This is why I love maps
I wish I were in London so I could see the British Library’s London: A Life in Maps exhibit. But the site they’ve created for it is well worth a visit even if you can’t be there in the flesh. I especially like the way they’ve linked their images to a Google map of present-day London, so you can identify the site of William Smith’s 1588 panorama of London or compare a survey of damage from the Great Fire of 1666 with the satellite images of the same area today. They’ve even made their maps into a Google Earth layer. Way to merge geographic data with the historic record! Go, look, be amazed.
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