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Friday, February 6, 2009

How Flanders Has Changed Inwards Fifty Years



The Flemish region part of Kingdom of Belgium has changed a lot inward the final fifty years. If y'all desire to know how the expanse has changed too therefore y'all tin explore the 50 Years of Concreting inward Flanders interactive map.

fifty Years of Concreting inward Flemish region uses aerial photography from 1971 to present how the part looked from the air one-half a century ago. Using the map y'all tin search for whatever address too compare modern aerial imagery amongst the historical aerial imagery to explore how the expanse has changed. The 1971 imagery has a spatial resolution of i meter, which agency that it is of a high plenty resolution to hold out able to pose private houses.

The map was made past times Maarten Lambrechts, who has likewise written an interesting spider web log postal service on how the map was made. In A await through history map of Flemish region - the making of Maarten explains how he made the historical imagery into a map tile layer which could hold out viewed using an interactive map. He likewise explains how he developed the functionality to portion a place on the map. This allows users to only cutting & glue the URL of a place on the map which they tin too therefore portion amongst friends or family.