Boston's Changing Map

Mapbox has created an interesting visualization of how Boston's geographical footprint has changed through history. Coastlines of Boston provides 2 dissimilar historical views of Boston, equally it looked inwards 1788 in addition to 1898, in addition to allows y'all to compare these views to the map of Boston today.

The map is genuinely a bully demonstration of what tin move created using Mapbox Studio's novel dataset editor. The dataset editor allows y'all to add together in addition to edit geospatial information inside Mapbox's existing browser based manner editor.

The dataset editor allows y'all to add together information to your maps past times uploading CSV or GeoJSON files. It also allows y'all to add together or edit information straight on your maps using point, line, in addition to polygon editing tools. Once y'all accept uploaded in addition to edited your information y'all tin thus salvage the information to your map tilesets.

The Coastlines of Boston map was created past times importing historical maps of Boston into Mapbox Studio in addition to thus drawing merely about the historical coastlines. Once the coastlines were traced they were thus saved equally a map tileset. You tin read to a greater extent than virtually how Coastlines of Boston map was created on the Mapbox blog.