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Historical maps

The Royal Mughal Maps takes you back to a historical time of different eras, where you can see historical events based on the map and location of the event with all the details of the map that live on.

If you own a historical map and wish to donate it for preservation and research use, we welcome it to help improve this project and participate in new research in the field of historical cartography.

You can add your maps to The Royal Mughal Maps.

We are open to partnership on national or European projects. Don’t hesitate to contact us.

Combining these collections allows us to build a vast amount of information spanning several centuries of cartographic information.

Historic Map Works’ map collection includes:

Special collections (celestial maps, portraits, and other historical images)

Directions and other text documents of the mughal era.

The vast majority of our database was created by scanning an original map at a high resolution by our team of highly skilled image technicians. After scanning, this hard process on the map interpretation with maintaining the look of an antiquarian map.

Maps are then uploaded and cataloged for viewing on our website. Our technicians process each map to a modern map to enable the search by address function. Using the historic images in our database with geocode data allows visitors to search by modern city address or latitude and longitude coordinates. Other functions to view our maps include browsing by geographic location as well as searching our maps via keywords, town names, makers names, or simply by year.

How does the Maps work?

  • Mughal layers allow you to see an area change through time, and our Geocode feature allows you to compare historical and modern maps.
  • An easy to use interface to allow you to browse, view and print historical maps.
  • Contemporary and historical search tools. For example, you could search for a location using contemporary postcodes, place names and National Grid References, or historical parish and county names and latitude and longitude.
  • A facility for directly comparing two maps from different times but of the same location. As you pan and zoom one map, the other will follow. This allows comparison of changes through time. If you have access to both the historic maps and contemporary OS maps through Digimap, then you will be able to directly compare contemporary Land-LinePlus and historic maps.
  • A simple data download facility, so that the maps you view can be downloaded to your computer for use in a Geographic Information System (GIS) or image processing software. The map data is available in TIFF format with either TFW world files for ESRI GIS use or TAB files for MapInfo users.
  • On-site help with using Historic Digi map, and understanding the historical maps and technical issues relating to their use in the service, GIS and image processing software.