Haarlem & Harlem on Google Maps

Haerlem.nu is a website dedicated to recording and presenting the history of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Part of the project includes a Google Map that features historical landmarks, photographs and historical notes about locations in the city.If you sign-up as a 'mosquito' (as the natives of Haarlem call themselves) you can add your own memories, history or photos to the map. With Haerlem.nu

How Countries Change on Google Maps

Here are two great Google Maps applications for anyone interested in history or genealogy. The applications allow you to view the changing boundaries of different countries and U.S. counties over time. The Historical World Boundary Map application displays world political boundaries from 1946-2008. You can click any country on the map to view how its boundaries have changed over time. The

Google Map of the Week

HistorypinHistorypin isn't a new map exactly but this week's release of some exciting new features is enough to make it my favourite map of the week.There is a new Historypin mobile app. The mobile app and the desktop version have a new augmented reality view in Street View that dispays thumbnails of nearby photographs. If you click on one of the photographs you are immediately transported to

Historypin Goes Global

Last year Hitorypin launched in beta in London. Its use of historical photographs with Google Maps and Street View proved instantly very popular. Today it has officially launched with a new mobile app and global coverage.As well as the new mobile app the desktop version has a number of exciting new features. When you a view a historical photograph superimposed on Street View in Google Maps now

Make Your Own History Map

Weaving History from the Open Knowledge Foundation lets you create your own history maps with a little help from the Simile Timeline and Google Maps.The Simile Timeline widget has long been a favourite tool for Google Maps developers who want to create maps about historic events. The programming skills required for both the timeline widget and the Google Maps API however does create a barrier for

Mapping History with Google Maps

Maps+MotionMaps+Motion is a great way to visualise the growth of Dutch cities and Manhattan in New York with Google Maps. Essentially the application allows you to view side-by-side the modern maps of cities with maps of how the cities looked at different times in history. The screenshot above, for example, shows a map of 1450 Amsterdam with a modern map of the city.The application currently

D-Day on Google Maps and Street View

Yesterday was the anniversary of D-Day. On the 6th June, 1944 the Normandy landings commenced when Allied troops began Operation Neptune.Google Sightseeing has posted a special round-up, called D-Day: The Monuments of the Normandy Landings. The post looks at the Google Maps satellite imagery and Street Views of the five main beaches where the landings took place, codenamed Juno, Gold, Sword, Utah

Route Planning - The Ancient Roman Way

Omnes Viae: Itinerarium RomanumWith this ancient Roman route-planner you can pretend that you are Hannibal planning a journey from New Carthage to the very heart of the Roman Empire. The Itinerarium Romanum is a route planner based on an ancient Roman map known as the 'Tabula Peutingeriana'. The route planner allows you to plan a route that contains all the main roads and cities of the Roman

Historical Map Collections

One of the most popular uses of the Google Maps API since it was launched six years ago has been as a tool to view historical maps. The David Rumsey Collection, with its huge collection of historical maps, obviously stands out.However it does not stand alone.In the last six years Google Maps Mania has reviewed historical map mashups from the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, France, Japan and many

Ye Olde Photo Google Map

Twixt Aire and Calder Historical PhotosThe Twixt Aire and Calder Project in the UK have updated their Google Map that showcases historical photographs of the area. The map has been updated to use v3 of the Google Maps API and makes good use of the Styled Map feature to provide an appropriate sepia tone to the map.Images from the Twixt Aire and Calder archive have been plotted on the map close

1850's England On Google Maps

England Jurisdictions 1851Genealogy website Family Search has created a nice Google Map that let's you search for places by county, parish, hundred and province in England as they were constituted in 1851. The map should prove to be a great help for anyone who wants to search the geographical origins of ancestors from England in the 19th Century. You can select to view the different

London's Memorials on Google Maps

London RemembersLondon Remembers has mapped over 2,000 memorials in London. Their website includes a Google Map showing the locations of plaques, monuments, statues and fountains throughout the capital.Each mapped memorial includes a couple of photographs of the memorial. If you click the link in the marker you can view more details about who (or what) is being memorialised. If you don't want to