New The Novel Berlin Wall

The Nokia HERE weblog has been looking at historical maps of Berlin to meet how map makers inwards pre-unification Deutschland represented the presence of the Berlin Wall in addition to East in addition to West Berlin inwards maps. In History of the Berlin Wall Through Maps CJ Schuler examines how cartographers inwards East in addition to West Deutschland responded to the sectionalisation of the city.

The post looks at a serial of maps, including this 1988 map (screenshot above) from East Germany, which shows West Berlin merely every bit a huge hole inwards the map.

Twenty-five years agone this Nov the Berlin Wall was torn down. Since thence Berlin has been transformed. The Berliner Morgenpost has published a cracking aerial persuasion map of Berlin which allows you lot to compare the modern solar daytime Berlin amongst the Berlin of 1989.

Using the Berliner Morgenpost's interactive map Die Narbe der Stadt you tin dismiss switch betwixt aerial views of Berlin from 1989 in addition to aerial views of Berlin today. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bill of fare inwards the top-left corner of the map provides quick links to closed to of import locations inwards the metropolis which bring been transformed inwards the twenty-five years since the wall was torn down.

The Berliner Morgenpost has likewise created a novel map of Berlin which reveals a novel dividing trouble inwards the city. How the S-Bahn Ring Divides the City is a map of the German linguistic communication uppercase inwards which the neighborhoods bring been colored to present whether close of the inhabitants were born inwards or exterior Berlin.

The map reveals that inside the S-Bahn weep upward inwards every neighborhood, except Neu-Templhof, the bulk of the residents were born exterior Berlin. Outside the S-Bahn weep upward many of the neighborhoods are dominated yesteryear native Berliners.