Mapping A City's Growth

Yesterday I wrote well-nigh how I've been waiting for mortal to exercise an animated map of edifice historic catamenia information - inwards guild to present a metropolis growing over time. Incredibly the map squad at the City of Amsterdam has responded to that asking inwards a mere affair of hours.

Amsterdam Growing Over Time is an incredible animated map which shows how the metropolis of Amsterdam has developed together with grown from a few houses inwards the 17th century into the dynamic metropolis it is today. Click on the play push clit together with lookout equally the city's edifice footprints are added chronologically to the map based on each building's age.

The information for the buildings comes from the Construction together with Address Database - BAG. This database provides the historic catamenia of buildings throughout the Netherlands. Some of the buildings inwards the database are manifestly newer buildings which convey been built inwards the same location together with replaced older buildings. However Amsterdam has plenty historical buildings yet standing for the animated map to furnish a pretty accurate painting present of how Amsterdam has grown over the centuries.