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The Domesday Book is the result of a survey carried out in England and parts of Wales in 1086. The book is one of the first and therefore oldest public records in England and therefore serves as a great resource for geographers, genealogists and historians. The Open Domesday Book is the first free online copy of the Domesday Book. It also includes a great Google Maps interface that allows users to search for locations and quickly find references in the Domesday Book to the location and places nearby. If you search for a location you can view on a Google Map the places mentioned in the Book in that area. If you click through on any of the referenced locations you can view an image of the original text and a breakdown of the data recorded in the Domesday Book.

Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time. When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action!

Google map of Knights Templar possesions View this page in Firefox - it has a peculiar mouse action. Mode d'emploi de la carte : Vous pouvez utiliser celle-ci exactement de la même façon que vous utilisez Google Earth® ou Google Maps®. Placez votre souris sur la carte à n'importe quel endroit, ensuite double-cliquez et la carte fera un zoom sur l'endroit que vous avez sélectionné. Pour faire défiler la carte, il suffit de faire un clic droit sur celle-ci et de déplacer votre souris tout en maintenant le bouton droit enfoncé. Lorsque vous cliquerez sur unsymbole (croix ou épées croisées), une petite info-bulle apparaitra avec un lien vers la page présentant l'endroit que vous venez de sélectionner.

"Conflict History [conflicthistory.com], developed by TecToys, summarizes all major human conflicts onto a single world map - from the historical wars way before the birth of Christ, until the drone attacks in Pakistan that are still happening today. The whole interactive map is build upon data retrieved from Google and Freebase open data services."

On the map shows the events from time of the First Crusade.. I mentioned the most important cities and fortresses of the Crusaders and the way of knights and armies to the Holy Land. Map applies only to the military part of the crusade.

The black death first arrived in Aberdeen in 1350. Three hundred years later, in 1646, a quarter of the population was killed by the plague. The magistrates of Aberdeen in 1585 even set up three gibbets to try to save the city. "that in case any infected person arrive or repair by sea or land to this Burgh, or in case any indweller of this Burgh receive, house or harbour, or give meat or drink to the infected person or persons, the man be hanged and the woman drowned". Most of the plague victims were buried in a pit here.

Springing from the Classical Atlas Project and the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, Pleiades is a historical gazetteer and more. It associates names and locations in time and provides structured information about the quality and provenance of these entities. There is also a graph in Pleiades: names and locations are collected within places and these collections are associated with other geographically connected places. Pleiades also serves as a vocabulary for talking about the geography of the ancient world within Linked Data sets and is referenced by research projects such as Google Ancient Places and PELAGIOS.