The Edifice History Map

The Survey of London Whitechapel has released a fascinating interactive map which allows y'all to larn to a greater extent than nearly the histories of Whitechapel's buildings. The map allows y'all to click on whatever edifice inward this East End neighborhood to larn nearly when the edifice was constructed together with how it has been used.

Over the terminal few years at that spot has been a big tendency to map the age of buildings inward cities closed to the world. The Survey of London map has taken this concept to the side past times side score past times mapping non only the historic catamenia of buildings but every bit good the private histories of each Whitechapel building, including details of how each edifice has been used over time.

If y'all click on a edifice footprint on the map a minor data window appears showing a moving painting of the building, its twelvemonth of structure together with a link to the building's amount history. For event if y'all select the edifice outline of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry on the map y'all volition encounter that it was built inward the 1740's. If y'all click on the 'Read More' link y'all volition honour that the job organisation has been making bells at this address since the 16th Century together with it is ‘Britain’s oldest manufacturing company’.

Each edifice on the map every bit good includes a push clitoris to 'Add Content'. This push clitoris allows local people to add together historical details, photos or memories of the edifice to the map.

The Survey of London Whitechapel map includes a seat out of dissimilar base of operations map layers. This allows y'all to persuasion the edifice footprints on pinnacle of a modern OS map of the neighborhood or on a vintage 1746 map of London or on pinnacle of an 1873 Ordnance Survey map.