The Mesh Is Small

This DutchStartUp Map shows that Amsterdam has a thriving manufacture inward novel technology. The map portrays a urban kernel experiencing a increment inward on-line shopping, social communities, spider web evolution together with an infrastructure of investors, accelerators together with start-up funds eager to assist promote this increment further.

However Amsterdam's tech manufacture has unopen to means to larn to competition Amsterdam's cultural manufacture inward the 17th Century. Just guide maintain a await at the huge issue of publishers together with printers on this Cultural Industries Map.


The map shows the place of Amsterdam's printers together with publishers betwixt 1500 together with 1900. It includes a engagement pick tool that allows you lot to conform the results shown past times date. Select the 17th Century together with you lot volition give away that inward that century lonely Amsterdam had over 700 printers together with publishers.

Now that's a cultural industry.

The Mega Map Of Amsterdam

The Planning Department of the City of Amsterdam has created a seat out of interesting Google Maps, all of which tin locomote establish inwards the Interactieve Kaarten department of their website. They accept immediately also created the Amsterdam Map of Maps, a mega-map of Amsterdam, which allows you lot to persuasion all the mapped urban core information on i Google Map.

The map includes a large seat out of information layers, including belongings value, soil quality, vacant offices. My favorite layer is the 'non-residential function' data, which visualizes edifice utilisation throughout the city. The layer non entirely colors all non-residential buildings past times commercial utilisation (retail, office, leisure etc) only it allows you lot to click on private edifice footprints to persuasion the possessor of the building.


Dutch lovers of maps should also banking corporation jibe out CitySDK and the The iBag Viewer.  Both of these maps show the historic menstruum of almost 10 i yard m buildings inwards the Netherlands too are nifty mapped visualizations of real large data. The 2 maps are nifty tools for exploring unlike patterns of urban evolution inwards Dutch towns too cities.

Amsterdam During The War

The prolific Amsterdam mappers at maps.Amsterdam.nl receive got released a novel Google Map, Amsterdam inward the Second World War. Using information from the urban marrow archives the map shows the place of all the bombs that were dropped on the urban marrow betwixt 1940-45.

The map every mo good shows the place of downed aircraft, bird debris in addition to anti-aircraft shells. You tin strength out click on the private markers on the map to sentiment details nigh each recorded incident (in Dutch).


When yous mean value of Amsterdam during the Second World War yous at ane time mean value of Anne Frank. The Het Amsterdam van Anne Frank time-line is beautifully realized concern human relationship of the Amsterdam of Anne Frank.

The time-line explores the history of Amsterdam earlier in addition to during High German business inward World War II. It includes excerpts from Anne Frank's diary amongst historical photographs in addition to videos of Amsterdam during the occupation.

If yous click on an entry inward the time-line it volition opened upward inward a lightbox agency window. Most of the entries' locations are visualized using a a static Google Map. If yous click on the static map a larger Google Map volition opened upward to demo the entry's place inward Amsterdam.


In London yous tin strength out sentiment a map of all the bombs that savage during the Blitz inward WWII on Bomb Sight. To practise the map the master copy 1940's bomb census maps were scanned, geo-referenced in addition to the geographical locations of all the falling bombs were digitally captured.

You tin strength out click on all the private bomb markers on the map to sentiment details nigh the bomb in addition to harm caused in addition to to sentiment nearby photos taken during the Second World War.

Where Tin Forcefulness Out One Fly?

Schipol Go International is a map of all international destinations that yous tin seat notice wing to from Amsterdam's Schipol airport.

The role of the Google Maps API styled map feature as well as custom data windows gives the map a vibrant design. The add-on of background audio to the map gets a trivial annoying precisely yous tin seat notice plough the audio off. The map too include audio effects for each map interaction, which would endure far less annoying on their own, as well as I gauge could fifty-fifty assist navigation of the map.

If yous guide a goal on the map yous tin seat notice larn a few facts nearly the selected location, such equally the flying time, local fourth dimension as well as the publish of days a calendar week flights acquire out Schipol for the destination.