This twelvemonth the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab released an interactive showcase of the nearly 700 maps inwards the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. Not solely tin y'all persuasion all the maps using the zooming together with panning tolls familiar to online maps but the University of Richmond has added a publish of interactive features that update these historical maps for the digital age.
The collection includes many famous maps, including Charles O. Paullin together with John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. The interactive features allow y'all to enquiry the maps yesteryear location. Mouse-over whatever of the rates of locomote maps together with y'all tin persuasion the distance from New York at that place together with the estimated historical locomote time.
The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is a groovy means to explore the growth of US cities using USGS historical maps.
Click on the modern Esri map of a place together with all the available USGS historical topographic maps of the expanse are shown inwards a timeline beneath the map. If y'all pick out a map from the timeline it volition so last overlaid on the modern map. You tin thence run through the timeline of historical maps to discovery how towns together with cities convey developed over time.
The map includes an opacity slide tool so that y'all tin adapt the transparency of the overlaid historical maps. The timeline beneath the map tin also last adjusted to growth the size of the map.
Virtuelles Kartenforum 2.0 is a collection of over 2,500 geo-referenced historical High German maps.
Using the Virtuelles Kartenforum portal y'all tin search for an historical map yesteryear name. You tin also search yesteryear appointment make together with yesteryear location. To search yesteryear place y'all tin pan together with zoom the map together with all the available historical maps inside the electrical flow map bounds volition last listed inwards the map sidebar.
Select an historic map from the results together with y'all tin persuasion it every bit an overlay on an OpenStreetMap. You tin overlay every bit many historical maps over the modern map every bit y'all similar together with y'all tin command the opacity of each map that y'all convey added.
Another groovy collection of historical maps has been released yesteryear Edinburgh Library. This collection includes historical stories, photos together with maps virtually life inwards the Scottish capital.
Our Town Stories - Edinburgh is a groovy showcase for around of Edinburgh Library's collection of historical documents, photographs together with maps. My favorite facial expression of Our Town is that y'all tin persuasion historical photos of the metropolis genuinely overlaid on your selection of historical maps of the city.
The map includes a handy time-line characteristic which allows y'all to search through the stories, photos together with maps yesteryear date. Enter a appointment make on the time-line together with all the documents for that menstruation are shown on the map using categorized markers.
Another groovy collection of historical metropolis maps was History Map: Bath. Bath is a beautiful city, amount of beautiful Georgian buildings. Now it also has a beautiful historical map website.
I've seen a lot of historical map websites and History Map: Bath stands out every bit i of the ameliorate designed visualizations of former maps. This Leaflet.js created map allows y'all to persuasion 8 historical maps of the city, ranging from the 1500′s to the 1940′s.
The site allows y'all to persuasion the historical maps on tiptop of the modern map of Bath using a magnifying drinking glass lens overlay. Alternatively y'all tin switch to persuasion each of the historical maps inwards full-screen mode. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 map inset also provides a petty information on each of the historical map overlays.
Helsinki Ennen is around other collection of beautiful historical maps together with photographs, this fourth dimension for the Finnish capital. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 time-line runs along the bottom of the map. Select a decade from the time-line together with y'all tin persuasion vintage photographs of Helsinki from that decade overlaid on a map dating from the era.
Many of the photographs are also displayed side-by-side amongst the same persuasion every bit it is seen today, using Google Maps Street View. This allows y'all to run into how the metropolis has changed over the course of teaching of the Twentieth Century.
The Seventeenth Century mathematician together with philosopher Eilhard Lubinus was commissioned inwards 1610 to exercise a map of Pomerania. Lubinus.pl has made the inspired determination to role Lubinus' beautiful Pomerania map every bit the reason for a guided tour of the region.
Mapy Lubinusa uses the Google Maps API to plough Lubinus' Seventeenth Century map into an interactive guide for visitors to modern twenty-four hours Pomerania. The edge of Lubinus' map is decorated amongst portraits of the 49 towns of Pomerania. Mapy Lubinusa has created ix guided tours, which y'all tin follow on the interactive version of the map, taking inwards all of the 49 towns featured inwards the map border.
This twelvemonth the London School of Economics released a novel online interactive map of Charles Booth's Poverty Map of London. The LSE's imaginatively entitled PhoneBooth application is an interactive version of Booth's poverty map of London.
Booth's map is overlaid on tiptop of the modern OpenStreetMap of London. It includes a slide command so that y'all tin adapt the opacity of Booth's map together with persuasion the modern street map of London beneath Booth's 19th Century poverty map. PhoneBooth also includes a map of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010. This enables y'all to compare Booth's 19th Century poverty map amongst the electrical flow social weather of Londoners on a street yesteryear street basis.
In the 19th Century Govan inwards Scotland was i of the world's leading ship-building centers. Like many dockland centers Govan became an expanse pop amongst immigrants. The publish of unusual ships coming into Govan, coupled amongst the areas high employment, meant that Govan proved attractive to many immigrants.
Govan Scotlands's Melting Pot is a fascinating Google Map visualizing the abode addresses of unusual born individuals inwards Govan, using information from the 1881 census together with an historical map overlay. Using the map it is possible to persuasion the areas inwards Govan where immigrants lived. You tin fifty-fifty filter the results yesteryear nationality so that y'all tin discovery out where dissimilar nationalities liked to live.
Mapire is a Google Map interface that allows y'all to explore historical maps of the Habsburg Empire together with the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The historical maps from the Second Military Survey (1806–1869) encompass a huge expanse of Europe, from Republic of Austria inwards the due west to Romania inwards the east.
Using Mapire it is possible to persuasion maps from the Second Military Survey roofing the whole of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The map includes quick links to dissimilar regions inside the Empire together with a handy transparency tool, that allows y'all to adapt the opacity of the historical map overlays.
It is also possible to persuasion the historical maps inwards 3d, using the Google reason plug-in. The Google reason persuasion allows y'all to explore the maps overlaid on the 3d terrain of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
