Real-Time Flight Tracking is now 3D / / No Comments The next generation of flight-tracking maps has arrived! I am a huge fan of live flight-tracking maps like Flightradar24, ADS-B Exchange and FlightAware. These popular websites all show planes moving in real time on top of a 2D map. Recently Air Loom introduced the concept of a 3D air-traffic map to bring a whole new level of immersion to flight tracking. Unlike traditional flight maps, Air Loom Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: flight, realtime, Tracking
Adding a Dolly Zoom to Your Map / / No Comments This week, Andrew Sepic of Mapbox published a fascinating article on Unlocking Mapbox GL JS’s Hidden Field of View Control – a technique that can dramatically change how a map feels without moving the camera at all.By manipulating the camera’s internal FOV parameter, developers can:Create a telephoto effect (narrow FOV) for architectural visualizationProduce a dramatic wide-angle Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Adding, Dolly, Zoom
Mapping Every Ancient Site in Greece / / No Comments Whether you are planning a trip to Greece, researching ancient civilizations, or simply exploring the geography of the classical world, you should enjoy the Archaeological Atlas of Greece.I have a huge soft spot for historical cartography, especially when it involves rescuing data from “old-school” interfaces and making it more accessible. Which is why I’m drawn to the Archaeological Atlas Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Ancient, every, Greece, Mapping, Site
Pinning Photo History to the Map / / No Comments You are about to become a digital time-traveler with OpenMediaMap. There’s an undeniable nostalgic thrill in stumbling upon a century-old photograph of your own neighborhood – spotting the ghosts of buildings long gone or recognizing the outlines of streets that still exist today. By mapping vintage images, OpenMediaMap makes it possible to explore these moments geographically and experience the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: History, Photo, Pinning
The Flight Sim Globe / / No Comments Flight Tracker Demo | Source on GitHub Flight Tracker is an impressive Three.js project that simulates global air traffic in real time. While the visualization is currently powered by simulated flight data, the developer has indicated plans to integrate real-time feeds in the future. For now, if you are interested in real-time flight tracking maps you can view Flightradar24 and Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: flight, Globe
Introducing GeoCards – A Wiki Labeled Map / / No Comments GeoCards I’ve seen many ‘vibe-coded’ wiki maps lately. Most follow the same blueprint: they use your location to surface nearby Wikipedia markers. While that works, I wanted a wiki map where the map itself is the gateway. So I built my own wiki map. On GeoCards, every label – from cities and rivers to roads and landmarks – is interactive. Instead of asking ‘What’s near me?’, GeoCards answers Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: GeoCards, Introducing, Labeled, Wiki
Drive Anywhere on Earth / / No Comments Glenn Explore is a 3D open-world driving game that lets you drive a virtual car anywhere on the planet.Back in the early days of the Google Maps API – when we still called digital mapping “neogeography” – there was a massive craze for building driving games on top of real-world maps. Glenn Explore feels like a love letter to those early days of online mapping.Admittedly, the tech here is a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Anywhere, Drive, Earth
Meet Language Explorer: Google’s New Open-Source Linguistic Atlas / / No Comments Google Research’s Language Explorer, is a new interactive map that anyone can use to explore the world’s languages.Mapping the World’s TonguesThe interface of the Language Explorer is built around a highly responsive interactive map. Users can dive into the data in several ways:Spatial Discovery: You can use the map to zoom into a specific region – like the Highlands of Papua New Guinea or the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: atlas, Explorer, Google's, Language, Linguistic, meet, opensource