Mapping The Etymology Of House Names

Straßenkrieg is a fascinating map revealing the history behind the many Berlin street names which bring a armed services connection. The map highlights Berlin streets which bring been named later battles, of import armed services leaders or High German the world forces regiments.

All the armed services connected roads are highlighted on the map amongst colored lines. The colors signal the historical menses associated amongst the road's name, e.g. Prussian, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism or post-WWII. If you lot pick out a route on the map you lot tin travel read a brief explanation of the armed services relevance of the road's cite in addition to click-through to read a to a greater extent than detailed concern human relationship of the mortal or battle memorialized.


Straßenkrieg reminds me a lot of the History of San Francisco Place Names. The History of San Francisco Place Names is a fascinating insight into the history of the names behind the city's landmarks in addition to streets.

Click on whatever of the streets or landmarks, marked inwards bluish on the map, in addition to you lot tin travel notice out who it was named later or where its cite originally came from.

First Globe Country Of War Trench Maps

The National Library of Scotland has released interactive maps of 307 trench maps from World War I. The maps non alone exhibit the place of First World War trenches simply let on the place of enemy positions in addition to defences.

The maps are available to sentiment inward a release of unlike formats. You tin post away sentiment all the library's historical armed forces maps of trench positions past times navigating this Google Map showing where trench maps are available. You tin post away likewise sentiment the maps overlaid on a modern Google Map. My favorite format all the same is this side-by-side viewer, which allows you lot to test each of the trench maps adjacent to the same sentiment today using Google Maps or Bing Maps satellite imagery.

Mapping Nato Operations

Since 1949 NATO has been working to preclude conflicts or as well as thus the basis through political diplomacy as well as through armed services operations.

H5N1 novel map, called NATO on Duty, shows the locations of NATO's electrical flow operations. NATO's ongoing missions as well as deployments are displayed on the map as well as yous tin click on the armed services markers to explore the compass of each mission.

The map too includes a release of other layers that present yous the electrical flow fellow member countries of NATO, the non-member partners who contribute troops as well as NATO's other partners across the world.

A Storey Map For D-Day

This even map of the  role of the Canadian terra firma forces inwards the Allied invasion on Normandy during D-Day isn't the greatest map inwards the world. However I produce yell upward it provides the footing for a dandy template for a narrative map.

CTV News' Remembering D-Day provides a chronological mapped tour of or as well as then of the of import events inwards the Canadian army's advance during the allied invasion. The map uses the scroll component subdivision to progress through the narrative of the day's events. As you lot scroll downwards the page the relevant data inwards the map-sidebar is highlighted as well as the map moves to the discussed location.

I similar the highlighting of the relevant text inwards the map sidebar. The map could accept been made a petty to a greater extent than interesting alongside to a greater extent than campaign on the map, perchance using animated polylines as well as or as well as then closer zooming on the mapped locations.

The usage of the scroll bar to progress through the narrative likewise agency that you lot can't usage your mouse-wheel to scroll inwards as well as out on the map. So the map would likewise produce goodness from including or as well as then zoom controls.

The Drone Assault Map

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has released an interactive map of USA drone attacks on Pakistan. The Bureau maintains a database of U.S. drone attacks on Pakistan, which began inward 2004 as well as proceed to this day.

The Where the Drones Strike map shows the locations of all U.S. drone strikes inward Pakistan, the nature of each target hitting as well as the let on of casualties of each drone attack. You tin operate the timeline at the bottom of the map to stance the strikes made inward each calendar month since 2004.

You tin too operate the forrad as well as dorsum arrows inward the map sidebar to stance dissimilar filtered views of the drone strikes. These include a mapped visualization of all the drone strike as well as a stance of all the strikes that caused civilian casualties.

The reported locations of drone strikes are sometimes alone given equally a specific town or district thus to a greater extent than or less of the mapped locations are imprecise.