[HN Gopher] Historic Maps of London
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       Historic Maps of London
        
       Author : pizzicato
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-03-08 19:26 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.layersoflondon.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.layersoflondon.org)
        
       | schuyler2d wrote:
       | Also similar for New York and NYC:
       | https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/maps-of-new-...
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       | and a fun way to navigate some of them:
       | https://maap.columbia.edu/place/then.html That was a project I
       | worked on in ~2006 when Google Maps was more 'new'. At the time I
       | was very proud because Google Maps still had a 'jumpy' zoom
       | interface and I wanted it to feel immersive to 'enter' the maps
       | by 'falling' into them.
       | 
       | Later that year, Google Maps added the same feature, which I
       | don't attribute at all to this project, but it was cool to do it
       | before them.
        
       | paganel wrote:
       | A similar thing for the former Habsburg Empire and then for
       | Austro-Hungary can be found at this link [1], zooming in/out,
       | panning and clicking on the different red circles should give one
       | a general idea of the available old maps.
       | 
       | [1] https://maps.hungaricana.hu/en/map/?layers=google-
       | hybrid%2Cv...
        
       | merrvk wrote:
       | I've spent hours on here before observing the changes around my
       | flat. Crazy how much stays the same as the 20's/30's
        
         | twic wrote:
         | As christmas presents, i got paper maps of the area where i
         | live from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. Over
         | that period, it went from farmland with a few roads through it
         | to a dense suburb. There are some fascinating details, like a
         | tile kiln which presumably supplied a lot of the neighbourhood
         | (there are very distinctive tiles in some estates), and
         | patterns of old land use still present in the shape of the
         | streets today.
        
           | merrvk wrote:
           | That's a great idea as a present. How little the street
           | patterns change over the years is fascinating.
        
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