Historic Maps of London(layersoflondon.org)

34 pointsby pizzicato5 tahun yang lalu5 comments

https://www.layersoflondon.org/

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schuyler2d5 tahun yang lalu

Also similar for New York and NYC: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/maps-of-new-...

and a fun way to navigate some of them: https://maap.columbia.edu/place/then.html That was a project I worked on in ~2006 when Google Maps was more 'new'. At the time I was very proud because Google Maps still had a 'jumpy' zoom interface and I wanted it to feel immersive to 'enter' the maps by 'falling' into them.

Later that year, Google Maps added the same feature, which I don't attribute at all to this project, but it was cool to do it before them.

paganel5 tahun yang lalu

A similar thing for the former Habsburg Empire and then for Austro-Hungary can be found at this link [1], zooming in/out, panning and clicking on the different red circles should give one a general idea of the available old maps.

[1] https://maps.hungaricana.hu/en/map/?layers=google-hybrid%2Cv...

merrvk5 tahun yang lalu

I've spent hours on here before observing the changes around my flat. Crazy how much stays the same as the 20's/30's

twic5 tahun yang lalu

As christmas presents, i got paper maps of the area where i live from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. Over that period, it went from farmland with a few roads through it to a dense suburb. There are some fascinating details, like a tile kiln which presumably supplied a lot of the neighbourhood (there are very distinctive tiles in some estates), and patterns of old land use still present in the shape of the streets today.

merrvk5 tahun yang lalu

That's a great idea as a present. How little the street patterns change over the years is fascinating.

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