Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical Atlas

Wikipedia:WikiProject historical atlas has the aim of creating a historical atlas.

WikiProject Historical Atlas
Welcome to WikiProject Historical Atlas Goals Create a historical atlas. Note The "Goals" of this WP may expand in the future as this wikiproject is still in its beginning stages.

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Participants:

• Daanschr (talk · contribs)
• R9tgokunks (talk · contribs)
• IYY (talk · contribs)
• irtapil (talk · contribs)

Inactive Participants

• Coldplay Expert (talk · contribs)
• Erp (talk · contribs)
• Shii (tock)
• Tblazko
• Xaxafrad
• Briangotts (talk · contribs)
• Martin
• Talessman (talk · contribs)
• Skylarque (talk · contribs) see project pages
• Historiographer (talk · contribs)
• Josegaert (talk · contribs)
• Ellsie.c (talk)Ellsie.c

Departments

Boundaries Department

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical Atlas/BD has the purpose of perfecting the boundaries of countries and other entities in the historical atlas.

Colors Department

(Coming soon)

Noteworthy examples of electronic historical atlases

• Commons:Category:History maps by User:Briangotts

• Category:Historical maps by William R. Shepherd

• The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the Library of the University of Texas has a huge collection of public domain historical maps. Especially useful is the entire 1923 Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd general history atlas and the 1912 Cambridge Modern History Atlas which is available there. Many of these maps have been loaded onto Wikimedia Commons already. There are a large number of free maps at the commons, in Category:Old maps and Category: maps and their various sub-categories.

• Centennia has been available since the days of DOS as far back as 1992 and is currently available in Windows Vista/XP and Macintosh OSX editions. It has been updated recently. It is a commercial product with copyrighted content, covering Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from AD 1000 to 2006. Maps divide a year into ten parts and cover not only borders of countries, but also the extents of military campaigns. Especially impressive is the Mongol conquest of the Middle East and Eastern Europe. A free version is available which covers the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789-1820.

• Exemplars: the TimeMap samples (a series of avi and/or swf files). They say their program is open source (yes, it is, go to SourceForge) but I think they're really using a proprietary open-source license (now GNU GPL) not that I was able to get their program running on my machine (hmm, would be nice to know, then we could fix it ...). [I really like the maps I see here - Martin]

• Historical atlas of Europe at the beginning of each century from 1 CE to 2000 CE. Commercial; online samples and low-res versions available free.

• worldhistorymaps.com 2500 years of world history in yearly maps, though very much a commercial venture; only listed here for comparative purposes.

• Geacron 5000 years of world history. Commercial.