New York Times - 3D Olympic Venues Map

New York Times - 3D Olympic Venues Map

If you want just one map to locate events for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010 then this Interactive and Animated 3D Map created by The New York Times is it.

• Highly Detailed
• Smooth Animated Zooms to Event Locations
• Interactive (Users can control 3D aspects panning and zoom)
• Informative Details on the Sport persons to look out for
• High Quality Action Photographs.

Clicking from the Map above smoothly zooms to:

Users can control Aspect using the controls in the top right corner.


Using Flash there is a quick response to load up a very impressive 3D Animated Map

Well done to
SHAN CARTER, MATTHEW ERICSON and JOE WARD; Additional reporting by Melissa Hoppert

Sources: Elevation data by Intermap Technologies Inc.; satellite photographs by Digital Globe, Province of British Columbia and TerraMetrics via Google Earth

Visit the New York Times - 3D Olympic Venues Map
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/09/sports/olympics/2010-olympics-venue-map.html

New York Times - Mapping the other 70%

New York Times - Mapping the other 70%


Shipping is impacting oceans across the globe.


Acidification is also impacting oceans across the globe.

All the maps

• Human impact
• Shipping
• Invasive species
  
• Temperature
• Ultraviolet Light
• Acidification

"scientists are building the first worldwide portrait of such dispersed human impacts on the oceans"

Full article
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/science/earth/26coas.html

Credit to Benjamin S. Halpern, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis; Science

& New York Times Graham Roberts, Jonathan Corum