The Map Room points out a beautiful visualisation created by NASA that shows the world’s ocean currents in a way that looks like it could have been created by Van Gogh himself. Simply beautiful, and there’s a link to a video, too.
With April Fool’s Day having just passed us by, eSpatial have compiled a map that displays some of the best hoaxes in history.
Speaking of April Fool’s, did you see Google’s 8-bit Map Cartiridge for NES? Brilliant.
Best of all, you can trial it out here.
It also seems that people are liking the idea of an 8-bit-ified Google Maps, as someone has already developed a (basic) game using the 8-bit tiles. Google Maps Mania have the details.
For all the metal fans out there, GIS Lounge had a post that displays an interactive map of heavy metal bands per capita, and per person.
Unsurprisingly, Northern Europe is the hot spot.
It’s one of those weeks where a blog gets a double mention. This week, the lucky Blog is … Jonathan Crowe’s Map Room! The post of worth is one that shows a beautiful rendering of Open Street Map as watercolour tiles. Amazing.
(for a bonus beautiful map, you should also check out the near-real-time wind map that he recently posted).
And, to round off this week’s selection with a round-up, Andrew Zolnai has compiled a list of iPad mapping apps. Very handy.
