OpenHistoricalMap

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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!



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: Seneca Village, a small community of former slaves on the West Side of Manhattan, as of 1844. Right: The same location today.

On this day

Selected establishments and disestablishments on June 7:

1631
St Paul's is consecrated in Hammersmith, near London.
1905
Norway gains independence from Sweden.
1924
The Hablingbo train station opens.
1927
Garden City is incorporated as a village in Michigan.
2000
The San Francisco Public Library Ocean View Branch opens in San Francisco.
2012
The Yeongdong Line opens in North Gyeongsang and Gangwon, South Korea.
2019
The Chinatown Museum opens in Lucky Chinatown, Manila.
Statistics
  • 1.9M
    dated elements
  • 455k
    buildings
  • 315k
    railroad miles
  • 129
    average age
  • 1935
    average year
  • 1,701
    contributors
News
April 27, 2025
OSM Building Viewer adds support for rendering an OHM building in 3D.
April 17, 2025
OpenRailwayMap has added a time slider and replaced OpenStreetMap demolished railways with OpenHistoricalMap data.
April 15, 2025
Follow our new Bluesky account.
April 10, 2025
The Nominatim API has moved to a new subdomain for consistency with OpenStreetMap.
February 12, 2025
QLever examples have been updated to reflect an improved data model for members of relations and ways and more metadata.


Events
June 19, 2025 – June 21, 2025
State of the Map U.S. in Boston


Policies and guidelines