#old-maps — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 BREAKING: Old maps get a fancy new label! 🎉 In a thrilling announcement that no one asked for, OldInsuranceMaps.net is now a "Charter Project"—because what else could make dusty maps exciting other than a buzzword makeover? 🤦‍♂️
https://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/08/oim-charter-project/ #OldMaps #CharterProject #BuzzwordMakeover #ExcitingAnnouncement #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

We’re excited to partner with @oldinsurancemaps #MapReader #Allmaps to build a new pipeline for extracting information from #OldMaps and preparing them for OpenHistoricalMap via #IIIF and @MapRoulette. Thanks to @nlnet for recognizing the potential in this big idea!

https://nlnet.nl/project/OHM-Mapreader/

This 1857 Sprague/Dripps map is just a thing of beauty. Just a little tiny detail here.
What are future generations going to use for history when everything has been recorded digitally, and there are no physical sources?

#OldMaps #Maps #AlbanyNY #LocalHistory #ErieCanal

Presented my paper about the “war maps” of tobacconist Battefeld at the 31 International Conference on the History of Cartography (#ICHC2026) in Prague.

Thank you Jitka Močičková and Eva Chodějovská for the wonderful organisation!

#historyofcartography #oldmaps #prague #vrijeuniversiteitamsterdam

🗺️ An Ottoman Map of #America, Mirliva Ali Şeref Paşa, 1894 #oldmaps

Zeigt her eure Features_ https://mprove.de/chrono3d?ll=15.79744,-97.2766&q=12.73142,-122.42479&z=3.57&r=26&t=31&m=SUgy650bb2848-66,LCg3291smf000074,HL54438854,HL5670484,LC73694933,HK0222&o=0.9&s=1&i=1&c=P

#HierSoAufDemSchirm #iiifmaps #oldmaps #glasperlenspiel #timetravel #chronomedia

Looking for old maps of the L.A. area?The L.A. County DPW has some great "Wall Sheets" that can lead you to other older surveys and maps. If nothing else, these Wall Sheets are an incredible snapshot of L.A. in the early 60s.

#OldMaps #History #Genealogy #LosAngeles

https://dpw.lacounty.gov/smpm/landrecords/WallSheets.aspx

Falls jemand wissen möchte, wo #Curaçao so liegt_ 🗺️ https://mprove.de/chrono3d?m=EZ133174&o=0.8&s=1

#oldmaps #iiifmaps #GERCUW

Neue alte Karte: Mir war so nach Ludwigslust heute >> 🗺️ https://mprove.de/chrono3d?m=MVPPNLHAS1231LWL63&o=0.95&s=1

#oldmaps #iiifmaps

Lutzenburgensis ducatus (1575) is back. New PermaLink <sic!> – new #IIIF entry point. 🗺️ https://mprove.de/chrono?ll=49.77292,4.65599&q=49.77817,4.37998&z=8.68&r=15&t=16&m=UG000010695811&o=0.95&s=1

#oldmaps #mapofTheDay #iiifmaps

#ChronoOutageEnd – Harvard maps are back. Harvard Libraries’ blacklisting of Germany has ended. Hooray! 🥳
https://mprove.de/chrono3d?ll=38.3384,7.38163&q=34.98208,-21.49592&z=3&r=10&t=18&m=HL8982491&c=lHL,k,r

#oldmaps #iiifmaps @IIIF

@Christianvater à propos #Minard >> https://mprove.de/chrono3d?m=BFbtv1b10484829h-51n&o=0.65

#oldmaps #dataviz

@pommerschergreif Nun als referenzierte Karte >> https://mprove.de/chrono?m=SPKPPN1943785228-7&o=0.8&s=1

#oldmaps

@LEOBW à propos :: flussauf 1852 >> https://mprove.de/chrono3d?m=BFbtv1b102338381-19&o=0.95&s=1&c=,A

#oldmaps

@pommerschergreif Ja, hab mal begonnen die Messtischblätter einzumessen. Peu-a-peu. Gut Ding will Chrono haben.

https://mprove.de/chrono3d?m=SPKSBB000395EE014B0000&o=0.8&s=1&c=,A,v$ll=54.32006,15.49873&q=54.68633,15.04412&z=8.06&r=82&t=85

#oldmaps @stabi_berlin

@pommerschergreif Zeitreisegrüße >> https://mprove.de/chrono?ll=54.24901,16.08222&q=54.28703,16.05256&z=11.97&t=18&m=SPKSBB000395EE012A0000&s=1&c=A

#oldmaps @stabi_berlin

Neue alte Karte vom Falkenstein :: Besitzverhältnisse am Falkenstein im April 1924 >> https://mprove.de/chrono?ll=53.56709,9.77153&q=53.5715,9.76569&z=14.33&r=110&t=18&m=HHPPN6372056850037-167,RW023000377&o=0.85&d=0&s=1

Hamburg - #Blankenese #oldmaps /via @stabihh

#MapOfTheDay Italien 1742 :: https://mprove.de/chrono3d?m=HK0351&o=0.8&s=1

#oldmaps #maps #geoixd

Calling #mapstodon !!! Also #librarians and #archivists !!!

I used a lot of old maps in my work for York Library and Archive, which I'm proud to say are on permanent display.

But I'm running out of maps!

If anyone has any old sheet maps (see pic for examples) - not the folded retail sort - that need a new home, please could i have them?!?!

I would love to make you something from them in return, if you'd like.
Thank you!!!

#maps #cartography #librariansofmastodon #oldMaps #archivistodon

#ChronooutageEnd Die Links zum #IIIF Server der #Albertina sind gefixt.
https://mprove.de/chrono?ll=51.29674,11.80746&z=5.44&s=1&c=law,k

#openGLAM #openGLAMlabor #crossGLAM #oldmaps #vintagemaps

@pommerschergreif Ein toller Fund. Alle Karten sind nun ins Chronoscope World eingemessen >> https://mprove.de/chrono?ll=54.45491,13.40503&q=54.45218,13.65564&z=9.46&t=18&m=MVPPN1946075345-36&o=0.8&d=0&c=A

#newoldmaps #oldmaps #vintagemaps #Rügen

Access to 300 vintage maps fixed.

Georeferenced #IIIFmaps by U Harvard >> https://mprove.de/chrono3d?q=42.37559,-71.11897&z=15.57&t=18&s=1&i=iiifc

#oldmaps @IIIF

Man, this place has *everything*

#historicalMaps #OldMaps #SanbornMaps #ScotiaNY #LocalHistory

🗺️ Map of the Ottoman Empire in Europe, 1730s #oldmaps

Okay, but can Waze tell you where the henhouses are? Don't think so.

#OldMaps #Maps #SanbornMaps

@Bienengeschichte à propos #Görlitz >> https://mprove.de/chrono?q=51.15516,14.98764&z=15.74&m=PL48263983&o=0.75&i=1

#oldmaps #glasperlenspiel #chronomedia

🗺️ An Ottoman Map of Sudan, Tripoli, Tunisia and Morocco, 1892 #oldmaps

🗺️ An Ottoman Map of #Palestine, Late 19th Century #map #oldmaps