New Novel York Vintage Maps


The New York Public Library's map collection is a wonderful resources for fans of vintage maps. Thanks to the library's Map Warper projection over 10,000 historical maps accept directly been georectified in addition to tin terminal thus endure overlaid on a modern interactive map.

New York Vintage Maps is a piffling collection I've position together using a few vintage maps of Lower Manhattan inwards New York. The maps appointment from 1784 through to an aerial imagery map from 1921. You tin terminal browse through the quondam maps yesteryear using the appointment buttons at the pinnacle of the map.

To practise the map I used the Leaflet mapping platform in addition to only used the handily provided URL from the NYPL Map Warper website for the map tiles. To larn the URL for the map tiles from the Map Warper website you lot only need to click on the 'View Map' link which is provided alongside each historical map. Then choose the 'Export' tab. The URL for the map tiles is listed later the 'Tiles (Google/OSM scheme):' bullet point.
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