scripting – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:42:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg scripting – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 A Snowstorm Revealed Through Traffic Delays https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/01/a-snowstorm-revealed-through-traffic-delays/ Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:37:14 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=621 More]]> traffic

NPR graphics editor Alyson Hurt discovered that this month’s blizzard was showing up in Google Maps as traffic delays, and whipped up a little script that took regular screencaps of Google Maps’s traffic layer. She then created an animated GIF from the screencaps. The end result (above) dramatically shows the storm sweeping across the mid-Atlantic states.

Andy Woodruff then took Hurt’s script and created an animation of an ordinary day of Boston traffic. For a “quick, crude” script it certainly seems to have potential. [via]

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