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.

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.

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.

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.

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.