https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurvey/
Can be overlaid with current Google Earth maps. :)
Spain and Portugal would like to have a word with you
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.
My God it's a barren, featureless desert out there!
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:
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.
Very cool. London in 1890, a few years before the Martian attack.
Very cool. I get all mushy and reactionary inside.
Must've been nice to live during the times when there was no border gore. :)
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.
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.