On luftbilder.berlin.codefor.de, you can browse aerial images of Berlin from almost 100 years, from 1928 until today, from the Geoportal Berlin, and see how the city has changed.
This is a project of the OK Lab Berlin.
- github.com/jochenklar/maps is the app to compare tiled maps side by side, which this site is built with
- github.com/codeforberlin/maps.berlin.codefor.de is the sister site maps.berlin.codefor.de, which shows many more maps from the Geoportal Berlin, like historical maps and the urban development of Berlin since 1650
- github.com/codeforberlin/gdal-tiles-api is the API which cuts out the tiles from Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs and other datasets using GDAL
- github.com/codeforberlin/tiles-config is the configuration of tiles.codefor.de, which serves the tiles for the different maps with the GDAL Tiles API
The aerial images are provided by the City of Berlin in the Geoportal Berlin, formerly known as the FIS Broker. The code to fetch them is at github.com/codeforberlin/fis-broker.
The site is a small Vite app, the maps are configured in maps.json and the rest of the
config in maps.config.js, see the README of @jochenklar/maps. Install the
dependencies and start the development server with:
make install
make devmake build builds the static site into dist/ and make preview serves it locally. make local uses a
checkout of @jochenklar/maps in ../maps instead of the release from npm, and make deploy copies the build to
the server set as DEPLOY=host:/path in .env.