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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Vintage Map Styles.


This calendar month nosotros convey been treated to ii novel vintage map styles.

Two weeks agone Thunderforest released a novel Pioneer map mode inspired past times early on American railroad maps. Thunderforest's novel Pioneer map tiles are based on their Transport vector map tileset. The Pioneer map uses "Western fonts, verdigris buildings as well as a express color palette" to replicate the mode of early on railroad maps.


Yesterday Mapbox unveiled their ain vintage map style. Mapbox's Vintage map mode was created inwards Mapbox Studio as well as the Mapbox blog has a useful post service on how the map was created.

The map uses background textures as well as bathymetry information to replicate how many vintage maps used detailed styling on the oceans surrounding bodies of land. The Vintage map too uses a color system designed to mimic the worn discolored newspaper of many antique vintage maps.