OpenHistoricalMap

OpenHistoricalMap goes beyond the present, mapping places throughout the world… throughout the ages.
No community is too small, no story too obscure to add to this map.
Everyone has something to contribute, including you!

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Contribute

To contribute to OpenHistoricalMap, go to the main map, zoom in to a place of interest, and click the “Edit” button. If you are familiar with editing OpenStreetMap, the OpenHistoricalMap editing experience is very similar. See the tagging guidelines for information on a few changes we’ve made to accommodate the time dimension.

We also maintain several software projects to facilitate map contributions and data reuse. Please report any issues and send us your ideas on GitHub or our forum.

Then and now

From OpenHistoricalMap's community projects:

Left: The World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Right: The same location today.

On this day

Selected establishments and disestablishments on November 23:

1248: Seville surrenders to Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon.
1640: Pisco is founded by the Spanish in Peru.
1762: Under the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the Kingdom of France secretly cedes Louisiana to Spain.
1878: The Western District is established in Belize.
1909: Governor José Vicente de Olmos School is established in Córdoba, Argentina.
1933: Kfar Haroeh is established in Mandatory Palestine.
1941: At 2 o’clock in the morning, the parts of Georgia within the Central Time Zone are moved to the Eastern Time Zone.
1943: During World War II, the Hotel Kaiserhof is destroyed in an Allied air raid of Berlin.
1982: In China, the State Council establishes Yangling District as a county-level district in Yangling town, Shaanxi province.
1995: Dave Severns and Andy Pease begin an annual outdoor Christmas display set to music in Sunnyvale, California.