Creating Stories From Historical Maps

The NYPL Map Library as well as the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection furnish a nifty resources for whatever developers who wishing to role historical map layers inwards their online maps. Last calendar month I created a floor map using a historical map as well as images from the NYPL Digital Collections.

My Gangs of New York floor 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 you lot desire to create your ain floor map using a vintage map layer as well as then it is likely easier to role 1 of the existing floor map templates, such equally Esri's Story Maps or CartoDB's Odyssey.js. Combine either of these floor map templates alongside vintage map layers from the NYPL or David Rumsey as well as you lot get got 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 you lot tin create a floor map using Odyssey.js alongside an historical map layer from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.

The tutorial takes you lot through how Stacey created a history map exploring the modern history of tattooing inwards San Francisco. Before next the tutorial get got a hold back at the finished Tattoo Map of San Francisco.

If Stacey's tutorial inspires you lot to brand your ain historical floor map as well as then you lot mightiness desire to banking concern jibe out Vintage Maps of San Francisco, which is a fiddling collection of about 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.