Roman Letters(romanletters.org)

79 points by diodorus 5 months ago | 10 comments

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history(waratlas.org)

177 points by NaOH 3 months ago | 68 comments

Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505(loeffelholz-codex.org)

148 points by edwardog 1 day ago | 80 comments

A project site presenting the 1505 Löffelholz Codex, a Nuremberg knight's tool book, page by page with facsimiles, transcriptions, modern readings and interpretations.

All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)(jivx.com)

238 points by momentmaker 4 months ago | 79 comments

German Peasants' War(en.wikipedia.org)

40 points by constantius 3 months ago | 40 comments

Turgot Map of Paris(en.wikipedia.org)

50 points by Michelangelo11 1 year ago | 12 comments

Visualizing World War II(nathangoldwag.wordpress.com)

410 points by gaws 1 year ago | 85 comments

A blog post on Goldwag's Journal on Civilization presenting visualizations and maps of World War II history.

Map of GitHub(github.com)

651 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 100 comments

GitHub repository for anvaka's Map of GitHub, an interactive map visualizing GitHub repositories as countries based on shared stargazers.

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire(michelecoscia.com)

136 points by mikk14 12 days ago | 30 comments

Blog post by Michele Coscia applying economic complexity analysis to the economy of the Western Roman Empire.

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC(geacron.com)

329 points by not_knuth 11 months ago | 135 comments

GeaCron's interactive world history atlas showing political maps and borders by year from 3000 BC to the present.

This map is not upside down(maps.com)

341 points by aagha 1 year ago | 489 comments

Maps.com article by Joshua Stevens about a south-up world map designed by cartographer Robert Simmon that challenges the north-up convention.

Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset(overturemaps.org)

384 points by chippy 3 years ago | 87 comments

Overture Maps Foundation blog post announcing its first worldwide open map dataset, covering layers such as places, buildings, transportation, and administrative boundaries.