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Nov 3, 2020 · The British Library is making available 40,000 maps dating between 1500 and 1824, which will be freely available online for the first time. They are part of the Topographical Collection of King George III (K. Top), and included maps, atlases, architectural drawings, cartoons and watercolours.
Then and Now: historic and modern maps comparison swipe and location finder. View full size map. Use the swipe feature to compare a map of Whitechapel in 1899 with today. We’ve also created an interactive index to make it easy to find streets and locations that no longer exist.
Jul 13, 2020 · The world map was turned with east on top, centered on the ancient city of Balasagun (Kyrgyzstan), showing the Caspian Sea to the north, and Iraq, Armenia, Yemen, and Egypt to the west, China and Japan to the east, Hindustan and Kashmir to the south. Blue lines symbolize rivers, red lines for mountains.
A very quick survey of world map history, for one thing, with stops at many of the major historical intersections from Greek antiquity to the creation of the Catalan Atlas, an astonishing mapmaking achievement from 1375.
The British Library plans to post 40,000 of these maps (broadly considered), and you can now view the first set of roughly 18,000 at the institution’s Flickr Commons collection.
‘Atlases from the Maritime Museum’ (many hundreds of maps and sea charts from the composite Atlas Van Loon in the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, viewable in ‘medium’ res. and zoomable to high res., comprising parts of various atlases by Blaeu, e.g. 6 vols. of the Dutch edition of the Atlas Major (Koeman Bl 57), 5 vols of town books (Northern and ...