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May 12, 2008
New Rumsey Historical Maps for Google Earth
Over 100 new historical maps have been added to the Rumsey layer in Google Earth from David Rumsey's map collection of over 17,000 maps he has available online. The maps range from complete global maps to historical maps for cities around the world. Turn on the layer under "Gallery->Rumsey Historical Maps". You see placemarks for each map along with the date of the map and a thumbnail of what it looks like. Click on the thumbnail to load the map as an overlay in Google Earth. The maps are very fascinating to look at, and compare to the underlying "real" world. Select the layer and grab the transparency slider above to make comparisons, or turn on the "Borders" layer and adjust your zoom level to see how the borders match up to modern day political boundaries and coastlines. via Google Lat Long
Posted by FrankTaylor at May 12, 2008 03:56 PM
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Posted by: ryan at May 12, 2008 06:33 PM
Cool. I actually manually did this with some of his maps about 2 years ago (A couple that aren't included in this layer). I'm glad that somebody went to the trouble to do so many.
Posted by: ryan at May 12, 2008 09:52 PM
When you select a map, it loads it into your temporary places folder (in the my places section, not down in the layers). Click on that map and grab the transparency slider
Posted by: Ryan at May 13, 2008 11:47 AM
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It's not working for me. I only see the old maps. Yes Google Earth 4.3