Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Historical Map Collections


Historic Map Works has a great collection of antique maps, most of which can be viewed via a Google Maps interface.

The historic maps are overlaid on Google Maps. An opacity slider allows the user to adjust the transparency, so that the historical map can be compared to the modern map view underneath.

Also See

David Rumsey Map Collection - huge collection of historical maps.
HyperCities - collection of worldwide historical maps
Maps of Edinburgh, 1765-1945
Historiekaart - Historical Dutch maps from 1829 to 1949
Utrecht van Boven
Amersfoort 750 op de Kaart
Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps
Historical Maps of Tokyo
Historical Maps of Paris
Henry Hudson 400 - US historical maps
PhilaPlace - Philadelphia
Retromap - historical maps of Moscow

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4 comments:

Raf said...

and there's yet another huge but lesser knwon resource for historical maps and photos:http://cartotecadigital.icc.cat all of them downloadable as 300 ppi jpg (previous free registration to statistical purposes)

Anonymous said...

Aerial-photo of World War 2: http://wwii.sasgis.ru

Anonymous said...

Old maps of Moscow. On index page you can see old maps: Kaluga area and Crimea, Ukraine.

Euratlas said...

Map of the Roman Empire in DCCCLIII Ab Vrbe Condita, that is in year 100 AD, made by superimposing the Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data 100 over Google Earth.
http://tinyurl.com/7396s4v