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Citizen Cartography @NYPL: Exploring New York’s Past and Present

Attend this workshop to explore New York’s foregone eras while you use a set of tools the library has developed (available at maps.nypl.org) that enables librarians and the general public to add valuable geographic context to old maps.

The workshop will focus on the core activity of the website: georectification, or “warping” maps. This means overlaying digital images of historic maps onto a contemporary digital map (similar to Google Maps), transforming them into tiles of a virtual atlas.











When: Tue., Jan. 21, 2014 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Ave.
917-275-6975
Price: Free
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Attend this workshop to explore New York’s foregone eras while you use a set of tools the library has developed (available at maps.nypl.org) that enables librarians and the general public to add valuable geographic context to old maps.

The workshop will focus on the core activity of the website: georectification, or “warping” maps. This means overlaying digital images of historic maps onto a contemporary digital map (similar to Google Maps), transforming them into tiles of a virtual atlas.

Buy tickets/get more info now