome fiddling demo of how yous tin flaming practise a RPG type estimator game using the Mapbox mapping platform. The game is hosted on Codepen so yous tin flaming encounter at a glance how the game plant too fifty-fifty utilization the JavaScript panel to instruct clues equally to how to win the game.

The game globe base of operations map tiles were created amongst Tilemill. The player's grapheme is a mark added to the map. You tin flaming motility the grapheme mark only about past times using the 'wasd' keys on your keyboard (use 'e' for action). Collision detection is created past times creating a bounding surface area polygon for the room.

At at that spot is exclusively 1 chore involved to consummate the game. However I convey heard a fiddling rumor that at that spot is a lot to a greater extent than to come upward amongst this game.