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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Mysterioso on July 31, 2009, 02:14:18 PM
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I thought this site might be helpful to some folks as they plan games.
(If it does not belong in Colonial Adevntures, please feel free to move it.)
Google Maps Rumsey Historical Maps
http://www.davidrumsey.com/gmaps.html
David Rumsey is one of the world's great map collectors, and he has been
very generous by sharing his treasures via the David Rumsey Map Collection
website. Recently, Rumsey has selected 120 historical maps from his
collection to link up with data from Google Maps and Google Earth. These
maps are tremendous repositories of historical and cultural information by
themselves, and when they are joined up with the other maps, they present a
multifaceted way of visualizing the past, present, and future of these
locales. As the website notes, this is "a marriage of historic cartographic
masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools." First-time
visitors can read the explanation of how this is done, and then scroll down
to look through the list of maps, which includes Chicago in 1857, Moscow in
1836, Kyoto in 1709, and a celestial globe from 1792. Also, visitors can
toggle the satellite view via the Google Maps overlay map in order to
compare and contrast the changes that have occurred over the past decades
and centuries.
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Good find!!!!
that is very cool! :)
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Thank you this is a great treasure.