Watch Los Angeles Grow

We are definitely witnessing a mini revolution inward the presentation of edifice historic menstruum maps.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 duad of weeks agone the map squad at the City of Amsterdam released Housing Plans, an animated map of novel housing projects inward Amsterdam. In a Twitter conversation amongst the creators of the map I remarked that I'd been waiting for mortal to practise a like animated map, using edifice historic menstruum information to demo how a metropolis has grown over time.

Within 24 hours the City of Amsterdam responded amongst the Amsterdam Growing Over Time map. This incredible animated map shows how the metropolis of Amsterdam developed too grew from a few houses inward the 17th century into the dynamic metropolis it is today.

Thanks to cityHUB Los Angeles yous tin instantly every mo good sentry an animated map showing Los Angeles evolution inward the 20th Century. The LA Building Age map visualizes the historic menstruum of close three i 1000 1000 buildings inward Los Angeles. The colors of the edifice footprints on the map demo the decade of when the buildings were originally built (you tin every mo good click on private edifice footprints on the map to sentiment the exact twelvemonth that it was built).

In truth these animated edifice historic menstruum maps don't render a truthful moving painting of how cities convey grown over time. The maps entirely demo the historic menstruum of buildings that be today. So what is missing from this map is historical buildings which convey been replaced yesteryear newer buildings over time. However animating the maps yesteryear the historic menstruum of construct does render a corking feel of how too where cities convey developed over the decades (or over the centuries inward Amsterdam's case).