A surprisingly large part of my research of old German folk tales is trying to identify the places mentioned in these details. They are often not mentioned on Google Maps, although Open Street Maps frequently provides better results.
But a particularly useful resource has been Arcanum Maps, which uses old survey maps from the 19th century or earlier as Google Maps layers - and these often do have period names for locations that have vanished from modern maps. This has been especially important for Silesia and other regions where German place names were common, but which now only use Polish names.
If you are interested in historic maps, then check this site out!
#cartography #history
https://maps.arcanum.com/
@juergen_hubert@thefolklore.cafe
Thanks for sharing, looks amazing!
G***** Maps’ only advantage is the convenience of their direct advertising neatly woven into their UI/UX. Actual map data is not half as good
@frankenswine@lemmy.world They do have some locations that OpenStreetMap has not (and vice versa), and they are more friendly for finding places with alternate spelling. There is a reason I check both.
Also, their linked images are useful for visualizing these locations. Though I think I saw an OpenStreetMap version with geotagged images once, but I can’t find it again.
there definitively are, though rather scarce. it’d be oh so great if OsmAnd allowed to relatively easily add or edit data
