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 Spanish kingdoms of Mexico in 1640. Right: The same location today.

On this day

Selected establishments and disestablishments on October 21:

1640: English Puritans establish Southold on Long Island, then part of Connecticut.
1921: Cadbury's Chocolate Factory opens in Claremont, Tasmania.
1937: The Cambridge Synagogue is consecrated in Cambridge, England.
1948: The Ottoman town of Beer Sheva (Beersheba) is captured by the Israel Defense Forces.
1958: The Eastern Expressway in Rochester, New York, is redesignated as Interstate 490.
1986: A bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi by Kantilal B. Patel is dedicated in Manhattan, New York.
2017: The Greenwich supermarket opens in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
2018: A Takasho bakery opens at noon in Osaka, Japan.

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