The NYPL Map Library together with the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection supply a nifty resources for whatever developers who want to purpose historical map layers inwards their online maps. Last calendar month I created a even map using a historical map together with images from the NYPL Digital Collections.
My Gangs of New York even map recounts the famous battle betwixt members of the Dead Rabbits gang together with the Bowery Boys inwards the Five Points district of Lower Manhattan inwards the mid-Nineteenth Century. The map was created using Leaflet.js, waypoints.js together with a historical map together with images from the NYPL.
If y'all desire to create your ain even map using a vintage map layer together with then it is in all probability easier to purpose i of the existing even map templates, such equally Esri's Story Maps or CartoDB's Odyssey.js. Combine either of these even map templates amongst vintage map layers from the NYPL or David Rumsey together with y'all get got a powerful tool to explore together with explicate historical events.
Stacey Maples has provided a really interesting tutorial, Cartodb/Odyssey.js Tutorial for Making Story Maps, which provides a step-by-step guide explaining how y'all tin create a even map using Odyssey.js amongst an historical map layer from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
The tutorial takes y'all through how Stacey created a history map exploring the modern history of tattooing inwards San Francisco. Before next the tutorial get got a await at the finished Tattoo Map of San Francisco.
If Stacey's tutorial inspires y'all to brand your ain historical even map together with then y'all powerfulness desire to banking enterprise fit out Vintage Maps of San Francisco, which is a lilliputian collection of approximately of the georectified historical map layers of San Francisco available inwards the David Rumsey collection. The NYC Time Machine provides a like collection of georectified vintage maps of New York, from the NYPL Map Warper projection & the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
