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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
Collections
433,000 sheet maps ~ 25,000 books & atlases ~ 13,000 digital maps
Global to the Local ~ Antiquarian to the Contemporary
Antiquarian maps (to the late 15th c): 1,000’s of sheets, 100’s of atlasesTopographic maps: more than 200,000 sheetsProperty maps (approaching architectural scale): 10,000’s of sheets
NYC Property maps:Fire Insurance MapsSheet MapsZoning MapsFarm MapsHistorical Topographic MapsHistorical Nautical Charts
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
Users
Geographers ~ Cartographers ~ Geographic Information ScientistsArtists ~ Curators of Art ~ Art HistoriansFiction Writers ~ Nonfiction Writers ~ PoetsUrban Archaeologists ~ Historic & Landmark PreservationistsGeomorphologists ~ Landscape Ecologists ~ Environmental ScientistsSocial Historians ~ Economic Historians ~ Infrastructure HistoriansArchitects ~ Architectural Historians ~ Historic PreservationistsAdaptive Reuse Architects ~ Landscape Architects ~ Urban PlanningComparative Urban Studies
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Digitization1997-2001 ~ LHS Collection~ Mid-Atlantic -1850 ~ NEH ~ 700 maps2003-2004 ~ Austria Hungary ~ Maps 1:75,000~ 1877-1914 ~ IMLS ~ 800 maps 2004 ~ NYC Early Fire Insurance Atlases ~ 1852-1854 ~ METRO ~ 200 maps2005-2009 ~ NY State County Atlases ~ 19th Century ~ NYPL ~ 2000 maps2005-2009 ~NYC Fire Insurance Atlases ~ 19th and 20th c. ~ NYPL ~ 3000 maps2010-2012 ~ NYC Atlases and Maps 19th and 20th c. ~ NEH ~ 7200 maps
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Once Digitized… What then?
How can we add value to these resources?
How can we make these maps more useful to our readers?
One answer for us was to build a web based georectification and tracing toolkit
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Google Earth Indexes
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
http://nycatlases.blogspot.com/
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Maps.nypl.org ~ Georectification and Vector Toolkit2008NYPL funded
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Maps.nypl.org ~ Georectification and Vector Toolkit2008NYPL funded
Parallel Database of Maps
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Maps.nypl.org ~ Georectification and Vector Toolkit2008NYPL funded
Map Warping
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Maps.nypl.org ~ Georectification and Vector Toolkit2008NYPL funded
Map Cropping
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Maps.nypl.org ~ Georectification and Vector Toolkit2008NYPL funded
Map Mosaics
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Maps.nypl.org ~ Georectification and Vector Toolkit2008NYPL funded
Interoperable.kml.wmsGeotiff (soon!)
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
http://nycatlases.blogspot.com/
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Maps.nypl.org ~ Georectification and Vector Toolkit2008NYPL funded
Map Tracing.shp.kml.csv
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Maps.nypl.org ~ Georectification and Vector ToolkitLeverage tools and Collections into an NEH grant, NYC Historical GIS Project2009-2012
Digitize:Remaining 7,200 public domain maps of NYC
~ 6,200 NYC fire insurance atlas maps~ 1,200 NYC (borough-level) sheet maps
Georectify:2,000 previously digitized fire insurance atlas maps
Trace:1,000 maps as vector built structures with attributes
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Geographic Flipbook
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Geographic Flipbook ~ Google Earth 2011
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Geographic Flipbook ~ Bernard Ratzer 1776
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Geographic Flipbook ~ Thomas Poppleton 1817
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Geographic Flipbook ~ William Perris 1852
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Geographic Flipbook ~ Elisha Robinson 1885
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Geographic Flipbook ~ George Washington Bromley 1916
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
New ways of meeting new user expectations
Geographic Flipbook ~ Google Earth 2011
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Talking CartographicallyMatthew Knutzen
Curator of Maps and Geospatial [email protected] @mattknutzen @nyplmaps
November 30, 2011
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
Questions or Comments?