Interactive Historical Atlas of the World

[alcibaides]

I have just launched a new site called ChronoAtlas.com, the first fully interactive historical atlas of the world.

The site allows you to browse the entire globe at any point in history and see boundaries changing over time and cities and other features appearing on the map at the time they were founded. The site is also 100% interactive, you can contribute your own data: meaning your own cities, battles, and photos of historic places and events, and you can also draw boundaries of any historical kingdom you want, or edit those drawn by others if they are inaccurate.

You need to have either Google Earth or the Google Earth plug-in to view the site, if you don’t have it then it will prompt you to install the plug-in on your first visit. Google Earth is completely free and so is ChronoAtlas.com.

The site has just been launched so feel free to suggest improvements or if you get any error messages then please let me know and I will try to fix them. There are also some video tutorials on how to do stuff if you get stuck.

I want to make the site as fun and user-friendly as possible so let me know how it can be improved and what additional features you would like to see.

 

[McMonkey]

This is a very impressive site and project. I will be keeping a close eye on its progress and hopefully adding some content too

 

[Harry Tuttle]

I will check this out. Very interesting.

 

[Fairline]

Sounds good, thanks for the info

 

[Arthedain]

Okay, I'm a guy that just LOVE maps and history. Imagine how historical maps are to me . I will have to check this out asap! Hopefully it will help us with scenario creation.

 

[civ2units]

This is a great idea of an interactive historical map available online.

I´m right that everyone can contribute stuff to your project? If so I´m sure it will the largest compilation of historical maps.

Especially for us scenario designers a very good source.

 

[alcibaides]

This is a great idea of an interactive historical map available online.

I´m right that everyone can contribute stuff to your project? If so I´m sure it will the largest compilation of historical maps.

Yes, that is correct, you just sign up with an account and click on "contribute" to start contributing.

 

[civ2units]

Great to hear. Maybe I will contribute something if I have some more time.