Interesting charts and maps

[BPL]

I considered posting this in the random picture thread, but I think it merits its own thread.

Here's one to start - a real time wind map of the US.

http://hint.fm/wind/

A group of previous wind maps
http://hint.fm/wind/gallery/

 

[BPL]

NOAA Online Chart Viewer
http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/NOAAChartViewer.html

 

[daiquiri]

I considered posting this in the random picture thread, but I think it merits its own thread.

Here's one to start - a real time wind map of the US.

http://hint.fm/wind/

A group of previous wind maps
http://hint.fm/wind/gallery/

The first word which came to my mind was - beautiful!!!

 

[Number4]

http://marine.geogarage.com/routes

http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

 

[BPL]

Thanks!

Wouldn't it be great if they extended the animated wind map to cover the globe.

Some uncorrected NGA charts are free at
http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/NGAChartViewer.html
too now (NA, Western Africa, Mediterranean, Black Sea, Eastern Asia, South Eastern Russia, Philippines)

Too bad "At the direction of NGA, NOAA is no longer able to provide thumb nail access to the following NGA nautical charts regions: #2 Central, South America; #3 UK, Iceland, Greenland, Western Europe; #4 Scandinavia, Northern Russia; #6 Eastern Africa, Southern Asia; #7 Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea; #8 South Pacific Islands; and #10 Miscellaneous."

 

[Number4]

Great thread!
Here are some maps of towns designed by the greatest military engineer of all time, and father to modern engineer troops, or "sappers".
(Who are of course the most important soldiers in a General's army).
Marechal Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban.

 

[michael pierzga]

Unfortunately I dont have access to a powerful internet connection and am not able to learn World Wind.

NASA WORLD WIND is a good program to download and learn. Check on the World Wind USERS Forum.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/features.html

Dust storm Canary Islands.


image

 

[BPL]

http://marine.geogarage.com/routes

Thanks. This is easier to see. Another site that works the same is
http://earthnc.com/online-nautical-charts with transparent NOAA charts aligned on top of the google satellite imagery.

Is there a way to load nautical charts directly into google earth?

 

[philSweet]

here are a few US maps. (pack a lunch)

http://www.maphistory.info/index.html

 

[BPL]

here are a few US maps. (pack a lunch)

http://www.maphistory.info/index.html

Bookmarked and I'll be going through this for some time. Thank you! This is one of the most comprehensive lists I've seen. The "Images of early maps" section is a treasure trove.
http://maphistory.info/webimages.html

 

[Number4]

http://www.getamap.ordnancesurveyleisure.co.uk/
Here in the UK, we are very lucky to have the ordnance survey.
click aerial for sattelite photo
click leisure for very fine detail.

 

[BPL]

Today I tried Bing Maps to look at Florida's coastline. Bing has a new Bird's Eye view that shows aerial views from four different angles. It can rotate the aerial N, S, E, W by 90 degrees and you can see each side of the buildings.

How are they doing this? Is it four different satellite photos all perfectly corrected? Or is it some new stereoscopic way of taking the satellite photo pass?

 

[tomas]

Today I tried Bing Maps to look at Florida's coastline. Bing has a new Bird's Eye view that shows aerial views from four different angles. It can rotate the aerial N, S, E, W by 90 degrees and you can see each side of the buildings.

How are they doing this? Is it four different satellite photos all perfectly corrected? Or is it some new stereoscopic way of taking the satellite photo pass?

Google also does this in more detail for certain areas (they keep adding).
Look at the Waikiki marina in Hawaii or Marina Del Ray in California and zoom in, for example.

When you see those views in 90 degree increments, those are aerial photos, not satellite images.