Website for browsing and searching hundreds of thousands of historical maps from libraries and archives worldwide, with an online tool for georeferencing maps and uploading your own scans.
How Old Maps Online uses MapLibre
Its interactive viewer uses MapLibre GL JS to overlay georeferenced historical maps on a modern basemap with a timeline slider.
What Old Maps Online offers you
- Georeference historical maps in its online tool
- Upload your own scanned maps, including private ones
- Use georeferenced maps as OGC WMTS services and IIIF images
- Georeferencer for institutions, with GIS exports and a geosearch app
From oldmapsonline.org
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