What if you could look around Asia Minor in the year 200 BCE? You might need a very good time machine, or you could just use the ChronoAtlas. The map viewer here interfaces with Google Earth to create a highly nuanced and completely fascinating interactive experience that allows users to explore various themes and data sets with the option of visitor-contribution of images of historic places and...

What is the best way to experience the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts? You could read a history of Harvard University, take a walking tour, or perhaps browse a topical website. But why not look at the Cambridge CityViewer for edification? This unique tool "allows the public to view, query, mark up, and print custom maps using only a web browser." Notedly, the viewer works best with Internet...

Historypin is "a global community collaborating around history," and they have successfully "pinned down" over 281 thousand items to various locations around the world. Over 1,400 institutions and 50 thousand visitors have participated thus far. It's a remarkable experiment in community mapping of everything from Hurricane Sandy to sharing memories of the Queen's visits to foreign lands. Visitors...

Mapping Occupation, a digital history project created by Gregory P. Downs and Scott Nesbit, provides groundbreaking insight into the role of the U.S. Army in the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Part spatial narrative, part exploratory map, there are many ways to experience this resource. Readers may like to explore the site in order, starting with and absorbing the home page before...

When Alfred Korzybski, the Russian scholar and semanticist coined his dictum, "the map is not the territory," he intended to point to the limits of human knowledge. And yet, as this site based on the work of three cross-cultural theorists points out, maps are, in themselves, a kind of territory. From the landing page, readers will want to first select "Begin reading..." From there, explore the...

The Nebraska Department of Natural Resources is dedicated "to the sustainable use and proper management of Nebraska's natural resources." From its website, the generally curious can learn about its integrated water management plans, animal conservation programs, and ongoing ecological studies. The homepage has an extensive series of news releases, public notices, orders, and updates, along with...

Map lovers will find hours and hours worth of cartographic joys on this site that draws sources from the U.S. Geological Society, the National Library of Scotland, the Land Survey Office of the Czech Republic, and many other participating institutions. Beginning as a project between Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland and The Great Britain Historical GIS Project, OldMapsOnline "aims to...

Have you ever walked by a busy street corner and wondered what was there 20, 30, 50, or 60 years ago? If you have, the WhatWasThere site may be able to provide you with answers. The premise of the site is simple: the team at WhatWasThere has provided a platform where anyone can upload a photograph with two tags (location and year) so that others can learn more about the built environment. Visitors...