The Survey of London Whitechapel has released a fascinating interactive map which allows you lot to larn to a greater extent than near the histories of Whitechapel's buildings. The map allows you lot to click on whatever edifice inwards this East End neighborhood to larn near when the edifice was constructed in addition to how it has been used.
Over the terminal few years at that spot has been a big tendency to map the age of buildings inwards cities closed to the world. The Survey of London map has taken this concept to the side past times side marking past times mapping non simply the historic menstruation of buildings but besides the private histories of each Whitechapel building, including details of how each edifice has been used over time.
If you lot click on a edifice footprint on the map a pocket-size data window appears showing a motion-picture demo of the building, its yr of structure in addition to a link to the building's total history. For illustration if you lot select the edifice outline of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry on the map you lot volition run across that it was built inwards the 1740's. If you lot click on the 'Read More' link you lot volition expose that the trace of piece of occupation concern has been making bells at this address since the 16th Century in addition to it is ‘Britain’s oldest manufacturing company’.
Each edifice on the map besides includes a push to 'Add Content'. This push allows local people to add together historical details, photos or memories of the edifice to the map.
The Survey of London Whitechapel map includes a release of dissimilar base of operations map layers. This allows you lot to persuasion the edifice footprints on summit of a modern OS map of the neighborhood or on a vintage 1746 map of London or on summit of an 1873 Ordnance Survey map.
