Stewart Brand sent in this spiffy UCLA project that uses historical interactive maps of Berlin through time. This is part of a larger trend I have seen from many governments and municipalities to use modern geographical information systems (GIS) to not only create maps of what is there, but to add the time element to create a much deeper now.

• Historical Maps in Google Earth
• Virtual Berlin
• Westport Ireland
• China
• Philadelphia

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