For centuries, cartographers produced maps depicting California as an island, creating one of history's strangest ...

Previously only available for iPhone and iPad, it can now be used on Android smartphones and tablets as well.Google Pla ...

Pastmaps is a website that lets you peel back the surface of a city and see what it looked like decades, sometimes even ...

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What if GPS had existed in 1565? No satellites or microelectronics, sure—but let’s play along. Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps.

The genealogy project TreeAlive has given every ringfort, holy well, mass rock and castle in the National Monuments Service register its own page, pinned to historical maps going back to the 1750s.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...