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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Maps Of The Week


I've had a lot of fun this calendar week exploring the geographical distribution of place-names amongst Places!. Places! allows you lot to map the relative density of place-names inwards dissimilar countries closed to the world. Using the application you lot tin come inwards place-name prefixes or suffixes together with persuasion a map showing the geographic distribution of place-names containing those terms.

For example, inwards the U.K. nosotros tin come inwards the place-name suffixes of -thorpe together with -thwaite to consider where the Vikings settled inwards Britain. The resulting map shows that these ii place-name endings are pop throughout the expanse that was 1 time known equally the Danelaw, next the Viking invasions of the 9th century.

In the USA you lot could search for the distribution of the San- or Santa- prefixes to consider where in that location mightiness accept been a rigid Castilian influence inwards place-names. On the other mitt the suffix -ville mightiness hold out a skillful indication of where French immigrants originally settled inwards the USA.


This Paris edifice historic menstruation map proved to hold out the close pop map on this week. BatiParis: PĂ©riode de Construction des Immeubles Parisiens maps the historic menstruation of buildings inwards key Paris. It is too a rather skillful instance of the edifice historic menstruation genre of interactive mapping.

Like other edifice historic menstruation maps BatiParis uses a choropleth layer to exhibit the historic menstruation of buildings, amongst each edifice colored according to its twelvemonth of construction. If you lot zoom inwards on the map of import historical buildings are too shown on the map amongst interactive map markers.

Like other skillful edifice historic menstruation maps BatiParis allows you lot to filter the buildings shown on the map past times historic menstruation of construction. For example, direct the 1851-1914 arrive at together with you lot tin persuasion this major menstruation of structure inwards the French capital, a number of Haussmann's renovation of Paris inwards the afterwards one-half of the nineteenth century.


Twenty Years earlier John Snow famously mapped the locations of cholera victims inwards London's Broad Street Robert Baker plotted the deaths of cholera victims inwards Leeds.

Maps inwards the Age of Cholera is a even out map based closed to Robert Baker's 'Sanitary Map of the Town of Leeds' exploring the 1832 cholera epidemic inwards this Yorkshire town. Baker never made the link betwixt cholera together with contaminated water. However, inwards his map together with inwards the accompanying study to the Leeds Board of Health, Baker noted that "the illness was worst inwards those parts of the town where in that location is oftentimes an entire desire of sewage, drainage together with paving".

The map itself uses this Leaflet Story Map plug-in. The Leaflet Story Map library uses jQuery to practice a scroll driven even out map. The map tiles system for Robert Baker's 1832 'Sanitary Map of the Town of Leeds' comes from Wikimaps Warper.