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📣 Bellend

Historical side-by-side maps available in your region?


I grew up in a small town in Scotland and recently found the following map system, in this case, it compares 1854 (on the left) with modern (on the right) but depending on where you are it goes back to 1700s.

This is where Andrew Carnegie was born.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/?fbclid=IwAR2Qxx6YNPCS98ALSVOQdjCV19DVc5CBHuMnydKLEexMNZ_mFMlPxi-ASM4#zoom=19&lat=56.06805&lon=-3.46123&layers=69&right=ESRIWorld

Do you know of other similar resources which compare snapshots of local history in this way?

It is very interesting to browse your local history in this way and I would like to see other places as it fascinates me.

Thanks!

  👤 zeristor Accepted Answer ✓
nls.uk top level domain for the National Library of Scotland.

An interesting project, there seems to be a number of web sites for local history, half of my ancestors are from a small part of Denmark and they’ve put together a website to tie together pictures and history.

I only just found that the small hill our summer house was on is mentioned in Beowulf:

https://bibod.dk/odswiki/index.php?title=Isøre

One may need to run it through Google translate, like I did.

👤 cc101
The USGS has a long history of publishing topographic maps of the US. These maps are online here:

https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/topoexplorer/index.html

The fascinating part of this is that the website can overlay maps of different ages, and the user can adjust the transparency of the overlay.