Interesting Maps

These are the maps that I love the most, where you can see roads that you know of today and how different they are.

Anyone who plays Fallout 76 knew what this looked like.

Makes the BBC! clearly they read the thread..

It is amazing to see that every house has a strip of land behind it.

That is fantastic land and resource efficiency, for humans and fauna, than having scattered houses with no pattern, like Ireland. Is it a legacy of the communism era or before?

West Berlin had some exclaves. Steinstucken was the only inhabited one, with 300 people. Residents had to travel through two East German checkpoints on a 1km road to W Berlin until a walled road was built in 1972, requiring an exchange of territory between E Germany and W Berlin, which in turn required the approval of the four occupation powers: the USSR, UK, USA, France.

E German railway tracks bisected Steinstücken, and residents used the Stahnsdorfer Straße bridge to cross from one side to the other. E Germany refused to transfer the territory occupied by the bridge to W Berlin. A compromise was reached in which the bridge and the airspace above it became part of W Berlin, while the airspace and land below the bridge, including the tracks, remained in E German hands.

Following reunification, the border around Steinstücken was dismantled and the neighborhood has become seamlessly integrated with surrounding Babelsberg. However, the former border remains as the boundary between the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, including the oddity of having the Stahnsdorfer Straße bridge as part of Berlin but the land below it in Brandenburg.

1989 before the wall fell, part of Steinstucken

The Phoenix Park. That 46A bus route is gone now.

The name' Phoenix ' is a corruption of the original Irish name Fionn Uisce, or 'clear water'.

Fionn Uisce does not sound remotely like Phoenix!