OpenHistoricalMap

Awesome work putting JFK on the map! I notice you were using only Bing Maps aerials when drawing.

I have a custom 1996 NYC imagery source that could help making these old building footprints more accurate:

https://maps.nyc.gov/xyz/1.0.0/photo/1996/{z}/{x}/{y}.png8

Note, you can swap out the "1996" with 1924, 1951, 2001-2, 2004, 2006, 2008, (all even number years afterward) to access other aerials.

Thank you so much! The help is greatly appreciated!! I have been hoping to link aerials like the ones from NYC for a long time now but have had a lot of trouble linking them up. How do I link the aerials to the map?

To load that aerial, you open the Background panel (on the right side of the iD editor), at the bottom of the list of aerials, click Custom, and paste that URL in.

All of them are pretty well-aligned except for the 1951 one, which you'll have to offset manually.

Thanks! For some reason, when I do that, the aerial imagery renders as all black, with no imagery displayed. I tried opening the link in Google but get an error message stating, "We're Sorry.
You have reached an outdated or non-existing page."

Am I doing something wrong?

Strange. Perhaps you have a browser or content blocker extension that is interfering with connecting to the tile server.

I just tested that the custom background loads in Chrome (on Windows) and Safari (on Mac). Admittedly, I got the same issue you had last night loading the aerial on my Mac, but it seems to be working today after restarting the computer.

Opening the link directly won't do anything; I get the same error message.

Here are some screenshots of the aerial working on my end, to confirm the tile URL is in the right place. https://imgur.com/a/fIldK2A

It's working! You are a miracle worker! Thank you so much!!

Awesome! Let me know if you have any issues switching to the other imagery years. The full list of years you can switch out in that source URL above are as follows.

1924
1951 (needs significant offset)
1996
2001-2
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018