I'm a huge fan of the New York Public Library's Map Warper project. Using the tool people bring been digitally aligning the library's historical map collection together with therefore that the maps tin live on overlaid on modern interactive maps. The lawsuit is that yous tin straight off browse over 10,000 historical maps on the Map Warper website.
CartoDB this calendar week noticed that yous tin also purpose the map tiles from whatsoever of the over 10,000 historical maps inwards your ain interactive maps. They bring fifty-fifty posted a dandy tutorial, Using NYPL Map Warper maps within CartoDB, explaining the uncomplicated procedure of adding the map tiles from 1 of the New York Public Library maps to your ain CartoDB map.
Of class yous tin also purpose the Map Warper map tiles alongside other mapping platforms. If yous follow the CartoDB tutorial, specially the greenback on tweaking the NYPL Map Warper URL for the map tiles, yous should live on able to easily function out how yous tin add together a NYPL historical map to a Leaflet, Mapbox or Google Maps API map.
As an example of displaying 1 of the maps alongside Leaflet.js I've added the NYPL's Railroad Map of the U.S. of A. to my growing map of Map Tiles for Leaflet.
