Mapping The Allied Bombing Of Europe

This map of World War II Bombings helps to demonstrate how useful map legends tin be. It does this past times non having a map legend. The consequence is that the map's developer has created 1 of my favorite types of map game - 'Guess What is Being Mapped Here'.

The absence of a legend agency that the user has to endeavour to function out for themselves what the map visualizes. The starting fourth dimension clue is that the map shows no bombs dropped on the Great Britain during World War II. Therefore my approximate is that it either shows bombs dropped past times the UK, past times America or past times the Allies during World War II.

The lack of a legend besides agency that the map user has to approximate what the size of the bomb markers represents. My approximate is that the circle sizes either stand upwardly for the set out of bombs dropped at each place or the size of the bombs dropped.

Spoiler Alert - the answers to this exceptional map game are revealed below. If y'all desire to function out for yourself 'what is beingness mapped here' halt reading now,

Of course of teaching the smart map user volition notice the GitHub user cite of the developer inwards the URL of the map. They volition in addition to then exercise their ain detective function in addition to rails downwardly the map's GitHub repository. If y'all desire to cheat inwards this way in addition to then y'all tin discovery that the source for the bomb information comes from the datamil Theater History of Operations (THOR) Data: World War II. The information genuinely represents "U.S. in addition to Royal Air Force data, equally good equally roughly Australian, New Zealand in addition to South African air forcefulness missions" from 1939-1945.

The map's GitHub repository besides contains the GeoJSON file for the bomb information shown on the map. This GeoJSON file contains a 'Total Tons' belongings for each bomb dropped during World War II. Therefore the size of the map markers represents the full tonnage of bombs dropped on each location.


Now that we've worked out that the World War II bombings map shows Allied bombing missions nosotros tin motion on to expect at bombs dropped past times the Luftwaffe on London. You tin sentiment a map of all the bombs that vicious during the Blitz inwards WWII inwards London on Bomb Sight. To exercise the map the master copy 1940's bomb census maps were scanned, geo-referenced in addition to the geographical locations of all the falling bombs were digitally captured.

You tin click on all the private bomb markers on this map to sentiment details nigh the bomb in addition to the harm caused in addition to to sentiment nearby photos taken during the Second World War. There's non hence much of a guessing game involved inwards Bomb Sight. I'm going to live on a petty controversial in addition to country that this map is all the ameliorate for including an information panel which tells the user what is genuinely beingness mapped.