Westminster & Lambeth, 1889 — in 3D
26 places from the stories, on 10,362 buildings traced one by one from the Ordnance Survey
1:2500 map of 1869–1880. 57 of them have a photo on Wikimedia Commons that names the building.
building (OS 1:2500) with photo estimated block
· heights exaggerated 1.8×
Q/E rotate · W/S tilt · R reset · N north up · K old maps ·
scroll to zoom, drag to pan, click a light for Doyle’s words, a building for its name.
▶ demo is the best way in:
it tells a story on the map, stop by stop, and switches between the surveyors’ sheets and Booth’s colours as it goes. Watch where
the rich and the poor streets meet; Doyle knew exactly which side of that line each of his characters lived on.
The whole of London · other districts: Marylebone, West End, Holborn & the City · Whitechapel, 1888.
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