Countries of the past, rulers and kings, battles, famous people of the era - all after you pick a place on a map, set a year on a time slider. Explore over 500k maps down to streets, 3D & Augmented Reality. The "Google Maps of History" in your pocket.
This project has been for a long time my personal dream... 🤩 the most comprehensive Interactive Map of World History on ProductHunt!
This interactive tool transforms how people access and engage with history, allowing them to check facts while watching the news, talking to friends, preparing school homework, or visiting a historical site with family.
With TimeMap.org, you can pick a place on a map, set a year on a time slider, and travel back in time. Learn about the names of countries of the past, rulers and kings, battles, millions of people - famous artists and musicians, mathematicians, and more and explore relation as never before. Just adjust the selected period on timeline and pan map!
The prototype was introduced to the world at the Stanford University together with David Rumsey in his map center - on a dedicated event https://events.stanford.edu/even... back in May. Video recording available!
Now we are finally ready to launch it to a larger audience...
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Visit https://timemap.org/ to access this free, mobile-optimized resource, complementing the OldMapsOnline.org portal allowing discovery of over half of a million high resolution maps from two dozen libraries and famous archives all over the world.
I am super excited to hear what you think of this web service, and what you would like to improve to make it perfect!
Thank you for your comments and feedback.
Funnily enough, I've been interested in the geography of the UK throughout the centuries recently so pleasant to see something like this pop up which reveals all. It's great seeing how the boundaries have changed over the years. Fantastic creation!
I like how much looking into the borders of countries expanding and regressing each year makes far easier to connect the historical events we hear all the time around. This is the missing tool for students to make an easier entry to learn history. I liked it so much I've signed up to PH today after they sent me an email. Congrats and don't close it please.
This is a really cool tool! I’ve been having a lot of fun exploring different time periods and seeing how history unfolded on the map， and I love how it gives a whole new perspective on things.
It's a brilliant idea! The entire history of humanity is condensed onto this map，making it incredibly intuitive and vivid. Truly hope more people can join the community and add more maps to it!
Came back on PH after a year and saw the most amazing product ever! Congrats on the launch!
TimeMap illustrates how alive history is today. History establishes the world we live in: our norms, idioms, institutions, protocols and more. I love the Ruler tab which helps personify all of the regions. Use the Ruler tab during major events like WW2 to see all of the characters involved.
To be truly empathetic you need to be humble enough to forego your own bias and judgement of history. TimeMap helps you alleviate your rigid mindset about borders, nations, cultures, ethnicities, languages -- all baggage we inherit by studying and consuming media.
Great work team this proves there is still magic available on the Web.
TimeMap.org is a great tool that brings history to life. Its interactive maps and timelines make exploring the past easy and exciting. I can highly recommend it as a fantastic resource for visualizing how our world has evolved over time 👏
@klokan --- Amazing that you were able to synchronize the map coordinates so they overlay. A little hard to use on an iPhone, can’t wait to start exploring on my PC.
Now that I have had a chance to use this on my PC, the only improvement I would like to see is a way to sort maps from oldest to newest, or have maps grouped into categories, so you can see all of the different types. Do you plan to have aerial photos to the collection (maybe I haven't found them yet).
Excellent!
Congrats on the launch!
This is such a unique way to explore history. Awesome work!
Oh...this is dangerous...I could literally spend hours pouring over all this history 🤤
Nice! Great for historians and educators and basically any one with curiosity. Would be ideal to have a generative AI Q&A layer on top of the geography and history.
And maybe a Google Earth version of TimeMap soon?
TimeMap is an incredible resource for researching and teaching both history and geography. I'm really happy to support this, it is something that everyone can benefit from. Seeing historical figures in context with contemporary wars and boundary changes is absolutely fascinating!
