Historical Aerial Photograph Maps

Ortofotomapy Krakowa is a Google Map featuring historical aerial imagery of Krakow, Poland. The map overlays historical aerial views of the city, taken inwards 1945, 1965 together with 1996, on a modern Google Map.

Ortofotomapy Krakowa includes a comments characteristic which allows residents of the metropolis to comment on the changes inwards Cracow over the years.

Other Historical Aerial Photo Maps

Neighborhood Change inwards Connecticut - aerial photos from 1934
Catbus - 1947 aerial imagery of Montreal
Old Maps of Moscow - a  large collection of historical maps & aerial imagery from the 1940's

FlyfotoArkivet LW1944 - 1940's imagery of Kingdom of Denmark captured past times the Luftwaffe.

Other Collections of Aerial Imagery

The WWII Aerial Photos together with Maps website has a large collection of Aerial photos taken during the Second World War. 

The 17Th Century Conduct To Pomerania

The Seventeenth Century mathematician too philosopher Eilhard Lubinus was commissioned inwards 1610 to practice a map of Pomerania. Lubinus.pl has made the inspired conclusion to role Lubinus' beautiful Pomerania map every bit the terra firma for a guided tour of the region.

Mapy Lubinusa uses the Google Maps API to plough Lubinus' Seventeenth Century map into an interactive require for visitors to modern twenty-four hr menses Pomerania. The edge of Lubinus' map is decorated alongside portraits of the 49 towns of Pomerania. Mapy Lubinusa has created nine guided tours, which y'all tin follow on the interactive version of the map, taking inwards all of the 49 towns featured inwards the map border.

You tin hence role Mapy Lubinusa non entirely to explore the Lubinus Pomeranian map inwards especial simply every bit a modern tourist require to the region. The map itself is augmented alongside an animated cloud layer too a break of animated map features.

Mapping Auschwitz

The Auschwitz concentration military camp was a network of High German Nazi extermination as well as concentration camps built inwards annexed Poland during World War II. The military camp consisted of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II – Birkenau as well as Auschwitz III. This Auschwitz-Birkenau - High German Death Camp map overlays 1944 & 1945 aerial photographs of the 3 camps on a Google Map.

The 3 historical aerial photos are each labelled alongside details almost the camps showing the locations of gas chambers, crematoriums, bomb craters, execution walls etc. The map includes a transparency command which allows yous to compare the historic photos of the camps alongside the acquaint hateful solar daytime Google Maps satellite imagery.

Also see: Mapping the Holocaust - a round-up of maps documenting the Holocaust as well as commemorating the millions who lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis.