Bert Spaan's Netherland's Building Age Map, created for the Waag website, is 1 of my favorite interactive maps of all time. This map visualizes the historic menses of a staggering 9,866,539 buildings inwards the Netherlands. This is really impressive inwards itself precisely its move of distinct colors for buildings of dissimilar structure ages agency that the map too has a striking visual impact.
Inspired past times Spaan's map Parallel has created a Netherlands Building Ages interactive map which shows non exclusively the historic menses of 10 1 M m buildings inwards the Netherlands precisely the tiptop of those buildings equally well. This map makes move of Mapbox's GL extrude property to visualize the tiptop of all the buildings inwards 3D. The colors of the buildings dot their age. You tin too hover private buildings to larn a building's exact twelvemonth of construction.
The map squad at the City of Amsterdam used the same Construction together with Address Database (BAG) used inwards the higher upward 2 maps to create an animated map of the structure of Amsterdam over time.
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 y'all tin scout equally the city's edifice footprints are added chronologically to the map based on each building's age.
Some of the buildings inwards the BAG database are patently newer buildings which convey been built inwards the same location together with which replaced older buildings. The map thus doesn't supply an exact film of how the metropolis developed. However Amsterdam has plenty historical buildings nevertheless standing for the animated map to supply a reasonable overview of how Amsterdam has grown over the centuries.
Using Mapbox's extrude belongings it would live on possible to create an animated map of Amsterdam which showed the buildings of the metropolis growing out of the map over time. This assort of historical animated map powerfulness live on fifty-fifty to a greater extent than impressive inwards somewhere similar New York, a metropolis where at that topographic point are much taller buildings. Imagine an animated map of New York during the 20th Century showing the city's skyscrapers emerging from the map together with growing e'er taller over time.
