"A time-coded map of the city of St Louis"

History of the Composite Map

The Composite Wayman map was created during the spring season of 2001. It was the joint effort of Prof. Jacqueline Tatom and Joseph Sheehan, who worked carefully with the details of each of the 6 Wayman Maps to create a composite map. This composite map features all 6 Wayman maps in a format that allows researchers to look and study the entire city of St Louis without the need for multiple maps, detailed bookkeepping, etc. PLEASE NOTE: This map is an original work and is not part of the original Wayman Collection.

Creation of the Composite Map

The Composite Wayman map was created with Adobe Photoshop 5.5. Using the original images at their original size and resolution, each map's border was erased and edited such that marker lines and other stray lines and dots were removed. Each map was paired with the map directly above or below it (i.e. Map 1 was paired with Map 2, etc) and those two maps were carefully joined so that as many common elements to the maps overlayed each other and the "new map" appeared to look just like one unaltered map. Then, each of the pairs of maps, three in all, were added to a new image, one by one, and carefully joined so that the map appeared to be a unique work and not the product of seperate maps.

Unfortunately, all elements in all of the maps did not line up perfectly, so some sacrifices in terms of accuracy had to be made. However, we feel that the final product is the best possible alignment of all 6 maps.

Downloading the Composite Map

The Composite Map can be downloaded and viewed. However, we are not presently able to create a map using a zoomable image format (MrSID). As soon as we are able to create a Composite Map in this format, we will make it accessible on this website. We can provide the Composite Map in its Raw Image form. This file is archived in a ZIP format, so use any ZIP utility program (such as Winzip) to unpack the contents.

Click here to download the Composite Map