New Mapping The Blitz

Where I alive inward the East End of London y'all tin sentiment the consequence of the London Blitz on the landscape in addition to architecture of the metropolis almost everywhere y'all look.

My street lone was hitting yesteryear iv bombs during the Blitz during World War II. The consequence of this is really evident in addition to y'all don't actually postulate a map to know where the bombs landed. In consequence y'all but postulate to expect at where the rather attractive Victorian housing ends in addition to instead uglier, post-war carmine brick town houses, begin.


Pre-WWII & post service nation of war housing frequently dot where bombs fell

However, to verify the locations of where bombs brutal inward London during the Blitz y'all tin forthwith sentiment a novel digital map. Bomb Sight is a map showing the place of every bomb that landed during the London Blitz inward World War II.

To exercise the map the master copy 1940s bomb census maps were scanned, geo-referenced in addition to the geographical locations of all the falling bombs were digitally captured. The map was created using Leaflet in addition to hence uses OpenStreetMap map tiles.



Using OpenStreetMap agency that the map tiles are perfect for finding in addition to viewing the locations of where the bombs fell. However I promise that inward the hereafter a Google Maps Street View layer is added to the map. Yesterday I spent a few hours using Bomb Sight to discovery the place of bombs in addition to and so having to opened upwards Google Maps to sentiment the actual place inward Street View.

West End at War is but about other cracking website for anyone interested inward the London Blitz. Their Bomb Incidents department includes detailed stories, photographs in addition to documents close the touching on of specific bombs during the Blitz. The place of each bomb site is besides shown using Google Maps (again unfortunately alongside no Street View option).

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