During the Coding Da Vinci Hackathon 2016, I've explored historical maps of Hamburg. This eventually led to the Chronoscope Hamburg to browse through time and space in the area of Hamburg.

On this page you can find some other projects dedicated to historical maps and urban culture.

Historical

Global

GeaCron

• e.g. Napoleon Wars

Leibniz Maps Project – Karten 1600-1900 des Leibniz-Instituts für Länderkunde

• ChronoAtlas
• Chronoscope World

Georg-Eckert-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung

Belgium

Brügge

• MAGIS Brugge | The Map | 21 other maps

France

• The Burgundy Historical Landscapes Working Group
• Paris

Germany

Berlin

• 1652 - 1930, ca. 50 maps rectified on OpenStreetMap

Hamburg

• Chronoscope Hamburg | project log /mprove
• Historische Karten von Christian Terstegge
• HyperBrand - Hamburger Brand 1842 /HyperImage Leuphana

more at Hamburger Sammelsurium

David Rumsey Map Collection:

• Hombourg est une forteresse considerable du comte de Sarbrick, 1695
• Hambourg : Ville Imperiale d'Allemagne
• Neuester Plan der freien Stadt Hamburg in Relief, 1845
• Hamburg, Bollmann 1964 /6 Karten in diesem Stil bis 2012

Netherlands

Amsterdam

• The water is so deep

Scottland

• National Library of Scotland

Spain

Barcelona

• Carta Historica Barcelona /via Visualizing Cities

Switzerland

• ETH Zürich Geodaten und Karten
• smapshot – geolocalize images

UK

London

• MAPCO: Maps of London
• London Old Maps
• Locating London’s Past | Mapping Methodology of John Rocque's 1746 map of London
• MarineLives
• Collage City of London – Over 250,000 images of London from the collections at London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery

USA

• St. Louis – Leaflet story Map :: Making of
• United States Geological Survey (USGS) Historical Topographic Map Collection
  • Historical Topographic Map Explorer

World

• UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Wikidata /via
• UNESCO World Heritage Site as Bubble Map /Guardian graphic
• World Heritage List (and map) by UNESCO

Contemporary

Hamburg

• Fleetmotion: Schiffsradar Hamburg
• Maps Mania: Mapping Building Height

Mapping Organizations

• Mapping ACM Germany /mprove
• Mapping IxDA Europe /mprove++
• Mapping IxD Education /Stefan Wölwer

Mapping Expeditions

• aufmerksam für das gewöhnliche /Sven Klomp & mprove
  • interactive map 12/2013
  • aufmerksam für innovation, WUD 11/2016
  • CLIC aufmerksam in Schwerin, CLIC 10/2016
• photo safari /mprove

Misc

• The last 36 yrs on Earth
• radio.garden – 8,000 radio stations

General

• Maps Mania
  • Putting News on the Map
• Hannes enjoys it

Tools

HyperImage, Leuphana

• Relationen im Raum - Jüdischer Friedhof Hamburg-Altona
• HyperMedia - Bildmedien der Französischen Revolution
• HyperTaxation
• HyperColumn

Google MyMaps

• [ ] Features to explore: Export to KML

QGIS

• Interview with Steven Bernard (Financial Times) on QGIS

Rectification

• Klokan Technologies GmbH /Switzerland

Zoom

• OpenSeaDragon

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