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: The African continent in 1925. Right: The same location today.

On this day

Selected establishments and disestablishments on October 26:

1838: Honduras declares its independence from the Federal Republic of Central America.
1939: Nazi Germany annexes Zichenau (Ciechanów), Suwalki (Suwałki), and Memelland (Klaipėda) and establishes the General Government in occupied Poland.
1954: The New York State Thruway opens between Newburgh and Westmoreland.
1955: South Vietnam is proclaimed a republic.
1957: A statue of Vladimir Lenin is unveiled in Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR.
1969: At 2 o’clock in the morning, the Central Time Zone is extended to include all of Kansas except for Sherman, Wallace, Greeley, Hamilton, and Kearny counties, which remain in the Mountain Time Zone.
2000: Israel Railways opens Tel Aviv–University station in Tel Aviv.
2007: The southern section of the Kallang–Paya Lebar Expressway opens in Singapore.
2020: In Jacksonville, Florida, Hemming Park is renamed James Weldon Johnson Park to honor a civil rights activist instead of a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War.

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