I similar this map of Old Photos of Brooklyn. The map displays categorised historical photos of the New York City borough inward the place that the pictures were shot.
The map reminds me a niggling of the Portsmouth History Picture Map, inward its usage of photos for the actual map markers. The designer of the Portsmouth map, Emily Bennett, has written upward a tutorial on how she created that map.
Getting Creative alongside the Google Maps API covers a position out of interesting steps inward creating a custom Google Map, including custom map colors, menus, paradigm overlays, responsive design, code optimization together with validation. The tutorial too explains how to usage your ain images equally map markers. The tutorial shows how to usage .png images alongside transparent backgrounds together with how to railroad train the clickable expanse of the png together with then that solely the visible purpose of the paradigm responds to a user mouse-click.
