The team at Cartifact Labs are moving the tool to beta v1.1 today. I wrote about the first beta back in March.
This new release enhances our current Los Angeles maps and adds maps of Manhattan,while extended lens tool features are currently under development.
In LA,we’ve assembled an incredibly detailed map of 1887 LA and added it to the innovative lens tool. In NYC,we present a building level detailed map of Manhattan below Central Park. The lens tool for New York features a Historic tab with an 1865 Sanitary &Topographic map for the Council of Hygiene which shows all the original water courses of Manhattan Island and is from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Online map exploring takes on new dimensions with another lens tab showing Oblique 3D Buildings rendered by Union Design for CB Richard Ellis.
The launch coincides with Where 2.0 where Cartifact Labs Director Bruce Daniel will be conducting a workshop on “Thinking about Map Design”and presenting to the conference a personal survey of visually rich maps.