The Nokia HERE weblog has been looking at historical maps of Berlin to run across how map makers inward pre-unification Deutschland represented the presence of the Berlin Wall as well as East as well as West Berlin inward maps. In History of the Berlin Wall Through Maps CJ Schuler examines how cartographers inward East as well as West Deutschland responded to the partitioning of the city.
The post service looks at a serial of maps, including this 1988 map (screenshot above) from East Germany, which shows West Berlin merely every bit a huge hole inward the map.
Twenty-five years agone this Nov the Berlin Wall was torn down. Since as well as thus Berlin has been transformed. The Berliner Morgenpost has published a bully aerial sentiment map of Berlin which allows yous to compare the modern twenty-four hours Berlin alongside the Berlin of 1989.
Using the Berliner Morgenpost's interactive map Die Narbe der Stadt you tin switch betwixt aerial views of Berlin from 1989 as well as aerial views of Berlin today. H5N1 carte du jour inward the top-left corner of the map provides quick links to unopen to of import locations inward the metropolis which convey been transformed inward the twenty-five years since the wall was torn down.
The Berliner Morgenpost has too created a novel map of Berlin which reveals a novel dividing trouble inward the city. How the S-Bahn Ring Divides the City is a map of the High German upper-case missive of the alphabet inward which the neighborhoods convey been colored to present whether close of the inhabitants were born inward or exterior Berlin.
The map reveals that inside the S-Bahn telephone inward every neighborhood, except Neu-Templhof, the bulk of the residents were born exterior Berlin. Outside the S-Bahn telephone many of the neighborhoods are dominated past times native Berliners.
