Interesting Links: Travelling
Aug. 28th, 2022 01:08 pmPlanning Your Travel
Make My Drive Fun:Enter a starting point and a destination. The site will show you interesting places to stop along the way.
Denmark Art Explorer: Explore Denmark via art objects from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK)
Travelling without Leaving Home
Persepolis Reimagined Take a tour in a Persian city 2500 years ago
Virtual Visit Tours: Fully interactive 360 degree virtual tours across Ireland
Virtual tour of Chauvet Cave: contains some of the best-preserved cave paintings in the world, dating back as far as 36,500 years ago.
4k WALK: Youtube channel about walking tours of city streets and natural scenery in different countries
Apollo in Real Time: A real-time journey through the Apollo missions
Maps across the history
OpenHistoricalMap: a crowdsourced project designed to store and display map data throughout the history of the world
USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer: Explore Maps of the United States from 1884 to 2006. You can see how a place changes through the overlay of maps over the current location.
Topotijdreis: It functions like the USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer, but it's for Netherlands (In Dutch)
David Rumsey Map Collection: virtual library of more than 150,000 maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania from 16th through 21st century
Library of Congress Maps Collections
Make My Drive Fun:Enter a starting point and a destination. The site will show you interesting places to stop along the way.
Denmark Art Explorer: Explore Denmark via art objects from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK)
Travelling without Leaving Home
Persepolis Reimagined Take a tour in a Persian city 2500 years ago
Virtual Visit Tours: Fully interactive 360 degree virtual tours across Ireland
Virtual tour of Chauvet Cave: contains some of the best-preserved cave paintings in the world, dating back as far as 36,500 years ago.
4k WALK: Youtube channel about walking tours of city streets and natural scenery in different countries
Apollo in Real Time: A real-time journey through the Apollo missions
Maps across the history
OpenHistoricalMap: a crowdsourced project designed to store and display map data throughout the history of the world
USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer: Explore Maps of the United States from 1884 to 2006. You can see how a place changes through the overlay of maps over the current location.
Topotijdreis: It functions like the USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer, but it's for Netherlands (In Dutch)
David Rumsey Map Collection: virtual library of more than 150,000 maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania from 16th through 21st century
Library of Congress Maps Collections