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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Amstel Gold Race tweetmap

This map shows live tweets on the Amstel Gold Race combined with the map of the race and most important slopes. A storymap has also been created with the pictures of the important places. Everything was published on the website of the Flemish Broadcasting Corporation (VRT): http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/matchcenter/mc_wielrennen/comp_voorjaar/1.1601497

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Paris Roubaix cycling event in a storymap

Yet another cycling event storymap published by Flemish Radio and Television on Sporza:

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Storymaps combine pictures and maps to tell a story

This is the most important cycling event in Flanders: Ronde Van Vlaanderen as published by the SPORZA team of the VRT (Vlaamse Radio en Televisie). The map shows all the different events of the cycling tour.

ArcGIS Online now also supports tile layers

Check out the map below. Nothing special? You're wrong, this map is just a tile layer map. The tiles are not served by ArcGIS Server or another GIS server, they are simple tiles on a webserver. Other than that this map is also very special with its water color design for the whole world based on open streetmap.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Chelyabinsk meteorite social media map

The map below shows predominantly the youtube movies posted around the Chelyabinsk meteorite explosion. It gives indications on where particles have fallen on earth and where the explosion itself took place.