Your Rootage For Vintage Map Tiles

I noticed yesterday that Wikimedia is using Tim Waters' Map Warper to geo-rectify onetime historic maps. This way that map developers accept some other non bad resources for accessing map tile schemes of vintage maps from approximately the world.

Today I used some of the geo-rectified vintage maps on Wikimedia to position together this piffling collection of old historical maps of Berlin.

The NYPL Digtial Collection together with the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection are ii other non bad resources to access map tile schemes of onetime historic maps.

If y'all persuasion a vintage map on the NYPL Map Warper website together with click on the 'Export' tab y'all tin honor the map's tile system URL, which tin together with then survive used alongside near of the pop mapping platforms, such equally the Google Maps API, CartoDB, Mapbox together with Leaflet.

Wiki Media together with the NYPL Digital Collections both role Map Warper. This way that if y'all desire to access the map tile system of an historical map on Wiki Media y'all merely ask to follow the same steps - click on the 'Export' tab together with re-create the map's tile system URL.

On the David Rumsey Historical Maps website y'all ask to choose a vintage map together with and then click on the 'Embed OGC WMTS tiles' link. Next y'all ask to choose the 'source code' link together with honor together with re-create the map tile system URL.

So, if y'all are looking for map tile schemes of onetime vintage maps from approximately the world, y'all could starting fourth dimension alongside these links:

David Rumsey Geoeferenced Maps
NYPL Map Warper
Wikimaps Warper