This thread about Historical Maps is one of the curated threads in the Resources category. Here you can find links to various sources for historical maps, mostly online, but also book recommendations and the like. This thread is about actual historical maps from Earth not fantasy maps inspired by the style of historic maps. It also covers modern maps of historical locations.

The link goes to the forum post that brought the content to the forum. A direct link to the content is provided in parenthesis for easy access, but please go to the forum post to discuss the content.

Only this top post is curated, users can use the comments below to add links themselves, but I suggest that you do this by starting your own discussion in the Cartographic Resources category, and link to that discussion from your comment here. That way each source have it's own thread where it can be discussed. I'll add the best links to the curated content, but the comments here will be a way to discover even more resources than I showcase.

As time goes by, some links may get outdated as sites die and gets replaced by other sites. If you find any such links here, please use the Flag link to notify me about this but please don't use Flag to ask me to add links.

Historical Maps

• Ancient Earth - 750 million years of earth history (dinosaurpictures.org)
• City Map Collection (reddit.com)
• David Rumsey Map Collection (davidrumsey.com)
• Europe in the 18th & 19th century (mapire.eu)
• George III's collection of military maps (militarymaps.rct.uk)
• Historical European Maps (euratlas.net discusmedia.com)
• Hobbs Architectural Designs (archive.org)
• The Huntington - Maps and Atlases (huntington.org)
• National Library of Scotland (nls.uk)
• New York Public Library 1544-2001 (nypl.org)
• Norwegian Historical maps (kartverket.no)
• Old Maps Online (oldmapsonline.org)
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (lib.utexas.edu)
• Sanborn Maps (loc.gov)
• Reconstruction of German Castles (burgrekonstruktion.de)
• Survey of London (british-history.ac.uk)
• McMaster University Digital Map Collections (mcmaster.ca)
• Theban Mapping Project - Valley of the Kings (thebanmappingproject.com)
• Fra Mauro's 15th Century world map (mostre.museogalileo.it)

This map is now in the atlas. Congratulations to Quenten on his 100th atlas map.

The community atlas is a project where the ProFantasy community comes together and map out the complete world of Nibirum for everyone to use. Here, we provide all kinds of maps, from world maps to continent maps to area maps to city maps to dungeon maps and much more, and they are all hyperlinked together in an interactive atlas.
Anyone who wants to can download this atlas. The files in it are in the Campaign Cartographer 3+ map format, meaning you can easily edit the maps for your own use, to make the maps better fit your world, or you can just use it as it is, either using individual maps, or just adopt the world mapped in the atlas as your own campaign world. You can also use the maps for inspiration, and examine them to figure out how they were made. And all the maps are hyperlinked together, meaning you can navigate through the world, they are not just a bunch of random maps.

The maps in the atlas are mapped by a wide variety of community members of different skill and style, and the maps in the atlas reflects this as well. And we are always looking for new maps to the atlas, so please consider contributing. Contributing to the atlas is a great way of testing out that latest annual style you wanted to try, to experiment with your styles, or just get some additional mapping experience. And everyone is welcome to contribute, you don't have to be a CC3+ expert.

Download

How to contribute

Anyone is welcome to contribute to the atlas. Basically, you just find an area that hasn't been mapped yet, then make a request here in this thread to be assigned that area. Once confirmed, you can start mapping it. More details and requirements here.
Also remember, this project is intended to be a long-term project. If you don't have the time to contribute this month, consider doing it next month. And there is no time-limit for finishing your maps, take the time you need. (Note that all reservations do get removed after 12 months. If you need more time than that, that is still fine, but you need to tell me about it to extend your reservation)
While working on a map for the atlas, we'd love to see you post your progress in the forum to get comments, feedback and suggestions for your map (Please start a new thread though, this thread isn't for individual map discussion.)

A note about styles

This atlas contains maps in a wide variety of styles. Some maps works fine in the base CC3+ product, other require specific add-ons. This means that there will always be some maps that you cannot open unless you own all the add-ons for CC3+. For these maps, you won't be able to edit and manipulate them in CC3+, but you can still use the exported images found in the online map browser. The map notes for the map will tell you which styles was used and which products are required, so you can get this product if you want to view the map or make maps in this style yourself.

Please contribute and help make the atlas better, we always need more maps

The Text Editor

This is the editor to use if you don't want any kind of formatting.

Everything you write with this editor will just turn out as plain text. It does not support any kind of formatting. Emoticons stay as plain text, and links are not automatically parsed into links, nor is there a way to make them links manually. It doesn't support attachments of any kind. Quotes can still be used, and appear as in plain text emails, i.e. with a > prefixing each quoted line.

I guess this is still a Wysiwyg editor, because all you see is plain text, and all you get is plain text :)