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Ovi Maps 3D Beta (Now Photorealistic)

Ovi Maps 3D Beta ( Now Photo-realistic)

Cities coverage

Nokia's photorealistic 3D models of metropolitan areas initially include:

- Barcelona
- Boston
- Chicago
- London
- Copenhagen
- Florence
- Helsinki
- Las Vegas
- Los Angeles
- Madrid
- Miami
- Milan
- New York
- Oslo
- Prague
- San Francisco
- Stockholm
- Toronto
- Venice
- Vienna

http://maps.ovi.com/3d/
(plugin required) - servers are in demand currently and might not get the full picture - wait a few days for the hype to calm down.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/04/19/ovi-maps-3d-the-world-is-not-flat/

Labels: 3D, Cities, Maps, Nokia, Ovi, Photoreal

Google StreetView for Canadian Cities - New!

Google StreetView for Canadian Cities - New!

Seems a long time waiting but finally Google Street View comes to Canada.

The service is now available in much of the Greater Toronto Area and in Vancouver and the surrounding area, north to Whistler (2010 Winter Olympics Venues) and east to Chilliwack, British Columbia

Google Street View is also available in the Ontario cities of Hamilton, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ottawa also Calgary, Canmore, Banff and Lake Louise in Alberta, Montreal and surroundings, Quebec City and finally Halifax in Nova Scotia.

Source and embedded StreetView Scenes available at
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/10/street-view-comes-to-canada.html

Don't forget you can embedded your own StreetView tours easily with
http://www.streetcities.com/

Labels: Canada, Cities, Google, New, StreetCities, StreetView, Tours

Hypercities - Time Line Maps

Hypercities - Time Line Maps

A nice integration with a time-line and old maps.

Using the time-line can narrow down dated maps for display in a particular city
More than one map can be overlaid and opacity can be controlled for each individual map.

Rome has many old maps - worth checking out.

Note: There are option for 3D (GoogleEarth Browser plugin required) however the old map tiles do not seem to appear in the 3D version.

Timeline and Maps
http://linuxdev.ats.ucla.edu/

Source: Twitter (map search)

Labels: Cities, Custom Maps, Google, HyperCities, Old Maps, Timeline

DEFRA Noise Maps (England)

Noise Mapping Defra England Cities - Bristol

Defra Map of Bristol day time road noise levels.

Noise maps only cover cities, but cover day noise (Lden) and night time (Lnight) noise levels
4 Layers are available - Road, Rail, Industry and Air noise.

The Noise Mapping England site currently supports the following urban areas only:

Birkenhead
Blackpool
Bournemouth
Brighton
Bristol
Coventry
Hull
Leicester
Liverpool
London
Manchester
Nottingham
Portsmouth
Preston
Reading
Sheffield
Southampton
Southend
Teeside
The Potteries
Tyneside
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

"The noise maps have been produced by Defra to meet the requirements of the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006, and are intended to inform the production of noise action plans for large urban areas, major transport sources, and significant industrial sites in England.
Directive 2002/49/EC - more commonly known as the Environmental Noise Directive (END) - concerns noise from road, rail and air traffic and from industry. It focuses on the impact of such noise on individuals, complementing existing EU legislation which sets standards for noise emissions from specific sources. The END requires:
the determination of exposure to environmental noise, through noise mapping;
provision of information on environmental noise and its effects on the public;
adoption of action plans, based upon noise mapping results, which should be designed to manage noise issues and effects, including noise reduction if necessary;
preservation by the member states of environmental noise quality where it is good."

The Interactive Maps can be found at:

http://noisemapping.defra.gov.uk/wps/portal/noise