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Friday, April 23, 2021

Vintage Map Styles - Remix Edition


Earlier this calendar month Mapbox unveiled a novel vintage map fashion created alongside Mapbox Studio. You tin sack larn to a greater extent than virtually Mapbox's Vintage map as well as how it was created on the Mapbox blog.

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 likewise uses a color system designed to mimic the worn discolored newspaper of many antique vintage maps.


Jonah Adkins was inspired past times the Mapbox Vintage map fashion to practise his New Map of the United States (Github). You tin sack sentiment the map itself alive here. Jonah is likewise responsible for the as pretty Back two School interactive map. The Back two School map fashion is based on an onetime map of North America that Jonah constitute inward Charlottesville.


Another remix of the Mapbox Vintage map fashion has been created past times Nathan McKinley. The New Zealand Vintage Map fashion is based on an onetime Japanese map of New Zealand. I peculiarly similar the interactive map insets of Wellington as well as Auckland on Nathan's map.