Awesome-Historic_al-Maps

OldMapsOnline search catalog that allows visitors to explore and discover the beauty of historical maps depicting a past geographical place of their interest

World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) is providing a collection of content and services that permit world historians, their students, and the general public to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales

Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reusing that information under open license. It publishes not just for individual human users, but also for search engines and for the widening array of computational research and visualization tools that support humanities teaching and research

The Pelagios Network connects researchers, scientists and curators to link and explore the history of places. It is a long-running initiative that links information online through common references to places

The World Historical Atlas is a world map which shows change of countries from the ancient time to the present time

Website of Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee (Cornell University), providing resources, links and information about Medieval Maps

Maps ranging from early maps of Asia to historical maps of Wisconsin and Milwaukee, and other American cities, states, and national parks

Chronoscope World is a time machine to explore the history of the world by browsing maps dating back to 14th century B.C. More than 4,200 high-resolution maps can be displayed in a maps application on the correct geo location

Includes:

: 30–40,000 maps, plans and views, both printed and hand-drawn, of all parts of the world

: Terrestrial and celestial globes dating back to 1600 and gores dating to 1544

: Geospatial data, cartographic applications, digital aerial photography and scanned-in historic map materials

: Cartography from the Middle Ages to the present

: Visual arts collections include paintings, drawings, prints and photographs

Extensive collection of maps from around the world including: Ordnance Survey maps, Maps of Scotland, County Maps, Estate Maps, Town Plans and views, Coastal/Admiralty charts, Military maps, Series maps, Bridges/Canals/Railways, Air Photo mosaics, Bathymetrical Survey, International/non-UK maps, and Atlases

Wikimedia has an extensive collection of maps. Make sure to search here

The Internet Archives has an extensive collection of maps. Make sure to search here

Maps and plans from 1485 to the early 1900s are covered in this collection, with a concentration around the 18th and 19th centuries. These include maps of America, Canada and the West Indies, plus military and political Foreign Office maps. There is also a collection of colourful maps of early England and Ireland

- The Bodleian holds nearly two million maps and around 20,000 atlases, including material dating from the 14th to the 21st century. The collection is international and includes maps from all over the world, although it is strongest in British material and maps from countries with a historical connection with the UK. There are early printed maps, town plans, manuscript estate maps, topographical series, scientific and geological mapping, sea charts, air charts and maps of the stars. These collections include:

: Almost 2,500 maps and atlases are available on Digital Bodleian, with more to come soon

Other map collections in the Bodleian: The Commonwealth and African Aerial Photograph Archive holds a part copy of the Ordnance Survey International Collection. This comprises approximately 1.5 million aerial photographs of countries in Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa, as well as parts of Asia and the Americas. These images were taken by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) mainly in the 1940s-1970s, to enable them to produce maps at ground scales of 1:30,000 to 1:50,000. Enquiries about this collection should be directed to the

The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, wall maps, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from around 1550 to the present

User uploaded collection of interesting maps

Collection of early maps, covering all parts of the world, sold by the dealer in La Jolla, California - mounted on the Stanford University Image Gallery

Maps, sketches and plans relating to various parts of the world where the different Protestant missions operated

16th century onwards, and with general coverage; most of the maps from the Rucker Agee collection

Images from the Cornell University Library Map Collection

Beginning in the late 16th century, the nascent cartographic publishing industry found a receptive market for pilot books and sea atlases, which provided collections of detailed charts and sailing directions for the most frequently traversed routes

Maps of the Western Front in the Great War depicting British and German trenches

WW2 Fortifications and related structures in and around Narvik, Norway

: Military intelligence maps and associated documents relating to East Africa

Over 1,200 images, maps and texts from the 18th and 19th centuries reveal contrasting experiences of life in the former British colonies

Scholars believe it was made around the year 1300 and shows the history, geography and destiny of humanity as it was understood in Christian Europe in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries

Images from the Map & Atlas collection covering all parts of the world with a strong focus on northern Europe

Archive of German mapping, different world atlases, national maps, topographical maps, road maps, panorama maps, railway maps, postal code maps, city maps and special maps; text in German and English

Collection of historical and georeferenced maps of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), with a focus on Central Germany and the period from 1700 to 1950

Maps of Switzerland and elsewhere, with a choice of resolution

covering The Netherlands and the rest of the world; offering groups of images with introductory text (in Dutch), including pages devoted to wall-maps (with the 1639 Colom map treated separately), the work of C. Claesz, water-feature mapping, the Atlas Van Schagen, the Goos 'Paskaart van Oost-Indi' (c.1658), etc

AWMC continues the work of the Classical Atlas Project that produced the landmark Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (R. J. A. Talbert ed., 2000). It continues to refine the geographic dataset (both cultural and physical) for the ancient Mediterranean world in partnership with Pleiades

WW2 Fortifications and related structures in and around Narvik, Norway

TORA consist of a geocoded register of historical settlement units in Sweden, and a linked open data service that connect historical sources and databases on the basis of geocoded settlements

Historic maps of London from before 1800 and maps from the 19th-century series of the Ordnance Survey, including the complete 1:10,560 series and selected areas of the 1:2,500 maps. The Ordnance Survey maps can searched by keyword, title or postcode. Website also contains a plethora of digitised primary sources throughout Britsh history

The ‘Aerial Archaeology Mapping Explorer’ map gives people access to a compilation of archaeological mapping data collected by Historic England, and its predecessor organisations, over a period of over 30 years. The archaeological mapping has been collected from a variety of modern and historic aerial photographic sources

(Requires UK University Log In) - Database viewer that includes a variety of Georeferenced Ordinance Survey Maps for the UK, as well as various modern basemaps, elevation and other data

The most detailed Ordnance Survey maps after the Second World War, including all scales of mapping - 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10,560 for Scotland and London, and just 1:10,560 scale mapping for all other parts of England and Wales. NLoS have just put online out-of-copyright maps, published over 50 years ago

An online, clickable interactive version of Matthew Paris' most famous map. Matthew Paris was a 13th-century Benedictine monk from St Albans in Hertfordshire who is renowned for his work as a historian, writer, artist, and cartographer. His maps of Britain were the most comprehensive of their time, featuring detailed depictions of the country's topography, including cathedrals, castles, ports, mountains, and rivers. Four of his maps still exist, with the most comprehensive being his manuscript, which includes the walls of Hadrian and Antonine. for more information from the British Library

14th C. map of Great Britian; The map is 115 cm x 56 cm in size on vellum, and consists of the coastline of the island of Great Britain, several smaller islands and parts of the coastlines of Ireland and the Continent. Rivers are depicted, and over 600 cities, towns and smaller settlements are represented by churches, fortifications or simple houses. Conventionally dated c. 1360 - c. 1370, it has been suggested on palaeographical grounds [Smallwood, 2010] that the map was made one or two decades after 1400

: The most comprehensive, publicly accessible collection of Ordnance Survey maps in the world

This is an up-to-date guide to the interpretation of the names of England's cities, towns and villages

The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These maps were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles, and are invaluable sources of detailed information about urban areas and town centres

This selection of maps and views traces the growing awareness of the form of British Isles and their place in the wider world from 800 to 1600

Comprehensive catalogue of Hampshire (UK) maps and related items, illustrated from the County Museums Service Collection, 2003

Over 1200 maps and plans of the capital: a fascinating collection brought together by the Victorian designer, Frederick Crace

The Charting the Nation image collection includes a wide variety of single maps and maps in atlases and other bound books, together with important manuscript and printed texts relating to the geography and mapping of Scotland from 1550 to 1740 and beyond

The Roy Military Survey of Scotland, known to its contemporaries as the 'Great Map', is a uniquely important historical cartographic document. It provides a uniform graphic snapshot of the entire Scottish mainland at a time when the landscape was beginning an era of rapid change. For many Highland areas, it is the most detailed and informative map that survives for the entire 18th century, and for all areas, the only standard topographic map prior to the Ordnance Survey mapping in the 19th century

Browse Idris Mathias' beautiful manuscript map of the lower Teifi Valley

Maps ranging from early maps of Asia to historical maps of Wisconsin and Milwaukee, and other American cities, states, and national parks

Containing over 100,000 names

💵 - Collection of historical maps from Maine and more

With material on Minnesota, the USA and the rest of the world

The New York Public Library is creating a digital time-travel service for New York City with historical maps, collections rich in geospatial data, and the public’s help. It makes urban history accessible through a set of resources including: a searchable atlas of New York past, an historical location directory and geocoder, a set of APIs and data sets, and a discovery tool linking NYPL collections together in an historical and geographic context

A classic, useful flowchart by XKCD

A guide to identifying fake maps as well as a list of known forgeries

Using ArcGIS (YouTube)

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A long running, general information site with information about old maps, both on the web and in the real world

A free, open-source desktop GIS used for creating, editing, visualising, analysing and publishing geospatial information. It is part of the OSGeo project and can be used in conjunction with other open-source geospatial products

ArcGIS Online is a completely web-based GIS useful for viewing, sharing and editing data. There is an increasing amount of published open GIS data that can be added quickly into the online map platform and some spatial analysis can be run on the fly. Requires an ArcGIS Online account, available as a University account or free personal account with limited credits

MapAnalyst is a software application for the accuracy analysis of old maps. Its main purpose is to compute distortion grids and other types of visualizations that illustrate the geometrical accuracy and distortion of old maps

Map Warper

Mapwarper is an open source map geo-rectification, warping and georeferencing application. It enables a user to upload an image, a scanned map or aerial photo for example, and by placing control points on a reference map and the image, to warp it, to stretch it to fit

HiRoNEx: Historical Road Network Extractor

A python tool for automatic, fully unsupervised extraction of historical road networks from historical maps

MapReader

MapReader is an end-to-end computer vision (CV) pipeline for exploring and analyzing images at scale. MapReader was developed in the Living with Machines project to analyze large collections of historical maps but is a generalisable computer vision pipeline which can be applied to any images in a wide variety of domains

desCartes

desCartes recognises roads on old maps, and converts them to vector lines that can be used in GIS applications and historical transport network analysis

Curating, georeferencing and exploring for IIIF maps. 100,000s of maps are available through IIIF, across libraries, archives and museums worldwide. Allmaps makes it easier and more inspiring to explore, georeference and work with collections of digitized maps

Historical Maps Vectorization Tools

A toolbox to vectorize fluvial corridor objects on historical maps

IMCoS is a Society of people of all ages who love antique and vintage maps. We are a group of collectors, dealers, librarians, academics and just plain enthusiasts who share their common interest through meeting each other and exchanging information through a quarterly Journal. We live in many different countries and the society has organised events in all five continents through its network of international representatives. The Society supports the study of cartographic history by contributing to lecture programmes and research projects. IMCoS has its share of experts but the great majority of us belong because we like maps, want to learn more about them and enjoy talking to enthusiasts with a similar interest

A free introduction to geo, "not a textbook."; A useful introduction to general geospatial terms, techniques and more

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