Thursday, November 14, 2019

NYPL Map Warper

I followed up on a NYPL tweet about their Map Warper service. It's very cool!

Using their huge collection of digitized maps and atlases, you can "rectify" historic maps so they align with current ones. This is done in side-by-side windows by indicating a number of mutual "control points".





The results can be output in several formats, including as a .kml file which popped open my Google Earth program and nested itself over the aligned landscape. Cool!


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