This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
Asia carta diciasete piu moderna. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:3 000 000 (lat)]. Cartographic note: Graduated chart of Honshu, Shikoko and Kyushu. Mercator projection [prime eridian through Pico, Azores]. Contents note: The north part of the chart is
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National Maritime Museum
Carta di Noruegia piu moderna. Single sheet, engraving. Scale [circa 1:500,000 (lat)]. Mercator projection, from the prime meridian of Pico, Azores. Shows the coast of Norway. Decorated with a ship and a compass rose.
This chart is from Dudley's Del
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National Maritime Museum
Carta prima generale d'Affrica e parte d'America. Single sheet, engraving. Scale: [circa 1:9,000,000 (lat)]. Mercator projection with the prime meridian through Pico, Azores. The chart shows compass variation and currents. The eastwards continua
1646
National Maritime Museum
Carta prima generale dell'Asia. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:9 000 000 (lat)]. Additional Places: Oman, Borneo.
Plate 2 from Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare, vol 1.
1646
National Maritime Museum
Carta quinta generale di Europa. Single sheet, engraving. Scale [circa 1:1,500,000]. This is a graduated chart of the English Channel and the Atlantic coasts of southern Britain and northern France on Mercator's projection. Sandbanks, rocks and sound
1646
National Maritime Museum
Carta secon.a generale del'Asia. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:9 000 000]. Cartographic Note: Graduated for lat & long. Mercator projection, meridian of Pico, Azores. Variation shown. Additional Places: Philippines, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Mari
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National Maritime Museum
Carta seconda generale d'Affrica. Scale: circa 1:8,000,000 (lat at 20 degrees S). Chart of southern Africa from 8 degrees South including Madagascar. Mercator's projection. [Prime meridian through Pico, Azores]. From Dudley, Dell' Arcano de
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National Maritime Museum
Carta terza generale d'America. Single sheet. Engr. Cartographic Note: Graduated, Mercator projection, Pico meridian. Contents Note: Inset: [Straits of Magellan and southern tip of South America]. Plate 5 from Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano d
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National Maritime Museum
Carta terza generale del'Asia. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:20 000 000 (lat)]. Cartographic Note: Graduated. Mercator projection, Ferro meridian. Variation and currents noted. Additional Places: New Guinea, Japan, America. Contents Note: To the n
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National Maritime Museum
Carta terza generale di Europa A F Lucini fecit. Scale: circa 1:4,000,000 (lat). Graduated chart of the coasts of Portugal, Spain & North West Africa from Oporto to Cape Bojador including the Canaries and Azores. Mercator projection. [Prime meridian t
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National Maritime Museum
Celestial clockwork globe. Celestial clockwork globe. Astronomical details on the sphere include stars indicated by four different symbols, but there is no magnitude table. The Milky Way is drawn but not labelled. The stars are indicated by four different
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National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating Armand de Maillé, Duc de Brézé (1619-1646), and his devotion to the Queen. Counter commemorating Armand de Maillé, Duc de Brézé (1619-1646), and his devotion to the Queen. Obverse: A shield o
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National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the blockade of the Dardanelles, 1646. Counter commemorating the blockade of the Dardanelles, 1646. Obverse: St Mark seated (left), handing the sacred flag to the Doge kneeling (right). Legend: 'S . M . VEN . FRANC . MOLINO D
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National Maritime Museum