Maps Mania: Notable Memorial Map


map of central London with the names of individuals added where there are memorials to them in the city

Notable Memorials

This morning, I created a map of memorials in central London.

My Notable Memorials map shows the names of people with memorials in central London, lots of that are blue plaque memorials.

Whereas there’s nothing notably groundbreaking in regards to the map itself (though seeing the names of people relatively than simply markers is sort of partaking), what stands out is how shortly I used to be in a position to create it. In beneath 5 minutes, I gathered the information and constructed the map thanks largely to the Obtain Knowledge from OpenStreetMap software.

Obtain Knowledge from OpenStreetMap

Obtain Knowledge from OpenSteetMap is a brand new software that makes it remarkably simple to view and extract geographical information from OpenStreetMap in GeoJSON format.

Anybody acquainted with Overpass Turbo is aware of it’s a highly effective querying software for OpenStreetMap information. Nevertheless, mastering the Overpass Question Language (OQL) will be fairly difficult (although instruments like ChatGPT have made writing Overpass QL queries a lot simpler). That’s why I consider there’s a big demand for easy, user-friendly instruments like Obtain Knowledge from OpenStreetMap.

The software makes use of OpenStreetMap classes to populate a drop-down menu. To view and obtain information, you merely choose one in every of these classes. Any subcategories are conveniently displayed within the map’s sidebar. Then, with only a click on of the inexperienced ‘obtain’ button, you may export the chosen information as a GeoJSON file.

Notable Individuals Map

If I wished to make my Notable Memorials map into one thing folks may truly use when touring round London I may use the Wikipedia API so as to add a short biographical paragraph for every of the notable people displayed on the map. 

For now you may choose Topi Tjukanov’s Notable Individuals Map, which exhibits probably the most notable folks born in places across the globe. If you wish to discover memorial markers then the Historic Marker Database information the places of everlasting outside historic markers and commemorative plaques the world over. Learn the Plaque has additionally mapped the placement of hundreds of historic plaques.



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