Edinburgh Library has created a wonderful map featuring historical stories, photos as well as maps nearly life inwards the Scottish capital.
Our Town Stories - Edinburgh is a bang-up showcase for to a greater extent than or less of Edinburgh Library's collection of historical documents, photographs as well as maps. My favorite facial expression of Our Town is that you lot tin post away persuasion historical photos of the metropolis truly overlaid on your selection of historical maps of the city.
The map includes a handy time-line characteristic which allows you lot to search through the stories, photos as well as maps yesteryear date. Enter a appointment make on the time-line as well as all the documents for that menses are shown on the map using categorized markers.
If you lot conduct a 'history map' marking you lot tin post away persuasion the map overlaid on summit of the Google Map base of operations layer. You tin post away as well as hence conduct an 'image' marking to persuasion the historical ikon as well as the place that it depicts.
If you lot conduct a 'story' marking a storey map opens. The storey map guides you lot through an historical final result from Edinburgh's yesteryear highlighting all the relevant locations on a Google Map. For example, the 'Robert Louis Stevenson’s Edinburgh' storey recounts the author's life inwards Edinburgh, featuring describe of piece of employment solid unit of measurement portraits as well as historical photos, as well as a mapped guide to to a greater extent than or less of the Edinburgh locations of import inwards his life.
