This calendar week a pair of tidings maps actually caught my attention. First upwardly is Liveuamap, a Google Map reporting incidents from the crisis inward Ukraine. The map is a nonprofit, volunteer run projection amongst a mission to inform the the world close the on-going conflict inward Ukraine.
The latest events inward the solid soil are plotted on the map using categorized map markers together with are too listed inward a map side-panel. The blueish map markers relate to Ukrainian regime actions together with the carmine markers present the actions of the pro-Russian rebels.
The map includes a appointment picker so that you lot tin choose to stance reported incidents from whatever appointment during the conflict. It too includes dynamic URL's so that you lot guide link to whatever incident reported on the map.
There accept been quite a few tidings maps over the years together with none of them accept been amend than Breaking News. Breaking News is an impressive website highlighting the latest tidings stories only about the world. The site includes ii primary elements, a map together with a tidings stream. Users tin either read the posted tidings stories yesteryear clicking on the map pins or on the streamed tidings even out headlines.
One of the nicest features of Breaking News is the 'ongoing stories' function. The tidings current includes an 'ongoing stories' department together with the headlines inward the tidings current are too tagged amongst these 'ongoing stories'. If you lot choose an ongoing even out from the tidings current the map updates to present entirely the geo-tagged tidings items related to your chosen tidings topic.
The site includes a let on of other slap-up features, such equally the mightiness to search for tidings stories together with to relieve topics.
I Know Where Your Cat Lives is non the most innovative of maps but it has to live included inward this week's round-up of the best maps, if entirely because it has been the most pop map on social media over the lastly few days.
One of the earliest pop uses of the Google Maps API was Gawker Stalker. The straight off defunct Gawker Stalker allowed you lot to rails the movements of your favorite celebrities thank you lot to the detailed stalking carried out yesteryear Gawker together with their readers.
If at that topographic point is 1 affair to a greater extent than pop than celebrities on the network together with then that is pictures of cats. It is thus surprising that nosotros accept had to await 7 years for somebody to finally larn only about to releasing I Know Where Your Cat Lives.
I Know Where Your Cat Lives displays pictures of cats on a Google Map. The pictures of the cats come upwardly from pop photograph sharing websites together with the locations are based on the information hidden inward truthful cat photograph metadata.
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