Map Warper

Description

This application an image and map georeferencing or “georectification” service to warp or stretch them to fit on real world map coordinates. It is written in Ruby and Rails and was customised it with the OpenStreetMap project in mind, and is all open source

Potential Uses

Comparing two different timelines for an aerial image

Example Use Cases

Libraries and other institutions have used it, including the New York Public Library, Harvard, Stanford Universities, Leiden Archives (in The Netherlands), The DOE/NEPA (US Federal Government) and Wikimedia Commons.

NYPL Map Warper basemap to CartoDB, added an annotation for our Office, and slipped a boundary layer