Historical aerial maps censored?

The great historical aerial map service shanghai-map.net has made the most detailed closeup of its 1948 and 1979 maps unavailable. Attempting the maximum magnification now gives you a blank page. I once had a crazy idea to screenshot the whole 1948 downtown at a maximum zoom but the website appeared stable so I postponed this.

Level 5:

Level 6:

Level 7:

And we no longer have Levels 8 and 9, which used to look like the image below. More images in this post.

Tags: 1940s, aerial, censorship, mapping, shanghai

Posts from This Journal “aerial” Tag

Shanghai downtown from air (1936)

High angle hi-res shots of Shanghai are one of my favorite things. Photo by Wulf-Diether Count of Castell-Rüdenhausen. Source.
Commercial Plan of Shanghai (1915)

This wonderfully detailed plan of Shanghai (1915) is available in super high-res at UWM. It includes a bird's-eye view of the Chinese City:…
A fantastic aerial photo of downtown Shanghai (1937)

Click the image to see it huge! Source: Spaarnestad. I tried to place selective captions right under the buildings, choosing only those that…