Vintage Maps

This page tries to collect information about maps visualized in vintage style. This means, they look like an old sketchy map, a treasure map (de: Schatzkarte) or a pirate map (de: Piratenkarte), but with own or actual data.

Treasure/Pirate Maps:

• Treasure Map HSR - A Treasure-Map, created for the [HSR AppQuest 2013 http://appquest.hsr.ch/]: See Making Maps from OpenStreetMap Data.

QGIS

Showcases and Tipps:

• QGIS:
  • Blog "Vintage Map Design using QGIS" [1]
  • Master Thesis by Tabea Probst, ETHZ, 2013 [2], see "Schatzkarte"
• TileMill:
  • https://github.com/ajashton/pirate-map
  • https://github.com/Kotaimen/maps-ModernAntique
• Other showcases:
  • http://kartograph.org/showcase/italia/

Making boundaries (like from buildings) to make a hand-made effect.

• A ‘sketchy’ look to lines can be achieved by overlaying a number of line attachments with different smoothing values applied. By smoothing higher values, the lines are overlaid using the ‘multiply’ compositing operation. This make areas that overlap more appear darker.

 ::outline1, ::outline2, ::outline3, ::outline4 {
   line-join: round;
   line-color:#773d00;
   line-smooth: 0.05; 
   line-width: 0.5;
 }
 ::outline1{ line-smooth: 0.04; }
 ::outline2{ line-smooth: 0.06; }
 ::outline3{ line-smooth: 0.08; }
 ::outline4{ line-smooth: 0.10; }

Suitable fonts/typefaces:

• Aquiline
• Mutlu

Point-of-Interests

• For a pirate/vintage map, it is important to have plenty of POIs (like bars/restaurants/gardens) and have an "old fashioned" design icon and style it on the map.

See also:

• OpenStreetMap based on art maps
• Really old maps...: OldMapsOnline.org.