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Zoomable 19th century map of Europe

Started by Syt, June 25, 2020, 10:42:13 AM

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Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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HVC

Spain and Portugal would like to have a word with you
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Josquius

Cool. Hope they manage to cobble together more in the future.

I posted in the OTT this one for the UK a while back:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=5&lat=56.00000&lon=-4.00000&layers=1&right=BingHyb

Never ceases to amaze me just how small towns were back then. There was so much less of a difference between the big and small towns. Its like our cities have multiplied in size 10 times over, whilst the population has less than doubled.
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The Brain

My God it's a barren, featureless desert out there!
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Sheilbh

Quote from: Tyr on June 25, 2020, 10:54:46 AM
Cool. Hope they manage to cobble together more in the future.

I posted in the OTT this one for the UK a while back:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=5&lat=56.00000&lon=-4.00000&layers=1&right=BingHyb

Never ceases to amaze me just how small towns were back then. There was so much less of a difference between the big and small towns. Its like our cities have multiplied in size 10 times over, whilst the population has less than doubled.
Yeah. It's really, really weird looking at these and realising that where I am now was like the outer boundary of London about 100 years ago :mellow: :ph34r:
Let's bomb Russia!

celedhring

Quote from: HVC on June 25, 2020, 10:50:29 AM
Spain and Portugal would like to have a word with you

As the XIXth century motto goes: Africa starts at the Pyrenees.

fromtia

Very cool. London in 1890, a few years before the Martian attack.
"Just be nice" - James Dalton, Roadhouse.

Maladict

Very cool. I get all mushy and reactionary inside.

DGuller

Must've been nice to live during the times when there was no border gore.  :)

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Maladict on June 25, 2020, 12:02:06 PM
Very cool. I get all mushy and reactionary inside.

This sounds a little schizophrenic.

celedhring

Quote from: DGuller on June 25, 2020, 12:57:56 PM
Must've been nice to live during the times when there was no border gore.  :)

Not applicable to any timeline where the Austrian empire exists imho. Such an amorphous blob.