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https://pastmaps.com https://pastmaps.com Been working on this as a new way to find, explore, and view old historical maps and aerials of my area. Still heavil

by Soupy 3y ago

https://pastmaps.com https://pastmaps.com Been working on this as a new way to find, explore, and view old historical maps and aerials of my area. Still heavily in development but have been surprised by some early traffic stats (1-2K organic uniques / mo and growing 200%+ m/m right now) Hoping to add in more advanced map tooling within the next week or 2, including new basemap options, 3d terrain view, and then a proper search box which I've been pushing off for far too long

fhk 3y ago
Have you thought of running super resolution on the images?
- Soupy 3y ago
  I actually think that's a great idea! I considered doing it as part of my ingestion pipeline when starting out but honestly got a bit overwhelmed with all the options so put it on my backburner. Maybe I should take another look. I think it would be an awesome way to enable even more crisp zooming
nicolas_ 3y ago
That's really cool! Just wanted to share the following site as the city of Toronto created something similar a few months ago https://map.toronto.ca/torontomaps/ https://map.toronto.ca/torontomaps/
- Soupy 3y ago
  Amazing, just bookmarked this!
  - n00bskoolbus 3y ago
    Seems like it's the same app but Calgary has this too. The maps around the time of our big flood in 2013 are pretty interesting.
monero-xmr 3y ago
Obviously I want to buy a high quality print of the map focused on an area.
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andy800 3y ago
Damn, for a second I thought this was like weedmaps but for linguini (which would be an awesome site) and then I looked a bit closer. Still cool though!
ismokedoinks 3y ago
This is really cool, makes me nostalgic for a lot of time georeferencing random maps from the library of congress or from municipal archives etc. In that same vein, you could add a feature where users could contribute georeferenced map files for community review and approval--I think that would really increase your scalability. I see you have an email for that currently.
- Soupy 3y ago
  I love love love this direction. And yea, I have a basic email but I really think a super simple upload and maybe even dead-easy georeference tool for folks to contribute data is a no-brainer! I'm bumping this up on my backlog, thank you!
  - ismokedoinks 3y ago
    Amazing, can't wait to see where you end up! Let me know if you need a hand too. I love web mapping projects--I got into programming through QGIS/leaflet on the way to a couple degrees in GIS and urban planning.
adperry 3y ago
Your site is similar to https://www.oldmapsonline.org/ https://www.oldmapsonline.org/ I have found the ui for map difficult to use in the past.
- Soupy 3y ago
  Yea I used to use this site quite a bit but it is clunky as all hell. I found myself cobbling together my own tools or stitching 3-5 different resources together over time for my research and this eventually just led to me starting work on Pastmaps. I'm hoping I can build something far more comprehensive, modern, and intuitive
i-am-gizm0 3y ago
I love it! A suggestion for much further down the line: a timeline on the map which composites many maps from a similar time period so you can see them all stitched together (somewhat like how https://skyvector.com/ https://skyvector.com/ stitches together multiple sectional charts into a continuous map, though I know it can't be as seamless). Or you could attempt to run some extra processing steps to warp the map to match the background map's projection. Those are both big undertakings, though.
- Soupy 3y ago
  Very doable, these are called mosaics in the GIS world and it's actually not that crazy to do Really love this suggestion, I could see it making map exploration far easier since now you just need to explore by year instead of by map and by year (reducing dimensionality by 1!). Thank you, I'm going to chew on this a bit more but I really think there's something here
ckrapu 3y ago
I found a map of the area around my family’s farm in 1894 super quick. Awesome site!
tectonic 3y ago
This is super cool, thank you for making it!

by Soupy 3y ago

fhk 3y ago

Have you thought of running super resolution on the images?

Soupy 3y ago
I actually think that's a great idea! I considered doing it as part of my ingestion pipeline when starting out but honestly got a bit overwhelmed with all the options so put it on my backburner. Maybe I should take another look. I think it would be an awesome way to enable even more crisp zooming

nicolas_ 3y ago

That's really cool! Just wanted to share the following site as the city of Toronto created something similar a few months ago https://map.toronto.ca/torontomaps/ https://map.toronto.ca/torontomaps/

Soupy 3y ago
Amazing, just bookmarked this!
- n00bskoolbus 3y ago
  Seems like it's the same app but Calgary has this too. The maps around the time of our big flood in 2013 are pretty interesting.

monero-xmr 3y ago

Obviously I want to buy a high quality print of the map focused on an area.

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andy800 3y ago

Damn, for a second I thought this was like weedmaps but for linguini (which would be an awesome site) and then I looked a bit closer. Still cool though!

ismokedoinks 3y ago

This is really cool, makes me nostalgic for a lot of time georeferencing random maps from the library of congress or from municipal archives etc. In that same vein, you could add a feature where users could contribute georeferenced map files for community review and approval--I think that would really increase your scalability. I see you have an email for that currently.

Soupy 3y ago
I love love love this direction. And yea, I have a basic email but I really think a super simple upload and maybe even dead-easy georeference tool for folks to contribute data is a no-brainer! I'm bumping this up on my backlog, thank you!
- ismokedoinks 3y ago
  Amazing, can't wait to see where you end up! Let me know if you need a hand too. I love web mapping projects--I got into programming through QGIS/leaflet on the way to a couple degrees in GIS and urban planning.

adperry 3y ago

Your site is similar to https://www.oldmapsonline.org/ https://www.oldmapsonline.org/ I have found the ui for map difficult to use in the past.

Soupy 3y ago
Yea I used to use this site quite a bit but it is clunky as all hell. I found myself cobbling together my own tools or stitching 3-5 different resources together over time for my research and this eventually just led to me starting work on Pastmaps. I'm hoping I can build something far more comprehensive, modern, and intuitive

i-am-gizm0 3y ago

I love it! A suggestion for much further down the line: a timeline on the map which composites many maps from a similar time period so you can see them all stitched together (somewhat like how https://skyvector.com/ https://skyvector.com/ stitches together multiple sectional charts into a continuous map, though I know it can't be as seamless). Or you could attempt to run some extra processing steps to warp the map to match the background map's projection. Those are both big undertakings, though.

Soupy 3y ago
Very doable, these are called mosaics in the GIS world and it's actually not that crazy to do Really love this suggestion, I could see it making map exploration far easier since now you just need to explore by year instead of by map and by year (reducing dimensionality by 1!). Thank you, I'm going to chew on this a bit more but I really think there's something here

ckrapu 3y ago

I found a map of the area around my family’s farm in 1894 super quick. Awesome site!

tectonic 3y ago

This is super cool, thank you for making it!