There are a pose out of websites which let you lot to explore large collections of vintage maps from some the world. However I'm yet fond of the smaller dedicated websites which concentrate on providing access to vintage maps of a unmarried metropolis or town. Historical Helsinki is a non bad example of a vintage map collection of ane specific location.
Historical Helsinki may solely accept a few vintage maps for you lot to explore only the site is really good designed. The map interface includes a transparency tool which allows you lot to brand a instantly comparing betwixt the vintage maps on exhibit too the modern 24-hour interval (OpenStreetMap) map of Helsinki.
I peculiarly similar the footling introduction to each vintage map inwards the map sidebar. This introduction non solely gives a footling historical context to each maps' creation only also points out some of the interesting special contained inwards each map.
Helsinki Ennen is some other collection of beautiful historical maps of the Finnish capital. This ane also contains a pose out of geo-tagged vintage photographs of the metropolis every bit well.
H5N1 time-line runs along the bottom of the map. Select a decade from the time-line too you lot tin move persuasion vintage photographs of Helsinki from that decade overlaid on a map dating from the same 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 you lot to encounter how the metropolis changed over the degree of the Twentieth Century.
