Yesterday I wrote nearly how I've been waiting for soul to exercise an animated map of edifice historic menstruation information - inwards social club to demo a metropolis growing over time. Incredibly the map squad at the City of Amsterdam has responded to that asking inwards a mere affair of hours.
Amsterdam Growing Over Time is an incredible animated map which shows how the metropolis of Amsterdam has developed in addition to grown from a few houses inwards the 17th century into the dynamic metropolis it is today. Click on the play push in addition to sentry every minute the city's edifice footprints are added chronologically to the map based on each building's age.
The information for the buildings comes from the Construction in addition to Address Database - BAG. This database provides the historic menstruation of buildings throughout the Netherlands. Some of the buildings inwards the database are evidently newer buildings which bring been built inwards the same location in addition to replaced older buildings. However Amsterdam has plenty historical buildings all the same standing for the animated map to render a pretty accurate film of how Amsterdam has grown over the centuries.
