New Creating Stories From Historical Maps


The NYPL Map Library as well as the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection furnish a bully resources for whatever developers who want to piece of occupation historical map layers inwards their online maps. Last calendar month I created a even out map using a historical map as well as images from the NYPL Digital Collections.

My Gangs of New York even out map recounts the famous battle betwixt members of the Dead Rabbits gang as well as the Bowery Boys inwards the Five Points district of Lower Manhattan inwards the mid-Nineteenth Century. The map was created using Leaflet.js, waypoints.js as well as a historical map as well as images from the NYPL.

If y'all desire to create your ain even out map using a vintage map layer as well as then it is likely easier to piece of occupation 1 of the existing even out map templates, such equally Esri's Story Maps or CartoDB's Odyssey.js. Combine either of these even out map templates amongst vintage map layers from the NYPL or David Rumsey as well as y'all lead maintain a powerful tool to explore as well as explicate historical events.

Stacey Maples has provided a real interesting tutorial, Cartodb/Odyssey.js Tutorial for Making Story Maps, which provides a step-by-step guide explaining how y'all tin post away create a even out map using Odyssey.js amongst an historical map layer from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.

The tutorial takes y'all through how Stacey created a history map exploring the modern history of tattooing inwards San Francisco. Before next the tutorial lead maintain a expect at the finished Tattoo Map of San Francisco.

If Stacey's tutorial inspires y'all to brand your ain historical even out map as well as then y'all powerfulness desire to cheque out Vintage Maps of San Francisco, which is a lilliputian collection of around of the georectified historical map layers of San Francisco available inwards the David Rumsey collection. The NYC Time Machine provides a like collection of georectified vintage maps of New York, from the NYPL Map Warper projection & the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
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