The Interactive Newspaper Map

Hans Hack is a High German spider web developer who has created a break of interesting interactive maps. Hans' Straßenkrieg is ane of my favorite High German maps. This map reveals the history behind Berlin street names which convey a armed forces connection.

The map highlights Berlin streets which convey been named later battles, of import armed forces leaders or High German regular army regiments. The colors of the roads dot the historical catamenia associated amongst the road's name, e.g. Prussian, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism or post-WWII. If yous involve a route on the map yous tin read a brief explanation of the armed forces relevance of the road's elevate together with click-through to read a to a greater extent than detailed describe of piece of job organisation human relationship of the mortal or battle memorialized.


I likewise similar Hans' interactive newspaper cut-out map. Paper cutting maps tin endure really beautiful withal they aren't really useful every bit maps. Therefore Hans decided to brand an interactive version of his newspaper cutting map of Berlin.

Hans created map tiles from a photograph of his newspaper map of Berlin together with used Leaflet.js to practise the interactive map. The map is fifty-fifty geo-refrenced, which agency yous tin click on the map together with become the latitude together with longitude of whatsoever dot on the map.


I likewise similar Hans' Animated Map of Berlin. This map uses iii unlike base of operations maps, each amongst a unlike color scheme. The map thus continually fades betwixt the iii unlike base of operations maps to practise a map which is ever changing color.

Hans has created a break of other interesting interactive digital maps which yous tin sentiment on his Portfolio page.