Making Vintage Panoramic Maps
The Buffalo News has created a squeamish interactive map from an 1880 panoramic map of Buffalo, created past times E.H. Hutchinson. The Buffalo News interactive version of the map allows you lot to zoom-in as well as explore this vintage oblique sentiment of the metropolis inwards unopen detail.
The map includes a pose out of map markers which furnish information most unopen to of the landmarks shown on the map as well as unopen to historical photos of the same landmarks. Each of these information windows also includes a link to a Buffalo News article on the selected location, from the newspaper's weekly serial on how the metropolis has changed over the concluding 138 years.
From 1880 to Today is a Leaflet.js version of a panoramic map from the Library of Congress collection. The Library of Congress owns over 1,500 vintage panoramic maps of towns as well as cities across the United States. You tin strength out do your ain interactive map from whatsoever of these Library of Congress panoramic maps using the IIIF manifest provided for each map as well as the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in for Leaflet.js.
Leaflet-IIIF is a uncomplicated to purpose plug-in for creating a Leaflet based browser for IIIF manifests or images shared using the IIIF Image API. Using this plug-in you lot tin strength out brand interactive maps from tens of thousands of manuscripts, paintings as well as other images held past times unopen to of the best known global fine art galleries, museums as well as universities. And the Library of Congress.
I used the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in to do a Leaflet.js map of unopen to other vintage panoramic map from the Library of Congress. This Sherbrooke Panoramic Map shows a 1881 panoramic map of the southern Quebec city. I worked out the latitude as well as longitude of private buildings on the map past times using the Leaflet-Hash plug-in to do a dynamic URL for the map alongside the latitude as well as longitude shown inwards the URL for what e'er is at the pump of the map.
You tin strength out also do a uncomplicated interactive map from whatsoever of the Library of Congress vintage panoramic maps using the antirubbersheeter tool. Antirubbersheeter is a novel spider web service which tin strength out assistance you lot do a Leaflet.js map of whatsoever image, alongside its ain co-ordinate system. The work alongside using an IIIF manifest equally your background map is that you lot as well as thence require to function out how to geocode points on your map if you lot desire to add together markers. Antirubbersheeter does all this for you lot past times creating a unique co-ordinate organisation for your uploaded image.
This way that you lot tin strength out easily purpose Leaflet.js to brand interactive maps from vintage maps, fantasy maps, game basis maps or from whatsoever ikon that you lot desire to use. It is actually slow to purpose Antirubbersheeter. Just upload your image. Add a listing of places you lot desire to geocode on your image. Antirubbersheeter as well as thence allows you lot to merely click on your ikon to geocode the listing of places where you lot desire to add together markers.
When you've finished added locations to your ikon Antirubbersheeter outputs the JSON of your geocoded locations, providing you lot alongside the co-ordinates for each of the places you lot desire to grade on your really ain Leaflet.js map.
Antirubbersheeter includes a demo map which you lot tin strength out sentiment to come across how this all industrial plant inwards practice. I've also created a slightly simpler demo map which you lot mightiness detect a picayune easier to function from.