Mapping Olde Novel York

Having used the New York Public Library's map collection to pose together a picayune Leaflet.js map of New York Vintage Maps I remembered that the library besides has a cracking collection of complimentary together with opened upwards access vintage photographs. I hence decided to accept wages of the library's collection of historical photographs of New York to add together roughly vintage photos of Lower Manhattan to the vintage maps of New York.

My New York Vintage Maps site hence immediately displays vintage maps which get got been georectified past times the New York Public Library's Map Warper project overlaid amongst former photos (and i or ii sketches) from the New York Public Library's Digital Collections.


My New York Map is manifestly inspired past times other cracking vintage map together with photographs sites such as Our Town Stories - Edinburgh together with Helsinki Ennen. The Helsinki map includes the selection to filter the maps together with photos past times decade, allowing you lot to stance the historical photos of the metropolis on a map from the same decade. In the futurity I promise to add together a like filter to the New York Vintage Maps collection.

The Maps Of The Week

Can yous run faster than a tiger? This novel WWF Tiger Challenge map lets yous compare your running information amongst that of a existent tiger.

The Worldwide Wildlife Fund are tracking the daily movements of a tiger inwards Russia. His daily rail is visualized on a Google Map in addition to shows the full distance traveled in addition to his average speed over the shape of the day.

To uncovering out if yous could vanquish the tiger inwards a running race yous tin connect your ain information from a issue of sports tracking apps (including Runkeeper, Nike+, Strava & Map My Run). Once you've added your information yous volition thence uncovering whether yous are equally fast equally a tiger or not. My advice is to cheat in addition to at to the lowest degree utilisation a bike when racing a tiger.


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few weeks agone CartoDB released CartoDB Heat Maps. This novel oestrus maps pick inwards CartoDB leverages the mightiness of the Torque library, which allows developers to efficiently homecoming in addition to issue really large datasets to the client.

CartoDB Heat Maps tin too go used amongst Torque to practise animated oestrus maps. Where this could go item useful is inwards visualizing weather condition information in addition to patterns. For example, check-out this map of historical Hurricane in addition to Tropical Cyclone Track Density. The map animates the rail density of hurricanes in addition to tropical cyclones from 2000-2013, using information from the National Climatic Data Center - NOAA.


Not to go outdone Mapbox has been playing amongst the latest update of Turf.js to practise animated oestrus maps of historical U.S. of A. of America hail data. Turf now includes powerful novel functions to aggregate dense indicate information into grids in addition to oestrus maps. Mapbox has created a demonstration of this novel oestrus map mightiness inwards a weblog post, Animated Heatmaps in addition to Grids amongst Turf.

The map non solely shows an animated oestrus map of historical hail information exactly too allows yous to thought the information equally animated hexbins, triangles, squares in addition to points. The map too includes the pick to thought the animated information inwards 3 unlike speeds.


Recently I've spent a lot of fourth dimension creating vintage map browsers amongst the Leaflet mapping library. I used the San Francisco Vintage Maps.

Well it turns out that Vestiges of New York has created a meliorate collection of New York vintage maps, too using vintage maps from both the NYPL in addition to the David Rumsey collection of historical maps. Their NYC Time Machine is really like to my map, except it has far to a greater extent than vintage maps of New York maps for yous to browse through.

The NYC Time Machine includes 27 vintage maps of New York, ranging inwards appointment from 1660 to 1924. The map includes a non bad pick to chop-chop switch betwixt your chosen vintage map in addition to a modern map, allowing yous to compare the vintage map to the modern streets of New York.

The Novel York Fourth Dimension Machine

Every fourth dimension I brand a skillful map I presently honour out that soul has done it better. Recently I've spent a lot of fourth dimension creating vintage map browsers alongside the Leaflet mapping library. I used the San Francisco Vintage Maps.

Well it turns out that Vestiges of New York has created a improve collection of New York vintage maps, using vintage maps from both the NYPL as well as the David Rumsey collection of historical maps. Their NYC Time Machine is really like to my map, except it has far to a greater extent than vintage maps of New York maps for you lot to browse through.

The NYC Time Machine includes 27 vintage maps of New York, ranging inwards engagement from 1660 to 1924. The map includes a bully pick to apace switch betwixt your chosen vintage map as well as a modern map, allowing you lot to compare the vintage map to the modern streets of New York.

New 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 convey instantly been georectified in addition to tin give the axe thence hold upwards overlaid on a modern interactive map.

New York Vintage Maps is a piffling collection I've set 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 give the axe browse through the sometime maps past times using the appointment buttons at the tiptop of the map.

To practise the map I used the Leaflet mapping platform in addition to but used the handily provided URL from the NYPL Map Warper website for the map tiles. To teach the URL for the map tiles from the Map Warper website y'all but ask to click on the 'View Map' link which is provided amongst each historical map. Then conduct the 'Export' tab. The URL for the map tiles is listed later the 'Tiles (Google/OSM scheme):' bullet point.

Mapping Infinite & Time

I beloved the New York Public Library Digital Collection too its Map Warper project. The library's novel project NYC Space/Time Directory sounds fifty-fifty to a greater extent than impressive.

Recently, spell spending a lot of fourth dimension exploring the library's historical map collection too vintage photographs of New York (during the making of New York Vintage Maps) I started thinking nearly what other historical records I could add together to the map. I began formulating the sentiment of a comprehensive map timeline exploring the history of New York. The exclusively occupation is I conduct maintain neither the fourth dimension nor the resources to undertake such a huge project.

I was thus over the Luna when I heard today of the launch of the NYC Space / Time Directory. The library are calling the projection 'a digital time-travel service for New York City' using historical maps, photographs, newspapers, occupation concern directories, literary references, census data, too much more. The library says it volition hold upward 'a searchable atlas of New York City's by stitched together from the pages of former maps. (Think Google Maps, amongst a fourth dimension slider)'.

The projection volition outset this year. For straightaway the library are quest for anyone who powerfulness similar to assistance to become far touch. To create the projection they desire to remove heed from interested information partners, developers & information wranglers too advisors.

The launch page for the NYC Space/Time Directory likewise makes nifty purpose of Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga's ScrollNYC. As yous scroll downward the project's launch page a serial of static vintage maps of New York appear in contrary chronological order.

The Magnificent Maps Of The Week

Last week's Maps of the Week round-up was dominated past times vintage New York maps as well as animated conditions maps. So I idea I;d shake-it upwardly a combat alongside this week's Magnificent Maps of the Week, which features vintage maps of New York as well as animated conditions maps.

I honestly hadn't intended to characteristic my own Gangs of New York map this week. However it does characteristic quite highly inwards the novel Most Read Posts of the Week listing (see the sidebar on the right), thence who am I to argue.

The map recounts a famous 19th Century New York gang battle betwixt members of the Dead Rabbits gang as well as the Bowery Boys, using an historical map as well as images from the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

I created the map using Leaflet.js as well as waypoints.js. Using waypoint.js alongside Leaflet allows you lot to trigger map interactions past times browser scrolling. The outcome is that you lot merely remove to scroll downwards the Gangs of New York map to progress through this retelling of the Dead Rabbits Riot.


Over the terminal calendar month at that spot has been or thence bang-up examples of mapped visualizations of conditions data. Weather-grid.GL is or thence other bang-up map visualization library, which plant peculiarly good when displaying atmospheric information on an interactive map.

The Weather-grid.GL website explains how you lot tin role the library to convert gridded information into LeafletJS WebGL overlays. The site likewise includes a link to the library's GitHub page as well as to a break of event maps created alongside the library.

This Intermountain West NDFD Grids alongside Leaflet WebGL map is in all likelihood the best event of the assort of impressive interactive conditions map which tin go created using the library. The map allows you lot to persuasion temperature, RH, air current speed as well as atmospheric precipitation layers on the map. With each layer you lot tin wheel frontward or dorsum through the conditions information inwards hourly increments as well as scout every bit the information updates close instantaneously on the map.


Last twelvemonth Jonathan Soma created a bang-up mapped visualization of unmarried men as well as women inwards the USA. The U.S. Singles Map shows the break of unmarried men as well as women inwards metropolitan statistical areas (major cities as well as their suburbs), allowing you lot to suit the results displayed on the map past times age.

The map is bang-up if you lot don't heed traveling halfway across the province inwards search of a partner - but non much role if you lot desire to uncovering a local date. Luckily Jonathan has got a combat to a greater extent than local alongside his latest 2 maps, showing where the singles alive inwards New York City as well as San Francisco.

The NYC Singles Map shows singles men as well as women organized past times zip-code as well as gender. The map reveals that inwards Manhattan at that spot are far to a greater extent than immature unmarried women than men. So if you lot are woman somebody as well as aged betwixt xx as well as 34 as well as alive inwards Manhattan your best bet is to commute out of the borough if you lot desire to appointment someone of your ain age.

If you lot are a immature unmarried adult woman inwards San Francisco as well as thence your luck is in. The Bay Area Singles Map shows that 1 outcome of the 'Google Shuttle Effect' is that the metropolis is total of immature unmarried men. The province of affairs inwards San Francisco entirely actually changes when you lot movement the historic menses ranges to somewhere to a higher identify the historic menses of 50. Once you lot larn to these historic menses ranges most of the Bay Area shows a lot to a greater extent than unmarried women, although much of San Francisco remains dominated past times unmarried men inwards this historic menses range.

The Vintage Maps Of San Francisco

Last calendar month I posted nearly how yous tin exercise interactive maps from the historical maps inwards the New York Public Library map collection. Thanks to the library's Map Warper projection over 10,000 historical maps induce got immediately been georectified in addition to tin thus survive overlaid on a modern interactive map.

Today I discovered that the amazing David Rumsey Map Collection besides has a projection to georectify the thousands of vintage maps inwards the David Rumsey online map library.

I've thus been busy searching the David Rumsey Map Collection for vintage San Francisco maps which induce got already been georectified. I so created a Leaflet map which allows yous to browse all the historical maps I discovered. The consequence is Vintage Maps of San Francisco.

The David Rumsey Georeferencer tin survive used to overlay whatever static map on pinnacle of a modern interactive map. The georeferencer tin besides plainly survive used to georeference whatever of the vintage maps inwards the David Rumsey online map library.

After maps induce got been georectified using the georeferencer they tin so survive displayed using an interactive mapping library past times linking to the created maps tiles. To direct grip of the URL to the map tile system of a detail vintage map yous take away to start uncovering the map inwards the collection. For example hither is the page yous teach later searching the David Rumsey Map Collection for 'San Francisco'. The results demo vintage maps of San Francisco inwards the collection.

You immediately take away to click on the vintage map yous wishing to operate inwards your interactive map. When the map opens if the map has been georectified at that spot volition survive an orangish 'View inwards Georeferencer' link inwards a higher identify the map. Click that link in addition to yous volition so survive taken to a page showing the vintage map overlaid on pinnacle of a Google Map. To teach the map tiles of the vintage map yous immediately take away to click on the 'Embed OGC WMTS tiles' link.

After this yous are presented alongside a selection of 3 dissimilar map transformations. Select the map transformation which yous require in addition to yous volition survive taken to a novel page which volition allow yous to stance your vintage map overlaid on your selection of interactive map library.

At this indicate yous tin only pick out your favorite map library in addition to re-create & glue the JavaScript code to exercise a map. You besides induce got the selection to embed a map past times selecting the iframe code for your map. However, if yous desire to exercise your ain map from scratch, yous tin besides select to stance the beginning code for whatever of the map libraries in addition to cutting & glue the URL system for your vintage map tile scheme.

How To Practise Interactive Vintage Maps

Today I was going to sit down downward as well as write a tutorial on how I created the Mapa. The map is a 1891 map of Bogotá, Republic of Colombia overlaid alongside pop-ups containing data nearly some of the city's prominent politicians at the fourth dimension (mapped to their habitation addresses).


The NYPL tutorial was written past times Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga. By some foreign coincidence Mauricio has every bit good been playing roughly alongside some of the same vintage maps of Lower Manhattan which I used inwards my New York Vintages Maps collection.

His ScrollNYC is a visualization of vintage New York metropolis maps from 1660 through to 1921. Each of the historical maps has been overlaid on summit of a static Mapbox modern map of New York. As y'all scroll downward the page each static map is replaced past times an older map inwards opposite chronological order.

Maps Of The Fortnight

It has been a placidity duo of weeks and, every mo at that topographic point was no Maps of the Week post service end week, this calendar week nosotros accept a Maps of the Fortnight post.

Helsinki Ennen is a collection of beautiful historical maps too photographs of the Finnish capital. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 time-line runs along the bottom of the map. Select a decade from the time-line too you lot tin forcefulness out thought vintage photographs of Helsinki from that decade overlaid on a map dating from the chosen era.

Many of the photographs are likewise displayed side-by-side alongside the same thought every mo it is seen today, using Google Maps Street View. This allows you lot to run into how the metropolis has changed over the course of written report of the Twentieth Century.


This year Chris Whong created an impressive interactive map from New York Taxi Data. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 set out of other developers accept used the same data, collated past times Chris, to exercise their ain interactive maps.

The latest map of New York taxi journeys is NYC Taxi Map 2013. This 1 is an impressive example of using Google Maps with Google Cloud Dataflow. Using Cloud Dataflow the map geo-fences the taxi information past times New York neighborhoods. The final result is that you lot tin forcefulness out click on an expanse on the map to notice out the distribution of drop-off locations, the average fare, average tip percent too average set out of passengers of trips that started inwards each New York neighborhood.  


Schipol Go International is a map of all international destinations that you lot tin forcefulness out wing to from Amsterdam's Schipol airport.

The role of the Google Maps API styled map feature too custom information windows gives the map a vibrant design. The add-on of background audio to the map gets a piddling annoying exactly you lot tin forcefulness out plough the audio off. The map likewise include audio effects for each map interaction, which would locomote far less annoying on their own, too I estimate could fifty-fifty assist navigation of the map.

If you lot choose a goal on the map you lot tin forcefulness out larn a few facts virtually the selected location, such every mo the flying time, local fourth dimension too the set out of days a calendar week flights acquire out Schipol for the destination.

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.

Best Vintage Slippy Maps 2014

This twelvemonth at that spot has been a seat out of dandy examples of vintage historical map collections beingness digitized in addition to made available online using modern interactive map libraries. Here are a few of my favorite vintage maps released on the spider web inwards 2014.


This twelvemonth the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab released an interactive showcase of the nearly 700 maps inwards the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. Not entirely tin post away you lot thought all the maps using the zooming in addition to panning tolls familiar to online maps but the University of Richmond has added a seat out of interactive features that update these historical maps for the digital age.

The collection includes many famous maps, including Charles O. Paullin in addition to John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. The interactive features allow you lot to inquiry the maps yesteryear location. Mouse-over whatever of the rates of go maps in addition to you lot tin post away thought the distance from New York at that place in addition to the estimated historical go time.


The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is a dandy means to explore the growth of US cities using USGS historical maps.

Click on the modern Esri map of a place in addition to all the available USGS historical topographic maps of the surface area are shown inwards a timeline beneath the map. If you lot pick out a map from the timeline it volition in addition to so hold upwards overlaid on the modern map. You tin post away so go through the timeline of historical maps to disclose how towns in addition to cities accept developed over time.

The map includes an opacity slide tool so that you lot tin post away accommodate the transparency of the overlaid historical maps. The timeline beneath the map tin post away also hold upwards adjusted to increase the size of the map.


Virtuelles Kartenforum 2.0 is a collection of over 2,500 geo-referenced historical German linguistic communication maps.

Using the Virtuelles Kartenforum portal you lot tin post away search for an historical map yesteryear name. You tin post away also search yesteryear appointment make in addition to yesteryear location. To search yesteryear place you lot tin post away pan in addition to zoom the map in addition to all the available historical maps inside the electrical flow map bounds volition hold upwards listed inwards the map sidebar.

Select an historic map from the results in addition to you lot tin post away thought it every bit an overlay on an OpenStreetMap. You tin post away overlay every bit many historical maps over the modern map every bit you lot similar in addition to you lot tin post away command the opacity of each map that you lot accept added.


Another dandy collection of historical maps has been released yesteryear Edinburgh Library. This collection includes historical stories, photos in addition to maps most life inwards the Scottish capital.

Our Town Stories - Edinburgh is a dandy showcase for about of Edinburgh Library's collection of historical documents, photographs in addition to maps. My favorite seem of Our Town is that you lot tin post away thought historical photos of the metropolis genuinely overlaid on your selection of historical maps of the city.

The map includes a handy time-line characteristic which allows you lot to search through the stories, photos in addition to maps yesteryear date. Enter a appointment make on the time-line in addition to all the documents for that flow are shown on the map using categorized markers.


Another dandy collection of historical metropolis maps was History Map: Bath. Bath is a beautiful city, sum of beautiful Georgian buildings. Now it also has a beautiful historical map website.

I've seen a lot of historical map websites and History Map: Bath stands out every bit ane of the amend designed visualizations of onetime maps. This Leaflet.js created map allows you lot to thought 8 historical maps of the city, ranging from the 1500′s to the 1940′s.

The site allows you lot to thought the historical maps on pinnacle of the modern map of Bath using a magnifying drinking glass lens overlay. Alternatively you lot tin post away switch to thought each of the historical maps inwards full-screen mode. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 map inset also provides a lilliputian information on each of the historical map overlays.


Helsinki Ennen is about other collection of beautiful historical maps in addition to photographs, this fourth dimension for the Finnish capital. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 time-line runs along the bottom of the map. Select a decade from the time-line in addition to you lot tin post away thought vintage photographs of Helsinki from that decade overlaid on a map dating from the era.

Many of the photographs are also displayed side-by-side amongst the same thought every bit it is seen today, using Google Maps Street View. This allows you lot to run across how the metropolis has changed over the course of report of the Twentieth Century.


The Seventeenth Century mathematician in addition to philosopher Eilhard Lubinus was commissioned inwards 1610 to practise a map of Pomerania. Lubinus.pl has made the inspired determination to purpose Lubinus' beautiful Pomerania map every bit the footing for a guided tour of the region.

Mapy Lubinusa uses the Google Maps API to plow Lubinus' Seventeenth Century map into an interactive guide for visitors to modern twenty-four hours Pomerania. The edge of Lubinus' map is decorated amongst portraits of the 49 towns of Pomerania. Mapy Lubinusa has created ix guided tours, which you lot tin post away follow on the interactive version of the map, taking inwards all of the 49 towns featured inwards the map border.


This twelvemonth the London School of Economics released a novel online interactive map of Charles Booth's Poverty Map of London. The LSE's imaginatively entitled PhoneBooth application is an interactive version of Booth's poverty map of London.

Booth's map is overlaid on pinnacle of the modern OpenStreetMap of London. It includes a slide command so that you lot tin post away accommodate the opacity of Booth's map in addition to thought the modern street map of London beneath Booth's 19th Century poverty map. PhoneBooth also includes a map of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010. This enables you lot to compare Booth's 19th Century poverty map amongst the electrical flow social weather condition of Londoners on a street yesteryear street basis.


In the 19th Century Govan inwards Scotland was ane of the world's leading ship-building centers. Like many dockland centers Govan became an surface area pop amongst immigrants. The seat out of unusual ships coming into Govan,  coupled amongst the areas high employment, meant that Govan proved attractive to many immigrants.

Govan Scotlands's Melting Pot is a fascinating Google Map visualizing the dwelling addresses of unusual born individuals inwards Govan, using information from the 1881 census in addition to an historical map overlay. Using the map it is possible to thought the areas inwards Govan where immigrants lived. You tin post away fifty-fifty filter the results yesteryear nationality so that you lot tin post away disclose out where unlike nationalities liked to live.


Mapire is a Google Map interface that allows you lot to explore historical maps of the Habsburg Empire in addition to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The historical maps from the Second Military Survey (1806–1869) comprehend a huge surface area of Europe, from Republic of Austria inwards the due west to Romania inwards the east.

Using Mapire it is possible to thought maps from the Second Military Survey roofing the whole of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The map includes quick links to unlike regions inside the Empire in addition to a handy transparency tool, that allows you lot to accommodate the opacity of the historical map overlays.

It is also possible to thought the historical maps inwards 3d, using the Google public plug-in. The Google public thought allows you lot to explore the maps overlaid on the 3d terrain of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

New York Inward The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties wants to carry yous dorsum to the sounds of New York inwards the 1920's. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fourth dimension when the audio of playing children together with noisy radios competed alongside the dissonance of street traffic together with shop peddlers.

The Roaring Twenties uses the Google Maps API alongside a historical map of New York to map dissonance complaints submitted yesteryear New Yorkers inwards the the 1920's. The complaints render a fascinating insight into the types of sounds that were annoying citizens at the kickoff of the final century.

Even to a greater extent than fascinating is the inclusion on the map of vintage cinema shot inwards New York. This historical cinema allows the user to head to the street sounds for themselves together with likewise attain an insight into how New York looked xc years ago.

The X Best Audio Maps

Recently in that place has been a tendency to get married Google Maps Street View amongst well recordings. The combination of 360 grade panoramas amongst recorded well is an effective means for developers to correspond both the aural together with visual sense of locations roughly the world.  The Sound City Project, Night Walk inwards Marseilles together with Sounds of Street View are 3 practiced examples of websites which combine well together with imagery.

While the combination of Street View together with well recordings tin live on peculiarly evocative sometimes developers precisely desire to correspond the aural landscape of locations. Here together with therefore are some of the best Sound Maps from roughly the world:


From the insect chorus of the Kalimantan to the crooning baritone vocal of an Atlantic humpback whale, this map wants to serenade yous amongst the sounds of nature. The Nature Soundmap is a map featuring the sounds of nature captured yesteryear professional person nature recordists roughly the world.

Maps accept ever been a fascinating means to explore the globe. Satellite imagery together with Street View imagery accept made armchair exploring fifty-fifty to a greater extent than immersive. Add inwards the sounds of the monsoon inwards Kalimantan together with the soundscape of the Brazilian rain-forest together with yous tin most imagine that yous actually accept been transported to the other side of the world.


One of the most pop uses of interactive maps is to present how locations accept changed over time. The wonderful Historypin has been mapping onetime vintage photographs for a few years together with I've fifty-fifty had a larn myself at mapping vintage films on my There together with Then map.

The Historical London Sounds map is the start endeavor I've seen at mapping vintage well recordings. Using master copy BBC Radio actuality recordings the Historical London Sounds map allows yous to psyche to life on the street inwards London inwards the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's together with 1950's.


The Audio together with Acoustic Engineering Research Centre at the University of Salford wants to laid a well map of the world. To accomplish this the Centre is crowd-sourcing the procedure of mapping the aural landscape.

Sound Around You allows users to upload well clips to a Google Map either from the Sound Around You iPhone app or from a recording stored on your computer. One actually squeamish characteristic of the Sound Around You map is the purpose of Google Street View. When yous pick out a mark on the map, to psyche to a submitted well clip, where available a Street View window too opens.

Radio Aporee is some other crowd-sourced map of well recordings. Since 2006 the projection has been creating a well map allowing yous to psyche to well recordings from locations roughly the world.

Soundcities is nevertheless some other crowd-sourced database of sounds together with well maps from roughly the world, using institute sounds together with champaign recordings. It is possible to browse the submitted sounds yesteryear place on a Google Map. It is too possible to browse yesteryear mood. The Google Map includes a discover of well recordings made inwards lots of cities roughly the globe together with all the sounds tin live on listened to straight from the map.


The British Library Sound Maps is a squeamish collection of Google Maps featuring well recordings inwards a discover of dissimilar categories.

Users tin explore traditional music on the Music from India together with Traditional English linguistic communication Music maps. The Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust map features a discover of start mitt oral accounts from survivors of the Holocaust.

The British Library collection too includes well maps of wild animals recordings together with British regional accents together with dialects.


If all this noise is giving yous a headache together with therefore yous mightiness desire to psyche to the well of quiet recorded at locations roughly the world. The Museum of Modern Art, New York created a well map to accompany an exhibition celebrating John Cage’s 4’33” ( ordinarily known equally Cage's 'silent' piece).

MoMa's Share Your Silence map is a well map of user contributed recordings of 'silence' roughly the world. If yous desire to hear how quiet sounds inwards dissimilar locations roughly the globe yous tin only click on the map markers together with psyche to the submitted recordings straight from the map.

If Nosotros Were Dutch

This calendar week I actually liked the Newcastle Brown map If We Won. The map presents an alternate history of the USA, showing what towns too cities mightiness live on called straightaway if the USA hadn't won the War of Independence.

This forenoon I decided to convey a larn at creating a similar map. The consequence is New Amsterdam, a petty map of what New York mightiness await similar today if the Dutch were all the same inward charge. The map isn't close every bit expert every bit the Newcastle Brown map merely cracking for a couplet of hours work.

For the sake of speed I decided non to exercise my ain base of operations map tiles. Instead I used Google Maps Styled Maps to hand the map a slight vintage await too to take the Google Maps labels. I too thus used the Map Label library to add together my ain Dutch names to the map. I also added a few map markers to add together windmills, mountains too a shipping to the map.

The map exclusively took a couplet of hours thus it looks a chip ragged. It could live on improved past times changing the fashion of the map labels to brand them a chip to a greater extent than pronounced - similar on the If We Won map. The map marking icons also postulate a petty move on the transparency. If I had the fourth dimension the biggest improvement would live on to exercise too add together my ain vintage looking base of operations map tiles (but that's never going to happen).

Time Traveling Inwards Street View

Now that Google Maps are offering you lot the peril to larn dorsum inwards fourth dimension together with re-visit updated Street View imagery I idea it powerfulness last an appropriate 2nd to remind you lot of my ain Street View time-traveling map.

There together with Then superimposes vintage cinema footage on summit of Street View to assistance carry you lot dorsum to a dissimilar age. Using the map you lot tin sentiment vintage cinema of 1930's San Francisco, London inwards the 1920's together with New York inwards the 1900's. The map too includes a divulge of other vintage videos from locations across the globe, all of which you lot tin sentiment on the same scene today - every bit captured yesteryear Google Maps Street View.