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Title: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: Syt on June 25, 2020, 10:42:13 AM
https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurvey/

Can be overlaid with current Google Earth maps. :)

Title: Re: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: HVC on June 25, 2020, 10:50:29 AM
Spain and Portugal would like to have a word with you
Title: Re: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: Josquius 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.
Title: Re: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: The Brain on June 25, 2020, 11:18:32 AM
My God it's a barren, featureless desert out there!
Title: Re: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: Sheilbh on June 25, 2020, 11:20:12 AM
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:
Title: Re: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: celedhring on June 25, 2020, 11:20:27 AM
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.
Title: Re: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: fromtia on June 25, 2020, 11:55:11 AM
Very cool. London in 1890, a few years before the Martian attack.
Title: Re: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: Maladict on June 25, 2020, 12:02:06 PM
Very cool. I get all mushy and reactionary inside.
Title: Re: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: DGuller on June 25, 2020, 12:57:56 PM
Must've been nice to live during the times when there was no border gore.  :)
Title: Re: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 25, 2020, 01:01:25 PM
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.
Title: Re: Zoomable 19th century map of Europe
Post by: celedhring on June 25, 2020, 01:22:46 PM
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.