You can still explore the first version of the map here: code.waag.org/buildings/. Then, there were 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands. Right now, there are 1,467,339 more: 11,333,878 in total. The new version of the map lets you see where new buildings have been built in the past 10 years.
And now it's a game as well! Guess the city! bertspaan.nl/buildings/play
The new map uses a combination of raster tiles and vector tiles to make sure all buildings will always be visible. You can't do this with just vector tiles: a single vector tile would be 10s of megabytes on low zooms. Raster tiles when zoomed out and vector tiles when zoomed in solves this!
12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it!
Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings
This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at @bplmaps.bsky.social. Apply by March 30th. #glam #maps 🗃️
www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c...
Do you mean using Allmaps Viewer to show a annotations (text, vector) on a georeferenced map? I have no plans adding that - although I don't think it should be very complicated to build, I do not want Allmaps Viewer to turn into a GIS viewer with lots of lines and points and colors.
What I will add soon: support for loading IIIF resources with embedded georeference annotations.
The original map caused my 5 minutes of internet fame.
