Dimensions – adds some perspective

It’s amazing how such simple interactive tools can be so engaging and entertaining. A project I came across recently is a web app for BBC history which takes important places, events and things, then illustrates them over a map of where you are. It’s called Dimensions and it takes your post code and an important event or place and draws it on google maps – giving you a great perspective on the scale of things. It also goes as far as enabling you to map out a path which has been taken before in a different place (for example the … Continue reading →