The Map Is Non The Territory, It's A Photo

On Monday, inwards The map is non the territory, it's a painting, I looked at how mapping platforms tin lavatory hold upwardly used to render an interactive interface to explore paintings inwards fine detail. Of course of written report if y'all are interested inwards using mapping platforms to explore pictorial representations y'all aren't confined to using paintings. You tin lavatory besides exercise interactive maps from photographs.


Bjørn Sandvik has written a nifty Leaflet plugin (code Showing Zoomify Images alongside Leaflet explains how y'all tin lavatory exercise map tiles from a photograph using Zoomify.

Using Bjørn's Leaflet plugin all y'all involve to exercise to exercise an interactive photograph map is Zoomify your photograph and provide the url to the Zoomify epitome folder. The consequence is a Leaflet map of your photograph which y'all tin lavatory pan in addition to zoom similar whatever other map.

Of course of written report i time y'all bring created your map from a photograph y'all tin lavatory add together other interactivity every bit well. For lawsuit y'all tin lavatory add together map markers or bounding boxes on the mapped photo. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 skillful lawsuit of this is the Boston Globe's One Year, One City mapped photograph.


One twelvemonth later the tragic bomb explosion at the Boston Marathon, The Boston Globe invited survivors, police, firefighters, EMTs, doctors, nurses in addition to runners dorsum to the complete work on Boylston Street to set for a grouping photo.

The paper in addition to hence used the Leaflet mapping platform to render an interactive graphic of survivors of the bombing of the Boston Marathon, using the photo.

The resulting One Year, One City  mapped photograph is a powerful testimony to the resilience of the people of Boston. By using the Leaflet mapping platform the Boston Globe has created an interactive photograph which y'all tin lavatory pan around in addition to inwards which y'all tin lavatory zoom inwards on individuals inwards the picture. You tin lavatory fifty-fifty click on the people inwards the photograph to larn a niggling to a greater extent than most their sense during end year's tragic events.


If y'all desire to exercise your ain photograph map tiles for the Google Maps API y'all tin lavatory purpose Photoshop alongside Bramus Van Damme's Photoshop Google Maps Tile Cutter Script. With the script y'all tin lavatory automatically cutting a rattling large epitome inwards Photoshop into tiles which y'all tin lavatory straight off purpose alongside the Google Maps API.

The script is available for download on Github. There is besides an lawsuit map on Github (screenshot above) alongside tiles created using the Photoshop Google Maps Tile Cutter Script.