New Making Vintage Panoramic Maps


The Buffalo News has created a overnice interactive map from an 1880 panoramic map of Buffalo, created past times E.H. Hutchinson. The Buffalo News interactive version of the map allows y'all to zoom-in together with explore this vintage oblique stance of the metropolis inward unopen detail.

The map includes a break of map markers which render information close around of the landmarks shown on the map together with around historical photos of the same landmarks. Each of these information windows also includes a link to a Buffalo News article on the selected location, from the newspaper's weekly serial on how the metropolis has changed over the final 138 years.

From 1880 to Today is a Leaflet.js version of a panoramic map from the Library of Congress collection. The Library of Congress owns over 1,500 vintage panoramic maps of towns together with cities across the United States. You tin do your ain interactive map from whatsoever of these Library of Congress panoramic maps using the IIIF manifest provided for each map together with the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in for Leaflet.js.


Leaflet-IIIF is a unproblematic to purpose plug-in for creating a Leaflet based browser for IIIF manifests or images shared using the IIIF Image API. Using this plug-in y'all tin brand interactive maps from tens of thousands of manuscripts, paintings together with other images held past times around of the best known global fine art galleries, museums together with universities. And the Library of Congress.

I used the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in to do a Leaflet.js map of around other vintage panoramic map from the Library of Congress. This Sherbrooke Panoramic Map shows a 1881 panoramic map of the southern Quebec city. I worked out the latitude together with longitude of private buildings on the map past times using the Leaflet-Hash plug-in to do a dynamic URL for the map amongst the latitude together with longitude shown inward the URL for what always is at the pump of the map.


You tin also do a unproblematic interactive map from whatsoever of the Library of Congress vintage panoramic maps using the antirubbersheeter tool. Antirubbersheeter is a novel spider web service which tin help y'all do a Leaflet.js map of whatsoever image, amongst its ain co-ordinate system. The occupation amongst using an IIIF manifest equally your background map is that y'all thence require to survive out how to geocode points on your map if y'all desire to add together markers. Antirubbersheeter does all this for y'all past times creating a unique co-ordinate organisation for your uploaded image.

This agency that y'all tin easily purpose Leaflet.js to brand interactive maps from vintage maps, fantasy maps, game basis maps or from whatsoever picture that y'all desire to use. It is actually slow to purpose Antirubbersheeter. Just upload your image. Add a listing of places y'all desire to geocode on your image. Antirubbersheeter thence allows y'all to but click on your picture to geocode the listing of places where y'all desire to add together markers.

When you've finished added locations to your picture Antirubbersheeter outputs the JSON of your geocoded locations, providing y'all amongst the co-ordinates for each of the places y'all desire to score on your real ain Leaflet.js map.

Antirubbersheeter includes a demo map which y'all tin stance to run across how this all industrial plant inward practice. I've also created a slightly simpler demo map which y'all mightiness honor a picayune easier to survive from.
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