Back inwards 2008 I used the Google basis plugin to create a quick tour of the journeying Phileas Fogg takes inwards Jules Verne's Around the World inwards Eighty Days. To my surprise turned off past times Google).
I solely hollo my map straightaway every bit it provides a rather neat counterpoint to a novel Esri Story Map of Jules Verne's classic tale. Comparing my map to Sebastian Drexel's novel Around the World inwards Eighty Days map serves to highlight how far interactive map platforms direct maintain moved on inwards the final 7 years.
The almost hitting evolution for me is the relaxation amongst which y'all tin straightaway add together vintage maps layers to an interactive map. The major map libraries all straightaway render the selection to easily supersede base of operations map tiles amongst custom map tiles. The Google Maps API did direct maintain this selection 7 years ago. What has changed though is the wider availability of dissimilar maps layers.
You tin thought some of the to a greater extent than pop map layers available on this Map Tiles map. If y'all afterwards vintage map tiles thence y'all tin pick out handgrip of links to vintage map tile schemes from the NYPL Map Library together with the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Sebastian has used an 1812 map from the David Rumsey Map Collection to give his Jules Verne map a suitable 19th Century feel.
The other major evolution inwards the final 7 years is inwards what I telephone band narrative mapping. Esri's Story Maps platform and CartoDB's Odyssey.js both render relatively slowly ways for developers to painlessly create maps which say stories.
Drexel's Around the World inwards Eighty Days makes keen piece of occupation of Esri's Story Maps platform to follow Phileas Fogg's journeying some the populace on a map. As y'all scroll downwardly the page the map automatically follows Fogg's journeying some the populace spell the sidebar updates amongst relevant excerpts from the text.
