Old maps and GoogleMaps

Someone David Ramsey created from his collection (more than 150,000 old maps) an excellent service with which you can find out how the area you needed looked a couple of hundred years ago.

Maps are dated from 1680 to 1930. There you can check out Alaska before selling America.
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And a lot of interesting things.

The map looks like this



In order to see the old map of the area you need, click on the circle.

For example, here's a map of Moscow.





All this beauty is zoomed like on ordinary maps.

Watch as GoogleMaps
Watch as GoogleEarth

Author's site

I hope we will not put another server. Done (

UPD

I will lift from comments links to similar sites

www.bigmapblog.com from Krassus
www.retromap.ru from Simba
www.oldmapsonline.org and russian-maps.livejournal.com from dom1n1k
etomesto.ru from GeckoPelt