How the New York Public Library Digitizes Its Vast Collection of 435,000 Maps

Posted by Jean-Yves on Aug 28, 2015
 

While much of the city’s mapping community is focused on creating something new, a great deal of energy also goes into recovering maps that are quite old.

The New York Public Library, the spiritual heart of the city’s mapmaking community, is gradually putting online its vast collection of 435,000 maps. Using a software program called “Building Inspector,” more than 1,000 users are manually inputting information or checking contained on old maps that computers can’t easily handle, such as street addresses.

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