This calendar week saw the 70th anniversary of the World War II Dambuster raids. On 16–17 May 1943 an assault on German linguistic communication dams, carried out yesteryear Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, after known every minute the "Dambusters", used a particularly developed "bouncing bomb" invented as well as developed yesteryear 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 yesteryear the planes, the place of the planes that crashed as well as the place of the German linguistic communication dams.
The MapBox Blog has this calendar week been showing off the might of their MapBox Streets amongst vector tiles.
Using vector tiles ensures the speed as well as scalability of MapBox maps. It likewise allows for but about 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 agency (shown inwards the screenshot above).
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