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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Use

Go to the main map and navigate to a place and time of interest using the time slider. Share the map to spread the word about our project. Explore the many ways you can reuse OpenHistoricalMap in your own storytelling and software projects.

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. Please report any issues and send us your ideas on GitHub or our forum.

Then and now

From OpenHistoricalMap's community projects:

Left: City limits of San Jose, California, as of March 1968. Right: The same location today.

On this day

Selected establishments and disestablishments on October 19:

1466: Under the Second Peace of Thorn, the State of the Teutonic Order renounced its claim to Royal Prussia.
1825: A new Eden Chapel opens in Cambridge, England.
1904: El Cayo is declared a town in British Honduras.
1911: The Andrew D. Gwynee Institute opens in Fort Myers, Florida.
1929: In the Tajik Autonomous SSR, Dyushambe is renamed Stalinabad after Joseph Stalin.
1938: In the Philippines, Bacolod is inaugurated as a charter city.
1958: The Rochambeau Bridge opens, carrying U.S. Route 1 over the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Virginia.
2017: La Place opens in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands.

Statistics

7.6M
dated elements
2,497k
buildings
632k
railroad miles
51
average age
1991
average year
2,257
contributors

Source: QLever, Planet
October 2, 2026

Historical statistics

News

September 22, 2026: Database statistics are now calculated using QLever.
July 23, 2026: You can make advanced edits right inside your Web browser using Level0.
July 10, 2026: You can filter search results by the city, region, and country.

Older news

Events

October 27, 2026 – October 29, 2026: State of the Map LatAm in Mexico City
November 2, 2026 – November 4, 2026: FOSS4G North America in Sacramento, California
November 10, 2026: Sand Lake Historical Society meeting in Sand Lake, New York
November 16, 2026 – November 22, 2026: Conear Ayacucho at the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, Peru