Chronoscope 2.9 Tutorial @mprove

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Chronoscope World is a time machine to explore the history of the world, browsing maps from the 13^th until the 20^th century. The new features of update 2.11 (Feb 2022) will be presented briefly on this page.

Maps

Chronoscope World 2.11 provdies access to 3,210 old maps. That’s nearly 50% more than a year ago in version 2.9.

User Interface

No UI

All toolbars can be hidden by pressing Alt Space – A 3 finger tap gesture does the same on mobile devices. This provides a clean view; for example to take screenshots.

Visited Maps

Visited maps at the History Bar: Visited maps are stored for a session and can be recalled: Press B (back) to open the table of visited maps. Press B again to reopen the previous map.

Multiple Maps

Segments at Main Bar: Some maps come in segments. Since Chronoscope 2.11 it is possible to display all segments simultaniously. Try it yourself with the Aletsch Glacier; Pressing the Segments button should open 5 overlapping map segments.

Click any map to activate it.
Alt-Click any map to send it to the back.
User the keys < and > to cycle through the stack of maps.

The maps are removed as soon as you open another map.
If you want to keep the map for a while – regardless of other map operations – you can pin the map.

Use key P to pin or unpin a map. An unpinned map will be removed automatically when it is no longer needed.
Use Shift P to pin all open maps.
Use Alt P to unpin all maps.
Use DELETE to remove the map immediateley.