Old Maps Online is a great website to find and explore historical maps. You can go back in time using the timeline to search the old maps for a particular country or place. For a query, it provides dozens of maps which you can view by opening the source location of that particular map. It also provides the description of a map (for a place or city), information about the author (or creator) and publisher of maps.
Apart from this, it comes with zoom in and out feature which will help to view an area clearly. You can also use Exact area tool to draw a rectangle over the map to define the search area.
Those who have interest in exploring old maps to learn about a place or country and the changes that happened in past, then you will love this website.
The screenshot above shows the search results for old maps using this website.
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How to Find and Explore Historical Maps using This Free Website?
Here is the homepage link of Old Maps Online website. You don’t need an account to use this website. It provides two options to start the search: Find a place and Browse the old maps.Use any of those two options to find the old maps of a particular place or country.
You can also first set the filters and then start a search. You can use Timeline to specify the date range and use Attributes option to enter text, title, and author to find the historical maps.
Apart from this, you can also use places option (available on the left sidebar) to explore parent and recent places of the searched place and get old maps.
Based on your query and filters, it will locate the place on the available map. And at the right section, it will show all the old maps available for that place. You can preview any map, read description (if available) and jump to the source location of that map.
Conclusion:
Old Maps Online is a fantastic website and a good repository of historical maps. You can use it to find what a particular area or country was like in the past or to learn about a place by exploring multiple old maps.
