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  • Time Traveling with OHM
  • The Entire History of Human Warfare
  • NYC's oldest maps blaze paths to the past and future

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /1 month ago

Time Traveling with OHM

Today I've been playing with OpenHistoricalMap and exploring how it can be used to create a map that visualizes how a country's borders have changed over time.History is rarely sta...

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /4 days ago

The Entire History of Human Warfare

Launched in late 2025, Prakrit Ojha's War Atlas is an interactive map that visualizes more than 8,500 historical battles. Spanning from 1500 BC to the present day, it offers an imm...

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abc7.com /2 weeks ago

NYC's oldest maps blaze paths to the past and future

The New York Public Library has a vast collection of more than 400,000 maps. The maps show where the city has been and where it's going.

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openstreetmap.org /1 month ago

Open historical Map

Waiting for someone to do Portland on OHM. About 90% of the people reading this will go “What is Open Historical Map!?”. It’s sadly never used… I wish it was updated more often…

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /3 weeks ago

Jerry's Map Interactive

Most maps capture a moment in time. Jerry's Map has spent more than sixty years doing the exact opposite.Jerry's Map is the life's work of artist Jerry Gretzinger, who began drawin...

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abc7ny.com /1 month ago

Oldest maps of New York City show where we've been, where we're going

And what's on the maps from so long ago is just as important as what is not on them.

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /3 weeks ago

Bending the Chart to Fit the Road

Mapping Collision Density Along the A1 More than 350 years ago, cartographer John Ogilby transformed the way travellers navigated Britain. His famous strip maps ...

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /3 weeks ago

The Rise and Fall of National Rail Networks

Germany - The German Rail Network from 1835 Until Today Ireland - Irish Railway Stations 1834-2000 Switzerland - A Journey Through the History of Swiss Railways&a...

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flowingdata.com /3 weeks ago

Large scale hand-drawn, fictional map

Jerry Gretzinger started a map of a fictional city in 1963 with eight…Tags: fiction, Jerry Gretzinger

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blogs.loc.gov /1 month ago

Condominiums: Exploring Jointly Ruled Territories Through Maps

This blog post explores examples of current and historical condominiums and how they are depicted on maps.

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /1 week ago

How to Turn Interactive Maps into Vector Graphics

This world map may look like an interactive map but it is actually an image. It is an SVG map of the world that I created in a couple of seconds using Polygrid Map2SVG.One of the g...

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /1 week ago

How Maps Save Lives

Fifty thousand people were killed on February 6, 2023, when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern and central Türkiye and northern and western Syria. The Night the Earth Shook...

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /1 month ago

Dual Maps Goes 3D

Dual Maps, an old Maps Mania favorite, has undergone a bit of a makeover this week. As you may have heard, Google recently removed its classic 45° bird's-eye aerial imagery from th...

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /2 weeks ago

Make TikTok-Ready Video Maps

At first glance, AniMaps appears to be very slick.It’s a route animator with built-in video export, and it feels made for sharing travel clips on social media. Dr...

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /2 weeks ago

The Bureaucracy on Which the Sun Never Sets

This interactive map traces the journeys of thousands of civil servants who travelled across the globe to administer the British Empire. It turns out that extracting the wealth and...

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blogs.loc.gov /1 month ago

Calling the Cotton Press: Fire Insurance Maps of a Mississippi Delta Town

Fire insurance maps reveal a lot about the industrial history of cities and towns of any size. Sanborn fire insurance maps of a particular Mississippi Delta town in 1925 reveal an...

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jamaicainquirer.com /1 month ago

How the shape of a map can determine the US midterm elections 

Before the 2026 midterms, at least eight states – California, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, ...

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /1 week ago

Mapping the Light: Sunrise & Sunset

Sunrise and Sunset is an interactive map that displays the sunrise and sunset times for any location on Earth, for any day of the year. It also visualizes the sun's altitu...

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blogs.loc.gov /2 weeks ago

Participate in G&M’s First Map Transcription Project!

The By the People crowdsourced transcription program invites volunteers to transcribe and review texts from the Library of Congress digital collections. The first Geography and Map...

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mynbc5.com /1 week ago

Map Room

Browse local forecast maps

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /1 month ago

The Geography of Country Names

There’s a pretty clear geographical split in what different countries call Greece. In most of Europe, the name comes from the Latin Graecia. But across North Africa, the Middle Eas...

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flowingdata.com /2 weeks ago

Two centuries of planning Washington

Monuments and buildings in Washington were planned and placed over a couple centuries…Tags: buildings, District of Columbia, history, Upshot

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /1 month ago

The Climate Physics of Planet Earth

Building Earth is a new interactive map that explains how the Earth's climate has developed over millions of years through the lens of physics. The map strips the planet back to it...

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googlemapsmania.blogspot.com /1 month ago

Project Hail Mary - Mapping the Astrophage

Navigating the Stars of Project Hail Mary Warning: may contain spoilers for Project Hail MaryOne of the joys of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary is how convincingly it blends spec...

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