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

On this day

Selected establishments and disestablishments on June 4:

1742: The Ahlen post office opens in Ahlen, Westphalia.
1863: The Sixth Cathedral of Manila lies in ruin after an earthquake the previous day.
1936: The Wichita National Forest in Oklahoma is redesignated as Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and transferred to the Bureau of Biological Survey by an act of Congress.
1943: The Technical Institute and Free Library closes in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
1950: Carroll's Grove Speedway opens near Troy, New York.
2018: The Stone Tap restaurant closes in Hudson, Wisconsin.

Statistics

1.9M
dated elements
455k
buildings
315k
railroad miles
129
average age
1935
average year
1,701
contributors

Source: Overpass API, Overpass API, Planet
June 2, 2025

Historical statistics

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.