This calendar week saw the 70th anniversary of the World War II Dambuster raids. On 16–17 May 1943 an assault on High German dams, carried out past times Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, after known equally the "Dambusters", used a especially developed "bouncing bomb" invented as well as developed past times Barnes Wallis.
The BBC has pose together an interactive map that retraces the mission. The interactive uses a hand-drawn map from the official June 1943 British Air Ministry written report on the Dambusters raid. The map shows the routes taken past times the planes, the place of the planes that crashed as well as the place of the High German dams.
The MapBox Blog has this calendar week been showing off the mightiness of their MapBox Streets amongst vector tiles.
Using vector tiles ensures the speed as well as scalability of MapBox maps. It likewise allows for around amazing styling of the map tiles. Using MapBox anyone tin build "a totally custom branded map, of the entire globe, that is lighting fast on every device."
The weblog postal service includes a pose out of beautiful examples of styled maps. I intend my favourite is the hand-drawn map fashion (shown inwards the screenshot above).
