New The Fine Art Of Mapping Art


One of the peachy advantages of flexible JavaScript mapping libraries similar Leaflet.js is that they tin endure used to practice far to a greater extent than than only interactive maps. For example, if y'all swap your map tiles for epitome tiles, y'all tin apace practice an impressive interactive epitome viewer.

Last calendar week nosotros looked at how Europeana Labs has used Leaflet.js to practice a uncomplicated interactive interface for viewing medieval manuscripts. Prophesies About the Papacy allows y'all to role Leaflet's panning as well as zooming controls to explore the illustrations as well as text inward the Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus, a serial of prophetic manuscripts dating from the 14th century.

Europeana Labs are non the alone developers to role Leaflet to render a uncomplicated interface for exploring images. The Rijksmuseum too uses Leaflet to allow visitors to explore the industrial plant of the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt inward unopen detail. The Rijksmuseum's dedicated Rembrandt spider web page includes a publish of the Dutch master's paintings, all of which tin endure explored inward exceptional using a Leaflet powered interactive epitome viewer.


The Minneapolis Institute of Art has too used Leaflet to render an interface to stance industrial plant of fine art inward its extensive collection. For instance this Leaflet map of Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple allows y'all to seek out El Greco's icon inward all its stunning detail, including the portraits of iv other Renaissance painters inward the lower right-hand corner.


Of course of report epitome viewers created amongst Leaflet don't cause got to endure confined to presenting the paintings of famous artists. The Getty Museum has used Leaflet to render a agency of exploring the beautiful designs which tin endure constitute inward Roman mosaics. The Getty's Roman Mosaics website includes a Leaflet map showing the original locations of the Roman mosaics inward its collections.

Leaflet wasn't used only for the map. If y'all click through on the links provided inward each mosaic's mark on the map y'all tin truly explore the mosaics themselves on their ain private Leaflet epitome viewer.


Gunma GIS Geek has too used the Leaflet mapping platform to practice interactive maps from a couplet of famous Japanese pilgrimage mandalas. Pilgrimage mandalas are paintings which render a panoramic stance of temple as well as shrine sites.

The get-go map on Temple Pilgrimage Mandala is of the Nachi Pilgrimage Mandala. This 16th–17th century hanging scroll depicts the Nachi Shrine on the Kii Peninsula inward Japan. The icon represents the journeying of 2 pilgrims (the couplet clothed inward white) equally they come inward the scene (bottom right) as well as cause got a circuitous road through the temple complex to the Nachi shrine.
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