The Changing Shoreline of New York City uses historical maps, from the New York Public Library’s collection, to explore how Manhattan has physically grown inwards size during its brief history. This fascinating await at the changing landscape of New York was created past times Laura Blaszczak during her internship at the New York Public Library.
As you lot scroll through this impressive storey map historical maps are used to demonstrate how Manhattan's many rivers, creeks, brooks in addition to bays convey been managed or fifty-fifty built over. These historical maps are overlaid on endure past times of a modern map of New York. Each has an opacity command that allows you lot to conduct compare the historical amongst the modern map of the metropolis to illustrate how Manhattan's landscape has changed.
BTW - I actually similar the push (which appears on this map when you lot stance it on a mobile device) that allows you lot to switch the browser's focus betwixt the map in addition to the scrolling content. This appears to convey been achieved past times adding in addition to removing the user's might to pan the map past times creating a unproblematic toggle map panning function.
