The coloured areas on the map are all the buildings of the city of Waalwijk. Each decade of the last century has a separate colour. Blue is the oldest, from before 1900, and brown/Orange areas are the most recently built. In the city centre, all the buildings that stand against each other are coloured according to the oldest building in the row. This makes the old city centre more visible.
On my youtube channel: De Kaartkunstenaar, there is a video showing the expansion of Waalwijk dynamically on the map.
The data of the buildings with the year comes from the BAG, the basic registration of all buildings and addresses in the Netherlands. The map itself was created using a combination of different programming methods and it was finished by hand in graphics editing programmes. Besides this map of Waalwijk, maps of other major Dutch cities can also be found in this collection.
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