New The History Of Edinburgh Map

Edinburgh Library has created a wonderful map featuring historical stories, photos together with maps most life inward the Scottish capital.

Our Town Stories - Edinburgh is a cracking showcase for roughly of Edinburgh Library's collection of historical documents, photographs together with maps. My favorite facial expression of Our Town is that y'all tin sentiment historical photos of the metropolis genuinely overlaid on your choice of historical maps of the city.

The map includes a handy time-line characteristic which allows y'all to search through the stories, photos together with maps yesteryear date. Enter a appointment hit on the time-line together with all the documents for that menstruum are shown on the map using categorized markers.

If y'all choose a 'history map' mark y'all tin sentiment the map overlaid on superlative of the Google Map base of operations layer. You tin together with then choose an 'image' mark to sentiment the historical ikon together with the place that it depicts.

If y'all choose a 'story' mark a floor map opens. The floor map guides y'all through an historical consequence from Edinburgh's yesteryear highlighting all the relevant locations on a Google Map. For example, the 'Robert Louis Stevenson’s Edinburgh' floor recounts the author's life inward Edinburgh, featuring identify unit of measurement portraits together with historical photos, together with a mapped direct to roughly of the Edinburgh locations of import inward his life.