The History Maps Of The Week

It has been a expert calendar week for fans of history maps, alongside the unloose of 2 interactive maps dedicated to mapping the world's history.

First out of the blocks was Chronas. Imagine Google Maps alongside a appointment command which allows you lot to sentiment an atlas of the globe for whatever catamenia inwards history. That is the ambitious aim of Chronas.

Chronas allows you lot to sentiment an interactive map of the globe showing the province boundaries for whatever appointment from the yr ane AD to the yr 2000. If you lot direct a yr from the fourth dimension slider, running along the bottom of the map, the map volition update to exhibit how the globe looked at the chosen time.

Each of these historical maps is fully interactive. If you lot click on a province or geographical expanse on the map a Wikipedia article on the selected historical portion volition opened upwardly inwards the map sidebar. For example, if you lot direct the yr 573 AD from the fourth dimension slider, you lot tin direct the Visigoths portion on the map to acquire to a greater extent than nigh the Visigoths from Wikipedia.


Also released this calendar week was American Panorama, a superb novel historical mapping projection from the University of Richmond.

You may retrieve that final yr the academy released an interactive mapped showcase of the nearly 700 maps inwards the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. That interactive map allows you lot to sentiment maps from Charles O. Paullin in addition to John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, published inwards 1932. The Atlas contained hundreds of maps roofing a vast arrive at of social, economical in addition to political aspects of life inwards the Untied States, all of which tin similar a shot last viewed on summit of an interactive Leaflet map on the university's website.

Richmond University has similar a shot unveiled a novel projection to map of import themes in addition to events inwards American history. American Panorama currently has iv interactive maps exploring the early on history of the United States. The start iv maps from the projection in addition to thence far are; The Forced Migration of Enslaved People, The Overland Trails, Foreign-Born Population in addition to Canals.

There volition last many to a greater extent than maps to come upwardly exploring other aspects of American history.


Two Thousand Years of Urban Growth is a 3D globe visualizing the history of population alter roughly the globe over the final 2,000 years. The map was made past times Esri using their novel ArcGIS API for JavaScript alongside D3.js.

City populations roughly the globe are shown on the globe alongside 3d bar charts placed over each city. The timeline slide command allows you lot to adapt the appointment inwards gild to sentiment the metropolis populations for unlike dates throughout history. If you lot direct a city's bar on the globe you lot tin likewise sentiment a trouble nautical chart showing the city's population over the final 2,000 years.