Tag Archives: Bomb Census Maps
Bomb Sight is Live
Start discovering London’s wartime past today on our website ( and our mobile app which is coming very soon). 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 … Continue reading
Announcing Bomb Sight
Watch this space….Coming Soon http://bombsight.org/ https://twitter.com/BombSightUK
Bomb Sight: Naming and Branding our Web and Mobile App
For the last two-three weeks we have been trying to find a suitable name and identity for the interactive website and mobile mapping app with Augmented Reality functionality. There are two key outputs from the project. The four core members … Continue reading
Creating digital maps from paper maps – Georeferencing
This blog post summarises how we are transforming paper maps of from the Bomb Census into interactive digital maps through a process known as geo-referencing. We start with scanned paper map which is stored as a digital image that is … Continue reading
About the data we are using (part 2): The Bomb Maps
This post describe in more details the two different types of bomb maps that we will be using in our tools: Aggregate maps of nightly Bomb Drops during the period October 7th, 1940 to 6th June, 1941 (archive record: HO193/13) [35 Map Sheets] … Continue reading
About the data we are using (part 1): How we selected the archive map data to use
To develop a manageable set of data we had to select from a vast array of archive information. This blog post describes the process of narrowing the focus by selecting a time period, a region and a sub-set of maps. … Continue reading
Presentation to JISC GeoCultures Event, Localising Wartime Past: London’s Blitz
For those of you that missed the event a few weeks ago – here is an introduction to the project that I presented at the JISC Geco Geocultures event in the beginning of March 2012. Localising Wartime Past: London’s Blitz … Continue reading
Developing Wireframes for Blitz Bomb Census Website
This post summarises the development of an initial wireframe for the Stepping Into Time project. The very first user described the wireframe as , “familiar and intuitive” and provided a few points for further consideration. The wire frame that has been developed is … Continue reading
About the project: Mapping the Blitz Bomb Census, London
Mapping the Blitz Bomb Census: stepping into time brings World War 2 bomb damage maps into the digital world by using web and mobile mapping technology. It brings to life the maps that demarcate the location of falling bombs during … Continue reading
Mapping the Blitz Bomb Census: Bomb Sight 