20,000 old maps went creative commons, cool :)

Tuism

20,000 old NYPL maps just went creative commons! Check them out, some are gorgeous, use them! http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps

An examples, you're supposed to be able to see a high rez version but I haven't gotten it to work yet, not sure what the issue is...

Page:
http://maps.nypl.org/warper/maps/13506
Copy paste the below to see the image, it's saved in a weird database... format... Thing.
http://images.nypl.org/?t=w&id=464987

Would be great for assets - especially boardgames :)

edg3

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