Koniggratz 1866

[fsn]

Mr Cameronian. Please would you let these burly gentlemen escort you into that dark alley where you will find your coat?

[cameronian]

http://mapire.eu/en/map/firstsurvey/?layers=osm%2C1%2C73&bbox=1612247.799351683%2C6537191.022945242%2C1734547.0446079648%2C6590161.883546868

Not sure if this has been put up before, huge and incredibly detailed 18th century map of 'Habsburgia' its possible to zoom right down to villages, very useful for finding out German names of hamlets now named in Czech

19th century

http://mapire.eu/en/map/hkf_75e/?layers=osm%2C8&bbox=1677764.106974012%2C6552431.679275802%2C1685407.8098025296%2C6555742.358063404

[toxicpixie]

Yes, that's an excellent site!

I've always had half a mind to see I could scrape the images at a usable scale and get them printed onto a PVC banner for an authentic "map game" experience with BBB

[Steve J]

Wow, what an amazing amount of detail. Things I noted are:

- In the first map, the hills shown seem to have little semblance to the actual topography of the area. This is based upon looking at Linz and its environs. Mind you given the wooded nature of a lot of the hills, they still give a good guide to the area.

- How the Danube meandered all over the place, with many, many islands in mid-stream. How it has changed with modern drainage etc.