The Mapped History Of Bogatazo

On Apr 9th, 1948 inwards Colombia, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala, the Liberal leader as well as presidential candidate, was assassinated inwards Bogotá. In answer to the assassination massive riots broke out inwards the city. The riots of Apr ninth left 3,000 to 5,000 dead as well as thousands injured, amongst much of downtown Bogotá destroyed.

The History of Bogatazo is a floor map which recounts the assassination of Gaitán as well as the resulting uprising inwards Bogotá. To progress through the mapped narrative you lot tin terminate click on the timeline command running along the bottom of the map. The buttons on the timeline demonstrate the fourth dimension of each mapped event.

The impressive visual aesthetic of this map is created through the purpose of the custom vintage styling of the map tiles as well as the careful attending to special inwards the map markers, timeline icons as well as the decorative corner images.

As you lot progress through the timeline the map automatically updates to demonstrate the of import events of the day, amongst photos as well as text explaining each mapped event. The map is available inwards both English linguistic communication as well as Castilian versions.

Bogotá Inward 3D

Bogotá en 3d is a beautiful looking CartoDB created map of the El Chicó neighborhood of Bogotá.

The map shows the footprints of thousands of buildings inward the neighborhood, with data most the expose of flats contained inward each private building. If you lot direct a edifice on the map you lot tin stance details on the building's usage in addition to too a photograph of the building.

I'm non certain how useful you lot volition uncovering the map's functionality but it is definitely worth a await merely for the beautiful 3d representation of the neighborhood's buildings.

How To Practise Interactive Vintage Maps

Today I was going to sit down downward as well as write a tutorial on how I created the Mapa. The map is a 1891 map of Bogotá, Republic of Colombia overlaid alongside pop-ups containing data nearly some of the city's prominent politicians at the fourth dimension (mapped to their habitation addresses).


The NYPL tutorial was written past times Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga. By some foreign coincidence Mauricio has every bit good been playing roughly alongside some of the same vintage maps of Lower Manhattan which I used inwards my New York Vintages Maps collection.

His ScrollNYC is a visualization of vintage New York metropolis maps from 1660 through to 1921. Each of the historical maps has been overlaid on summit of a static Mapbox modern map of New York. As y'all scroll downward the page each static map is replaced past times an older map inwards opposite chronological order.