The London Blitz

[AWP]

Very, very cool map of London with all of the bomb impacts recorded and marked. Well worth a look if only to see the scope of the German bombing.

A sample:
http://bombsight.org/#15/51.5047/-0.0891

http://bombsight.org/about/

The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period.

The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps , geo-referenced the maps and digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling bombs recorded on the original map. The data has then been integrated into 2 different types of applications:

 

[RackMaster]

That's amazing and scary at the same time, I wonder how many are still in the dirt.

 

[tova]

Moving the view up to where you can see the overall perspective reminds me of seeing a virus cell that has multiplied upon itself over and over - sickening.

 

[pardus]

The bombing really was extensive. Interesting to see it like that.

There are still places in London where you can see WWI and WWII bomb damage. Churches in particular are interesting as they have been left as is, burnt out shells.

 

[SpitfireV]

Yeah and they still keep pulling up the odd unexploded bomb, too. I suppose on one hand we have to be thankful the Germans changed to London from the airfields but it's a bit of a sad thought.

 

[ÉIREGOBRÁCH1922]

Very interesting. The sheer number of bombs that were dropped, is what amazes you when you zoom out.

 

[Rampart]

Yeah and they still keep pulling up the odd unexploded bomb, too.

Far more than many would be comfortable knowing about.....