Vintage Map Styles - Remix Edition

Earlier this calendar month Mapbox unveiled a novel vintage map mode created amongst Mapbox Studio. You tin larn to a greater extent than near Mapbox's Vintage map together with how it was created on the Mapbox blog.

The map uses background textures together with bathymetry information to replicate how many vintage maps used detailed styling on the oceans surrounding bodies of land. The Vintage map too 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 mode to practise his New Map of the the United States of America (Github). You tin sentiment the map itself alive here. Jonah is too responsible for the every bit pretty Back two School interactive map. The Back two School map mode is based on an former map of North America that Jonah flora inwards Charlottesville.


Another remix of the Mapbox Vintage map mode has been created past times Nathan McKinley. The New Zealand Vintage Map mode is based on an former Japanese map of New Zealand. I especially similar the interactive map insets of Wellington together with Auckland on Nathan's map.