Open History Map Explorations
Plate №.D168

Explorations

Public, single-subject editions built on the Open History Map platform — atlases, galleries and timelines that take one slice of the world and map it across space and time.

Alongside the core map, the OHM team builds focused, public-facing editions: each takes a single subject — the rulers of an age, the ideas of a civilisation, the wineries of a region, the front lines of a war — and renders it as its own atlas, gallery or timeline.

They share the platform’s machinery (time-aware tiles, the data index, the located-views back-end) but each stands on its own domain, with its own audience. Most are assembled from open sources — Wikidata, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and, for the war atlases, the THOR dataset — and several refresh themselves on a schedule.

10 editions, on a shared timeline

Each bar marks the span an edition covers, plotted left-to-right from deep antiquity to today; where a scholarly periodization exists, its periods are drawn faintly behind the bar, sourced from PeriodO. The four ongoing editions below are live datasets, refreshed on a schedule.
  1. Map of the First World War atlas · 1914 → 1918
  2. Map of the Second World War atlas · 1939 → 1945
  3. Rulers of Ancient Egypt gallery · Narmer → Cleopatra · UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
  4. Rulers of the Past atlas · Antiquity → 18th c.
  5. Ideas of Ancient Rome timeline · 753 BC → AD 476 · Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH)
  6. Rulers of Ancient Rome gallery · Romulus → AD 476 · Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH)
  7. Ongoing · continuously refreshed
  8. Open Culture Map map · Present day · Europe
  9. Open Wine Map atlas · Present day
  10. Open Art Map atlas · All periods
  11. Visions of the Past street view · All periods