Most map fans volition belike last familiar alongside at to the lowest degree about of the maps featured inwards this comprehensive Atlas of life inwards America. For illustration Paullin in addition to Wright's maps of rates of travel, which exhibit how long it took to locomote from New York to other locations throughout America at diverse points inwards its history, are reproduced to this day.
The University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab has straight off released an awesome online interactive showcase of the well-nigh 700 maps inwards the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. All of the maps bring been made interactive in addition to overlaid on the modern map of the U.S. (using Leaflet). Not solely tin forcefulness out y'all sentiment all the maps using the zooming in addition to panning tolls familiar to online map platforms exactly the University of Richmond has added a issue of interactive features that update these historical maps for the digital age.
So, for example, the rates of locomote maps tin forcefulness out last queried past times location. Mouse-over whatsoever of the rates of locomote maps in addition to y'all tin forcefulness out sentiment the distance from New York at that place in addition to the estimated historical locomote time. Or depository fiscal establishment tally out the historical maps of election results. Not solely tin forcefulness out y'all sentiment each of the maps overlaid on the Leaflet interface exactly y'all tin forcefulness out animate through the whole serial of election results maps from 1789 to 1927.
