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Non-Road Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Hot Rod Hootenanny on July 18, 2011, 07:18:02 PM

Title: My new favorite website
Post by: Hot Rod Hootenanny on July 18, 2011, 07:18:02 PM
http://www.historicmapworks.com/
Discovered the site by happenstance on Sunday when I was googling for something else.
Alas, they have alot of maps...of some regions (Ohio & Penn - good coverage. Miss & Louisiana - no coverage) with county maps from the end of the Civil War up through 1980.
Interesting to look through if you're interested in looking at city and highway development.
Title: Re: My new favorite website
Post by: Duke87 on July 18, 2011, 08:23:50 PM
I had subscribed to that site a couple years back. I then discovered that after initially poking through quite fascinatedly, I wasn't using it, and I let it expire.
Title: Re: My new favorite website
Post by: NE2 on July 18, 2011, 08:49:31 PM
It's no longer subscription-only, but who knows if they'll change it back. http://wardmaps.com/ is a similar site.
Title: Re: My new favorite website
Post by: CL on July 18, 2011, 08:54:37 PM
I think this may have been linked here before, but Historic Aerials (http://www.historicaerials.com/) has some excellent aerial images of more populated areas, mainly dating from the '50s to today.
Title: Re: My new favorite website
Post by: ftballfan on July 18, 2011, 10:58:11 PM
Historic Aerials is very interesting. In the Detroit area, you can get a glimpse of the old interchange at I-94 and Telegraph, the old one at I-94 and Southfield, Spaghetti Junction before it was Spaghetti Junction, and the Jeffries under construction.
Title: Re: My new favorite website
Post by: 1995hoo on July 19, 2011, 04:39:36 PM
Love being able to see Ebbets Field on Historic Aerials.
Title: Re: My new favorite website
Post by: Hot Rod Hootenanny on July 23, 2011, 07:07:35 PM
Today's addition: For covered bridge lovers
http://www.handsomeproductions.com/tfkeller/index.html
Color photos of Covered bridges from the 1940s, 1950s, and maybe 60s.
Geographic focus is Eastern Great lakes and Northeast.