Static archive of the Bomb Sight project (2011-2013).
The Bomb Sight project was mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941.
Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students.
They will be able to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period.
NOTE: the website is gradually being rebuilt as a static snapshot, and not all functionality is available yet.
| Label | URL |
|---|---|
| Original | https://bombsight.org |
| Temporary (S3 http) | http://bombsight-web.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com |
| Temporary (S3 via CloudFront) | https://d3i7uuksfqccvr.cloudfront.net |
- Website
- Missing all /bombs/* detail pages (sample)
- Mapping and data
- Geoserver needs restarting/replacing (possibly with static)
- Update Leaflet to newer version (currently 0.4.5!)
- Area pages
- Add bomb layers to zoom 15 (for smaller wards)
- Fix live/TMS usage when switching between tabs
- Background mapping provider
- Base map provider should be replaced with new provider (currently OpenStreetMap, previously Carto)
- Nominatim geocoder should be replaced with new provider (currently OpenStreetMap, previously Mapquest)
- Aerial imagery layer to be re-added if available (previously Bing)
- Third party services
- AddThis needs removing
- Google Analytics may need updating
- Google Ads needs updating
| Dataset | Layer Name | Type | Files |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Night of the Blitz (7 Sep 1940) | day_bomb | Point | CSV GeoJSON GeoPackage |
| Aggregate Bomb Census points (7 Oct 1940 - 6 Jun 1941) | agg_bomb | Point | CSV GeoJSON GeoPackage |
| Aggregate Bomb Census map (7 Oct 1940 - 6 Jun 1941) | agg_mosaic_auto_contrast_sharpen_15 | Raster | TMS |
| Weekly Bomb Census points (7-14 Oct 1940) | week_bomb | Point | CSV GeoJSON GeoPackage |
| Weekly Bomb Census map (7-14 Oct 1940) | weekly_mosaic_auto_contrast_sharpen_15 | Raster | TMS |
| Defence Sites | defence_site | Point | CSV GeoJSON GeoPackage |
All material on this website and the mobile App is made available free of charge for non-commercial individual, academic and research use only.
All material on this website and the mobile App is not intended for any commercial or legal activities.
Commercial exploitation of the maps, datasets, and background material provided on this website, whether in their original form or in maps of data created on this site, is prohibited.
- For the original Bomb Census Maps both weekly and aggregate, permission is required from The National Archives, London, England.
- For the 24 hours of the 7th September permission is required from the Guardian
- For the Imperial War Museum images – permission is required from the Imperial War Museum
- For the BBC history WW2 memories, permission is required as appropriate from the original contributor of the story.
- For the bomb site locations dataset permission is required from the project via the University of Portsmouth
- For the Defence of Britain dataset, permission is required from the Council of British Archaeology.
The Bomb Sight Project gives no warranty to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for purpose of the information provided. Commercial exploitation of the images, maps, datasets, and background material provided on this website is prohibited. Material should be used only for purposes of non-commercial research, private study or education. The Bomb Sight project was funded as part of JISC's Content Programme 2011-13
wget can be used to retrieve all the pages from the original site and rewrite the URLs for local use, though it will still require a little manual fixing.
wget -rH -Dbombsight.org,static.prod.bombsight.org,static.prod.bombsight.org -l 5 -p --convert-links -i seed-urls.txt
To pull:
docker pull docker.osgeo.org/geoserver:2.28.0
To run:
docker run -it -p 8080:8080 \
--mount type=bind,src=<path>/geoserver/data,target=/opt/geoserver_data \
--env SKIP_DEMO_DATA=true \
--env ENABLE_JSONP=true \
docker.osgeo.org/geoserver:2.28.0
To login: http://127.0.0.1:8080/geoserver/web (admin/geoserver)
Once Geoserver is configured as desired using the mounted data directory (see above), you can run the following to build and run using a snapshot of that data directory.
Copy the .env.example file to .env and configure appropriately.
docker compose up --build
- deployment and security/stability review
To seed the tiles using GeoWebCache (GWC), go to the Tilesets page, click seed, choose zoom levels 5-14 (or 5-17 for raster maps), and start.
To copy tiles cached by GeoWebCache into a static TMS directory structure:
python scripts/gwc_to_tms.py geoserver/data/gwc/sit_prod_agg_bomb static/tms/prod_agg_bomb