Maps Of The Week

I've had a lot of fun this calendar week exploring the geographical distribution of place-names amongst Places!. Places! allows y'all to map the relative density of place-names inwards unlike countries some the world. Using the application y'all tin larn into place-name prefixes or suffixes too persuasion a map showing the geographic distribution of place-names containing those terms.

For example, inwards the U.K. nosotros tin larn into the place-name suffixes of -thorpe too -thwaite to watch where the Vikings settled inwards Britain. The resulting map shows that these 2 place-name endings are pop throughout the expanse that was i time known every bit the Danelaw, next the Viking invasions of the 9th century.

In the USA y'all could search for the distribution of the San- or Santa- prefixes to watch where at that topographic point mightiness convey been a rigid Castilian influence inwards place-names. On the other manus the suffix -ville mightiness last a skilful indication of where French immigrants originally settled inwards the USA.


This Paris edifice historic menstruation map proved to last the some pop map on this week. BatiParis: Période de Construction des Immeubles Parisiens maps the historic menstruation of buildings inwards key Paris. It is every bit good a rather skilful event of the edifice historic menstruation genre of interactive mapping.

Like other edifice historic menstruation maps BatiParis uses a choropleth layer to present the historic menstruation of buildings, amongst each edifice colored according to its twelvemonth of construction. If y'all zoom inwards on the map of import historical buildings are every bit good shown on the map amongst interactive map markers.

Like other skilful edifice historic menstruation maps BatiParis allows y'all to filter the buildings shown on the map yesteryear historic menstruation of construction. For example, guide the 1851-1914 arrive at too y'all tin persuasion this major menstruation of structure inwards the French capital, a number of Haussmann's renovation of Paris inwards the afterward one-half of the nineteenth century.


Twenty Years earlier John Snow famously mapped the locations of cholera victims inwards London's Broad Street Robert Baker plotted the deaths of cholera victims inwards Leeds.

Maps inwards the Age of Cholera is a storey map based some Robert Baker's 'Sanitary Map of the Town of Leeds' exploring the 1832 cholera epidemic inwards this Yorkshire town. Baker never made the link betwixt cholera too contaminated water. However, inwards his map too inwards the accompanying study to the Leeds Board of Health, Baker noted that "the illness was worst inwards those parts of the town where at that topographic point is oftentimes an entire desire of sewage, drainage too paving".

The map itself uses this Leaflet Story Map plug-in. The Leaflet Story Map library uses jQuery to practice a scroll driven storey map. The map tiles system for Robert Baker's 1832 'Sanitary Map of the Town of Leeds' comes from Wikimaps Warper.