This is a live visualisation of trains across Germany – its very cool if you zoom in. Here is a
news article on the work.

The people behind OpenDataCity released a real-time map of delayed long-distance trains of the Deutsche Bahn, as they happen to drive around in Germany. Trains are represented as arrows, of which the overlaying colored circle denotes an estimation of the actual delay. The map can be explored in a “live- mode”, revealing all current delayed trains, or in an “historic mode”, for instance by dragging (or selecting within) the timeline at the top. A Play-button then highlights the relative movement of the trains as they are traveling, or traveled so far, through Germany. In addition, each train on the map can be selected to display more detailed information (such as the official reasons for the delay, for example). A separate query interface allows discovering the most delayed trains in a certain period of time, by train station, or by the train number. Resulting trains can then be selected from the result list to be highlighted on the map.

Edinburgh Cresta Run

http://thecrestarun.com/speedFiles/take3.html which is part of… http://www.alistapart.com/articles/svg-with-a-little-help-from-raphael/

Demonstrates the simplicity of drawing flow over maps – this works really well on smart phones making it very accessible as a technical approach even though it doesn’t look so cool!

 

Wind Map

This is simply wonderful – the flow of Wind across the US: http://hint.fm/wind/

The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We’ve done our best to make this as accurate as possible,

but can’t make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software. Please do not use the map or its data to fly a plane, sail a boat, or fight wildfires If the map is missing or seems slow, we recommend the latest Chrome browser. Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. These are near-term forecasts, revised once per hour. So what you’re seeing is a living portrait. (See the NDFD site for precise details; our timestamp shows time of download.) And for those of you chasing top wind speed, note that maximum speed may occur over lakes or just offshore. We’d be interested in displaying data for other areas; if you know of a source of detailed live wind data for other regions, or the entire globe, please let us know. If you’re looking for a weather map, or just want more detail on the weather today, see these more traditional maps of temperature and wind. From the developer:“The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We’ve done our best to make this as accurate as possible, but can’t make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software…Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. These are near-term forecasts, revised once per hour. So what you’re seeing is a living portrait. (See the NDFD site for precise details; our timestamp shows time of download.) And for those of you chasing top wind speed, note that maximum speed may occur over lakes or just offshore.”  Hint.FM

 

Flowing Ships