Kwu Tung North 1982

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Kwu Tung North, December 1982

A reconstruction of the valley as a survey aircraft photographed it on 21 December 1982, decades before the New Development Area.

Click the map to walk from that point at eye height. W A S D to move, drag to look, M for the map again.
Colour says how sure it is. Blue is shown in a dated source; the other colours are rules, guesses and borrowed material. Click anything to see where it comes from.
The analogue view is not evidence. Its surfaces come from other villages and texture libraries, laid on the sourced outlines.

Drag: pan
Wheel, + −: zoom
Click: walk from that point at eye height, facing north; on a building, stand 2 m outside it, facing it, with its record open
Shift-click: open the record only, stay on the map
Click a camera mark: open the photo hotspot: F = the site today, A = analogue (another village, not evidence), H = archival
U: show or hide the features not in the model: dotted = pending confirmation (on the Aug 1983 sheet, not confirmed on the Dec 1982 photo); dashed = absent in Dec 1982 (on the 1981 sheet, nothing there on the photo)

W S or ↑ ↓: forward, back
A D or ← →: step left, right
Q E: turn left, right
Shift: three times the walking speed
Drag: look around (the view turns the way you drag)
L: mouse-look: the pointer turns the view; a click identifies at the crosshair; Esc releases
Click: identify: the record opens in the side panel (the ground has one too)
M or Esc: back to the map, which shows where you stand and which way you face
K: show or hide the key map (top right): where you stand, north up; scroll over it to zoom in and follow; click a point on it to go there, facing the same way (beside a building, if the point is inside one)
P: save a screenshot (map or walk) with its position, direction, epoch and credit
H: this help

Ground level only: the eye stays at the eye height above the terrain, with no flying or jumping, and buildings cannot be entered.