One of my favorite maps from end yr was Bert Spaan's Netherland's Building Age Map. His map, created for the Waag website, visualized the historic catamenia of a staggering 9,866,539 buildings inwards the Netherlands.
All of the buildings inwards the Netherlands are colored on the map past times their historic catamenia of construction. You tin fifty-fifty click on whatever of the nearly ten 1000000 buildings to persuasion their exact yr of construction. When y'all pick out a edifice on the map y'all tin every mo good persuasion details nearly its solid reason expanse too function.
Bert Spaan has straight off created approximately other map for Waag, which visualizes rural solid reason utilisation inwards the Netherlands afterward World War II. Mansholt, Landscape inwards Perspective is a flush map which explores how the rural landscape inwards the Netherlands changed during Sicco Mansholt's term every mo Minister for Agriculture.
Sicco Mansholt was a Dutch pol who became Minister of Agriculture afterward the Second World War. While Minister of Agriculture Mansholt revolutionized agriculture inwards the Netherlands too initiated solid reason reclamation inwards many areas of the country.
As y'all progress through the flush of Mansholt's initiatives every mo Minister of Agriculture y'all tin persuasion maps of approximately of the rural landscapes which saw dramatic alter nether his term of office. The maps include a solid reason utilisation layer which let y'all to persuasion the agricultural or recreational utilisation for each packet of land. The solid reason parcels on the map are colored to dot the type of crop which they are used for.
