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Large Multi-Level Images & Maps

Instructions:  When viewing these images, you may zoom in or out by using a mouse wheel. Alternatively, to zoom in, left-click and to zoom out, shift-left-click.  (Sometimes a double-click is required.) To move the image, left-click, hold and drag.

About the Maps:  Each of these Maps came from the Library of Congress as a MrSid file (multi-resolution seamless image database requiring a MrSid viewer. I first converted each file to a TIF image format (some in excess of 100 MB in size). These TIFF files were then converted to either JPG or PNG image files of much smaller size (The Manhattan JPG image was the largest at 27 MB.) Finally to allow you to zoom in and out, each of these latter files was converted to a Microsoft Deep Zoom Composer Silverlight Visual Studio project.  Thus you will need the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in, the download of which you will be prompted if necessary.

The panoramas were crearted as described.

Maps

  • View  1858 Map of the Lower Mississippi River indicating plantation owners

  • View  1845 Map of New Orleans

  • View 1798 Map Of New Orleans (1875 copy and translation of original)

  • View 1856 Map of Florida

  • View  1885 "Aerial  View" of Tallahassee

  • View 1915 Map or Palm Beach and West Palm Beach Florida

  • View 1900-1910 (date unsure) "Aerial View" of Manhattan

  • View 1884 Birds Eye View of Deland Florida

Additional Maps not from the Library of Congress (but probably also in the Library of Congress)

Photos

  • View  Find the butterfly among the houses

  • View A collection of 84 buttons from COMDEX in the early 1990s.
         hover your mouse to see information about the button

  • View What used to be a small ranch/orange grove until late in  2004, was supposed to be a subdivision, but is now in 2009 overgrow with weeds, tall grass and all sorts of undergrowth--another busted real estate  bubble.  The area in question is most of the undeveloped land in the middle of the image. The background image was made up of 48 separate screen captures of a high resolution Google map combined into one image.  Then, using Microsoft's Deep Zoom Composer, an additional 137 photos taken on the property were placed on the background image at the approximate locations where they were taken.   Some images are on top of other images. These images were then processed by Microsoft's Deep Zoom Composer to produce the result you have here, which can be zoomed in and out or moved around with the mouse.  Even though the Google map had 2009 on it, the aerial photos appear to have been taken in 2005 or at the latest early 2006. At that time, the equipment barn, the cattle pens, and windmill had been dismantled and moved.  Also off-road vehicles had left their tracks on the land, and what had been a narrow band of trees along the right side of the canal running vertically on the map was now a barren easement for a proposed water line, not yet built.  Finally, although the photos are positioned approximately where taken, their orientation as regards the background may be off as much as 180 degrees (they wouldn't look so good upside down).

  • View Panorama of Fort Pierce, Florida taken August 16, 1926.  The street on the right that goes to the water is Atlantic Avenue. The original panorama was 39.62 in. x 7.38 in.  The image from which this zoomable one was derived was made from about five separate scans of the original panorama that were merged in Photoshop.  This result was then restored to its original grayscale coloring. Finally Microsoft Deep Zoom Composer was used to create the zoomable version. I am indebted to descendants of the Hilliard family of Okeechobee for allowing me to copy the panorama.

Planar And Rotating Panoramas

  • View Four Houses on Bayshore Boulevard

  • View From Downtown Tampa to Tampa General Hospital

  • View Davis Islands from the West

  • View 180 Degree Panorama of Lake Okeechobee from the pier at Okeechobee. The base image for this panorama is 106,055 pixels by 2,276 pixels.  It was stitched together from 55 photographs.  The resulting TIF image was 690 MB.  This panorama, because of the camera focus and lens focal length, shows a bit more detail than the 360 panorama from the pier listed below.  The stitching was done using Adobe Photoshop CS4.

  • View 220 Degree Panorama of the Gloucester, Massachusetts Waterfront viewed from the small pier behind the Gloucester House Restaurant.  When viewing this be sure to click on the Full Screen icon in the upper right-hand corner.  This panorama was made from 33 photos, hand-held, taken without the use of a tripod. Photoshop CS5 was used to stitch the images together with the resulting image processed with Microsoft Deep Zoom Composer.

  • View 170 Degree Panorama of the Boston Waterfront opposite Christopher Columbus Park and flanked by the Long Warf on the right and the Commercial Warf on the left.  This panorama was made from 17 photos, hand-held, taken without the use of a tripod. Photoshop CS5 was used to stitch the images together with the resulting image processed with Microsoft Deep Zoom Composer.

  • View Panorama taken from the Microsoft Office in Tampa on the seventh floor at 5426 Bay Center Drive and facing north.   The panorama was made from 34 photos taken with a hand-held camera without the use of a tripod.  They were taken trough a glass window. Microsoft Image Composition Editor (ICE) was used to stitch the photos together with the resulting image processed with Microsoft Deep Zoom Compose.

360 Panoramas

  • View 360 Degree Panorama of Lake Okeechobee from the pier at Okeechobee. The base image for this panorama is 202,810 pixels by 2148 pixels.  It was stitched together from 101 photographs.  The resulting TIF image was 1,276 MB.  It took Photoshop CS4 four hours to do the stitch and blending of the images,  It then required another hour of "manual" blending of various levels of the image that still showed vertical image boundaries.

  • View 360 HD Panorama of the intersection of Oak and Polk in Arcadia Florida on a quite Sunday morning.  Uses Microsoft's HD View.  If you don't have it installed, you will be prompted to download and install the free HD View browser plug-in. For the best effect, make the image almost fill the screen.

Pivot Collections

  • New Orleans French Quarter in 2006  You may sort the photos by street and view them in either grid or graph view. A double-click on a photo will bring up a Microsoft bing map of the location in birdseye view.

  • Photos of Tampa and the surrounding area by the Burgert Brothers Photography Studio from the late 1800s into the 1960s from the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System.  You may search the photo descriptions and arrange them by date.  There are more than 13,000 images in this collection. Start by clicking on one of the tiny images. You may then zoom in by clicking again or by using your mouse wheel to zoom in or out.   A double-click on the image will bring up the image from the library's site.  To learn about the collection or to purchase a large print of an image, go to http://www.thpl.org/thpl/history/burgert/.

  • Cirkut (panoramic) images by the Burgert Brothers.  There are 431 of these.  The same instructions above also apply here.

  • Photos of New Orleans from around 1910 into the 1990s taken by photographers Charles L. Franck and Albert Bertacci from the Historic New Orleans Collection. There are more than 10,000 images.  To learn how to search and view the collection, after the program opens click on the Instructions/Info link at the top. There is also a link to the Historic New Orleans Collection at the top. Like the similar collection for Tampa above, this is a wonderful collection.

Mosaics

  • New Orleans French Quarter Mosaic  Using the same images as in the above pivot collection, a mosaic of Jackson Square and the Saint Louis Cathedral is created. You may zoom in or out with your mouse wheel. Double-clicking will also zoom in. When you are at a moderate zoom, a click on a sub-image will produce a child window with information and a larger version of the image.  It also will have a link to view a birdseye view map of the area of the image.

  • Boston 2010 Mosaic  This mosaic of Faneuil Hall in Boston was created from 5000 images using AndreaMosaic and then made "zoomable" with Microsoft Deep Zoom Composer.  Further work was don in Visual Studio to do the actual zooming and writing code for the click event.  You may zoom in or out with your mouse wheel. Double-clicking will also zoom in. When you are at a moderate zoom, a click on a sub-image will produce a child window with information and a larger version of the image.  It also will have a link to view a birdseye view map of the area of the image.