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...
Don't forget to 🔃 repost and 👍 like to spread the word!
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.
@klokan Congratulations on the launch! It looks impressive, and I believe it’s a must-see for every history enthusiast or map aficionado. How is the data sourced? Is it entirely community-driven, or do you have an editorial process in place?
@agilek Thank you a lot, Mike! The historical data is a result of hard work of our team of historians from the Academy of Sciences and Universitas Carolina in Prague on top of thousands of volunteers from Wikidata and Wikipedia projects - with applied AI/LLM pre-processing.
The "Feedback" button on the side of TimeMap allows anyone to contribute with insights and ideas for improvement - and the team continues to fine-tune the content and do the quality control reviews.
More collaborative online tools for direct editing are on our roadmap.
The millions of high-resolution scanned maps are the result of the community effort as well - and anyone can help in 5 minutes of his time - to find the correct location of a scanned map in a form of an online game at:
👉 https://community.oldmapsonline....
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!
@ben_griese thanks. If it runs this way with TimeMap it means a success for the UX of the app...
BTW more content is inddeed planned (events, places, wars, ...) so stay tuned. Thanks a lot for the promo on newsletter ...
As a fan of history this project is super cool to me! I believe history on maps with this timeline should be taught in every school on history lessons.
This is an incredible application. I loved going back in the timeline to see how the world and my country changed over time. This would be heaven for history students and people who are curious about the world.
TimeMap
TimeMap
TimeMap
Product Hunt
TimeMap