The Buffalo News has created a dainty interactive map from an 1880 panoramic map of Buffalo, created past times E.H. Hutchinson. The Buffalo News interactive version of the map allows you lot to zoom-in together with explore this vintage oblique persuasion of the metropolis inward unopen detail.
The map includes a expose of map markers which supply information virtually about of the landmarks shown on the map together with about historical photos of the same landmarks. Each of these information windows also includes a link to a Buffalo News article on the selected location, from the newspaper's weekly serial on how the metropolis has changed over the concluding 138 years.
From 1880 to Today is a Leaflet.js version of a panoramic map from the Library of Congress collection. The Library of Congress owns over 1,500 vintage panoramic maps of towns together with cities across the United States. You tin do your ain interactive map from whatsoever of these Library of Congress panoramic maps using the IIIF manifest provided for each map together with the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in for Leaflet.js.
Leaflet-IIIF is a uncomplicated to role plug-in for creating a Leaflet based browser for IIIF manifests or images shared using the IIIF Image API. Using this plug-in you lot tin brand interactive maps from tens of thousands of manuscripts, paintings together with other images held past times about of the best known global fine art galleries, museums together with universities. And the Library of Congress.
I used the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in to do a Leaflet.js map of about other vintage panoramic map from the Library of Congress. This Sherbrooke Panoramic Map shows a 1881 panoramic map of the southern Quebec city. I worked out the latitude together with longitude of private buildings on the map past times using the Leaflet-Hash plug-in to do a dynamic URL for the map alongside the latitude together with longitude shown inward the URL for what always is at the midpoint of the map.
You tin also do a uncomplicated interactive map from whatsoever of the Library of Congress vintage panoramic maps using the antirubbersheeter tool. Antirubbersheeter is a novel spider web service which tin aid you lot do a Leaflet.js map of whatsoever image, alongside its ain co-ordinate system. The occupation alongside using an IIIF manifest equally your background map is that you lot hence necessitate to live out how to geocode points on your map if you lot desire to add together markers. Antirubbersheeter does all this for you lot past times creating a unique co-ordinate organization for your uploaded image.
This agency that you lot tin easily role Leaflet.js to brand interactive maps from vintage maps, fantasy maps, game basis maps or from whatsoever icon that you lot desire to use. It is actually slowly to role Antirubbersheeter. Just upload your image. Add a listing of places you lot desire to geocode on your image. Antirubbersheeter hence allows you lot to merely click on your icon to geocode the listing of places where you lot desire to add together markers.
When you've finished added locations to your icon Antirubbersheeter outputs the JSON of your geocoded locations, providing you lot alongside the co-ordinates for each of the places you lot desire to grade on your real ain Leaflet.js map.
Antirubbersheeter includes a demo map which you lot tin persuasion to encounter how this all industrial plant inward practice. I've also created a slightly simpler demo map which you lot mightiness abide by a picayune easier to live from.
