ChROnoScOpE WOrLd
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A map says to you, ‘Read me carefully,
follow me closely, doubt me not.’
It says, ‘I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
Without me, you are alone and lost.’
– Beryl Markham, West with the Night /via
Chronoscope World is a time machine to explore the history of the world by browsing maps dating back to 14th century B.C. More than 4,400 high-resolution maps can be displayed in a maps application on the correct geo location.
OpenHistMap: Love this project - please check it out... I think you will, too!
Watch the demo to get a quick introduction:
Chronoscope Demo (5 minutes)
The search command finds the best fitting maps for the current view port. Results are presented as previews on a map table:
Search maps and show map table
All outlines can be displayed at once for a fast overview. Filters can be applied for a time interval, the map scale or the library’s signature:
Show map layout and set filters
Jessica Kirsten: Looking for some stuff of a certain area along the Alster many many years back,
I am thoroughly enjoying this a-ma-zing archive of old Hamburg city maps!!!
More detailed info is available at the Time Traveler’s Help Page.
ChronoAtlas
ChronoAtlas is a web portal to access the meta data for historical maps in the collection of Leibnitz Institut für Länderkunde in specific. You can search and filter for any kind of information.
About Chronoscope World v2.13 (Jan 2023)
Chronoscope World is based on Chronoscope Hamburg by broadening the perspective to the entire planet and by incorporating approx. 1,200 historical maps of the Leibniz Institut für Länderkunde IfL. Several libraries have digitized and opened up their map collections, and provide means to use the maps inside the Chronoscope. As a result more than 4,000 high-quality maps from more than 42 institutions have been made available.
- About
- Help pages | System requirements | Release Notes
- Feedback
- A Brief Chronology of the Chronoscope Universe – a working paper since Apr 2017
Legal Statements
- Chronoscope Hamburg (v2.x) copyright by Matthias Müller-Prove 2016 - 2023
Chronoscope World (v2.x) copyright by Matthias Müller-Prove 2018 - 2023 - IIIF Server : Leander Seige, manducus.net
- Memory Dots patented by Kai Krause
openGLAM :: Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums
The mapsLeibniz Institut für Länderkunde e.V.Creative Commons Zero
HK maps
The maps by Det Kgl. Bibliotek are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0
DK maps
The maps by Harvard Library are provided for personal, noncommercial teaching and research use
HL maps
Maps provided by Stanford Libraries are public domain
SU maps
The maps by Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
e.g. HH maps- All openGLAMs
Selected Projects of the Chrono Research Lab
MosesTrek – from Egypt to Palestine
Chrono CityTour
Project Sternschanze – global tracking of the remains of star fortifications
Chronoscope Hamburg – interactive time-travel in Hamburg on more than 333 old maps
ChronoAlex – Alexander von Humboldts Erforschung der Neuen Welt
HAPAG Ahoi! – travel photography 1909-39
> Oswald Lübeck Kontaktabzug
> Franz Grasser Kontaktabzug
ISS Live
Social Media
chronoHH@norden.social
ChronoHH – browse on twuko
Chrono Research Lab
Chronoscope Hamburg
Chrono Hamburg
Twitter Tag Cloud
Monetary Support
The historic time rides provided by the Chrono Research Lab are a free service by Matthias Müller-Prove. On the other hand this means that I do have some expenses on traveling across centuries. You can support this trip by donating a little tip:
à propos
cover BY-NC-SA Novus Atlas Sinensis a Martino Martinio