Atlases – the largest
part of the site. The works presented are more than 75 years old, and out of
copyright. Mostly, complete sets of plates from atlases are presented.All are now in Zoomify format, which should work automatically with most browsers. You will need Flash and Activex to be installed and enabled for your browser – they usually are, by default.
You can find an atlas either from the main list of atlases or from an interactive index which allows you to select the atlases you want listed.
As an introduction to the site, you might look at some interesting items among the plates described above.
The detail to the left shows a Belgian colony in Central America, bordering Guatemala, San Salvador and Honduras.
You can buy maps from the
site. The images you can buy are large JPGs, showing the same plates as those
described above, but at a higher resolution and with less compression.
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Search for a place,
battle, etc. in the maps here.
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Recommended in-print atlases
with one or two sample plates from each.
A few enhanced maps,
using features of html and javascript to overlay maps for various effects.The example to the right shows a region of Thuringia that requires six colours to colour it.
The most useful is an outline map of the world with automatic colouring of countries, so that you can make your own coloured-in map. The detail on the left is from such a map.