The Interactive 16Th Century Map Of London

The Agas Map is a beautiful bird's heart together with somebody thought map of London, showtime printed inward 1561. The map depicts a London which is withal a walled metropolis together with where the banks of the Thames are dotted amongst acquit pits together with playhouses.

The Agas Map of Early Modern London is an interactive version of the map built using the OpenLayers platform. You tin pan together with zoom inward on the map together with you lot tin explore locations on the map using the location categories menu. For illustration if you lot plough on the streets layer you lot tin click on roads on the map to larn to a greater extent than nearly the route together with its etymology.

The Map of Early London website includes a comprehensive encyclopedia of London people, places together with topics featured inward or of import to the map. The interactive locations on the map connects amongst the encyclopedia. If you lot conduct a location from the map or from the locations bill of fare you lot tin read a snippet from the encyclopedia together with click through to read the amount encyclopedia entry.