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The OpenHistoricalMap domain name was purchased in 2009, [10] and an initial fork of the OpenStreetMap website software was deployed there in 2013. [3] [11]In 2015, the similarly named OpenHistoryMap project was founded to promote sharing of archaeological and historical data according to an open access model.
too small to map: December 8, 1915 The United States expropriated from Panama a triangle of land, which included the historic Fort San Lorenzo, between the Rio Chagres, Caribbean Sea and the Panama Canal Zone, to which it was annexed. [367] January 17, 1916 Navassa Island was formally claimed for lighthouse purposes. [368] no change to map ...
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A National Atlas map from 2002 National Atlas map (from circa 2005) depicting historical United States territorial acquisitions. The National Atlas of the United States was an atlas published by the United States Department of the Interior from 1874 to 1997. Older editions were printed, but the most recent edition was available online.
Republic of Indian Stream (1832–1835) is represented on the map as the disputed territory between Maine and New Hampshire of the U.S. and Quebec and New Brunswick of Canada. Republic of Madawaska (1827) is represented on the map as the disputed territory between Maine (U.S.) and Canada. The area, known as Madawaska Valley, was transferred to ...
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is a large private map collection with over 150,000 maps and cartographic items. The collection was created by David Rumsey who, after making his fortune in real estate, focused initially on collecting 18th- and 19th century maps of North and South America, as this era "saw the rise of modern cartography."