Historical Novel York Map Tiles

I'm a huge fan of the New York Public Library's Map Warper project. Using the tool people accept been digitally aligning the library's historical map collection too hence that the maps tin survive overlaid on modern interactive maps. The lawsuit is that you lot tin at i time browse over 10,000 historical maps on the Map Warper website.

CartoDB this calendar week noticed that you lot tin also purpose the map tiles from whatsoever of the over 10,000 historical maps inward your ain interactive maps. They accept fifty-fifty posted a non bad tutorial, Using NYPL Map Warper maps within CartoDB, explaining the uncomplicated procedure of adding the map tiles from i of the New York Public Library maps to your ain CartoDB map.

Of course of pedagogy you lot tin also purpose the Map Warper map tiles amongst other mapping platforms. If you lot follow the CartoDB tutorial, specially the banknote on tweaking the NYPL Map Warper URL for the map tiles, you lot should survive able to easily operate out how you lot tin add together a NYPL historical map to a Leaflet, Mapbox or Google Maps API map.

As an lawsuit of displaying i of the maps amongst Leaflet.js I've added the NYPL's Railroad Map of the U.S.A. to my growing map of  Map Tiles for Leaflet.