HistoryForge: A WMS Integration Success Story

Working with the HistoryForge team we have gotten the mosaicked New Orleans 1895, vol. 1 edition into their web map interface! You can find it in the map overlays at https://sela.historyforge.net/forge. (Also admire the Robinson Atlas and other layers Elizabeth has added while you are there!) Some may recall this edition was the focus of our first georeference-a-thon this past summer. Happy to see it in use outside of OldInsuranceMaps.net! The best thing about this integration is that it spurred some development on the HF platform, so now any maps/mosaics from OldInsuranceMaps.net can be pulled directly in. No need to move files, etc. I have a feeling there will be more HF collaboration in the future!

On the tech side, I’d like to acknowledge Github user mindless-bureaucrat who added a WMS endpoint to TiTiler early this year (and of course endless appreciation for TiTiler’s core maintainer, Vincent Sarago). When they did, I knew it would be useful to us sooner or later, and HistoryForge is a wonderful first use. Now any sheets or mosaics from OldInsuranceMaps.net are available through this standard (get in touch if using layers that way interests you!).