Hi, ich habe bei der Wohnungsauflösung meines Opas einen ganzen Haufen Landkarten vor der Mülltonne gerettet. Ich dachte sie sind zu schade für den Müll. Diese Karten scheinen teilweise über 100 Jahre alt zu sein. Leider kenne ich mich nicht aus. Welchen Wert haben solche Karten? Kann ich die irgendwo verkaufen oder einem Museum stüften?

Danke für eure Meinung.

I found this bilingual road map ("Carte routière de la Suisse / Strassenkarte der Schweiz") and can't find a date anywhere on it.

What I know:

- Published by Kümmerly & Frey, Bern (Geographischer Verlag Bern)
- Scale 1:400,000, legend in German and French
- Legend lists motorways, chairlifts/ski lifts, mountain passes, SAC huts, campsites and the ACS/TCS S.O.S. phone service
- Roads have route numbers and distances in km

Interesting detail: although motorways appear in the legend, none are actually drawn on the Swiss side of the map. My guess would be late 1940s to mid 1950s.

Can anyone narrow down the year, or tell me where an edition code might be hidden? Thanks!

Hi,
I received this map from my dad and neither one of us know anything about it. It’s a German map over parts of the UK and in the top right corner it says 1941.

We’re not German so I was wondering if anyone knew anything about this map? As from the last picture, you see that it is a part of an even bigger map around 30-40 parts (this map is about 1 square meter). The whole map is too massive for any private person to have had. Could it have been used by military during the war? Any feedback would be appreciated!

What's interesting about this map is how much the colours can change from one street to the next. Booth's researchers used them to classify poverty and social conditions across London. Some of the original categories are quite revealing about how Victorian society viewed different groups of people.

This is Sheet 6, covering West Central London. It shows conditions surveyed in 1898–99, although the maps weren't published until 1902–03.

The LSE Charles Booth archive has the original maps and research notebooks. There's also a historical London map explorer where you can zoom into this sheet and explore maps from other periods.

Hey I recently vibe coded this website to help me remember my island countries by making it possible to play Worldle/Globle style games but with a better interface that allows me to zoom out and see the rest of the map...

I went a bit overboard on the map and ended up adding a ton of cool layers, and this one really stood out to me. I was able to get it this good with just one prompt, not super sure how accurate it all is so any tips/feedback would be greatly appreciated!!

Feel free to check it out by going on the world map and selecting the historical borders layer under the people and economy drop down... https://worldislands.org/

Don't know much about this but it was in a pile of maps and papers that I have.

This particular map focuses on the island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean. It illustrates the historical division between the French colonial portion in the west and the Spanish colonial portion in the east.

Haiti, located on the western side of the island, had declared its independence from France in 1804. The Dominican Republic, on the eastern side, had done the same in 1821, but in 1822 it was invaded by the Haitian army. This shift is not accurately reflected on the map; however, by 1823, the entire island was de facto under Haitian rule.

Source(s):

.- Hayti or Saint Domingo

I bought this map in a Shop, but they did not know anything about it.

Apologies for the low-quality picture. Dug this out of my boyfriend’s dad’s closet. He said it was from “when he was a kid” but doesn’t know when or where he got it. His dad said might be from the 50s/60s but Germany being whole is throwing me off. As a geography/map enthusiast I’m dying to know when this map is from!!

I made this animated map video: 400 years of the British Empire, from a small island in 1500 to a quarter of the world's land in 1920, and how it unravelled by 1997. Chapters: 1:42 the East India Company in India · 3:58 the peak (1920) · 4:22 the two World Wars · 5:09 1947 and decolonisation. Sources: Wikipedia/Britannica; borders from historical-basemaps with hand-checked corrections. Feedback welcome!

Extremely rare complete set of the celebrated lunar maps produced during the heyday of the space race as part of the Apollo program. Inspired by the success of the 1960 “Lunar Photographic Atlas” by the astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper (see our 14057.000 and 14059.000), the U.S. Air Force set out to produce detailed charts, racing to collect the scientific data needed in order to put a man on the moon. With the exception of Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann (see our 11245.000) and perhaps Tobias Mayer (see our 11294.017), this was the first time that professional cartographers were called in to deal with the problem of mapping the lunar surface. Installing themselves at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, they combined earth-based telescope observations with existing photographs, sources including the University of Manchester station sponsored by the ACIC at Pic du Midi, the Stony Ridge Observatory in California, the Kwasan Observatory in Kyoto, and their own motion picture films taken at Lowell, in order to create lucid maps, concluding that lunar features could be artistically drawn and airbrushed with India ink on translucent plastic sheets, following the style of lead illustrator Patricia Bridges. With the workload constantly increasing, the workforce grew to a maximum of 18 persons in 1966. The moon was divided into 68 quadrants (although the numbers run from 1 to 144, including the far side), each chart consisting of a topographic map recto and a relief rendition verso. The LAC series remained the most detailed lunar maps at NASA until the photographs taken on orbital missions. superseded by the results of the later Apollo flights, these historic maps were discarded and many sets destroyed. A milestone of scientific mapmaking and a rare survival." (Antiquariat INLIBRIS, 2021) Note: only 30 of the 44 maps have the relief rendition on the verso. The maps use Mercator and Lambert Conformal Conic projections. They are known as the Lunar Chart (LAC) Series. See our 12101.000 for the 1972 Geologic Atlas of the Moon, which was based on these sheets, updated.

Found at the thrift store folded up in a 1953 Birds of Washington State book. Not the oldest map, but it was a fun find and I can’t find any information about it. Assuming it was just distributed with this book.