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: Rennes as of 1500. Right: The same location today.

On this day

Selected establishments and disestablishments on December 9:

1824: The Intendancy of Huamanga is dissolved after the dissolution of the Viceroyalty of Peru.
1844: The Coventry–Leamington line is open to the public.
1912: The streetcar line on Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver, British Columbia is extended to Windsor Road.
1949: A schützenhaus closes in Bad Belzig, Germany.
1962: Tanganyika becomes a republic, one year after independence from the United Kingdom.
2000: Muñoz becomes the first Science City in the Philippines.
2016: Suseo High Speed Railway is opened in South Korea.