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Re:Show HN: I built Chronoscope, because Google Maps won't let you vis... on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:52PM (#47356921)

Yay! Glad to hear that - let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see added!

Re:Show HN: I built Chronoscope, because Google Maps won't let you vis... on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:50AM (#47348921)

Thanks for the feedback!!

Ah that's a really cool feature idea - I think this website does something similar to that on the OHM data: https://hanshack.com/point-in-history/#2.13/28.9/37.44

Show HN: I built Chronoscope, because Google Maps won't let you visit 3400 BCE

Posted by tinkeringtechie on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:33AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://shiphappens.xyz/chronoscope/

I built Chronoscope, a project to explore the world through time.I've been wanting to do this for a while, after being inspired by Ollie Bye's "History of the World" video several years ago.I'm not the first person to have done this - resources like OpenHistoricalMaps are amazing.But, I noticed there were a few disparate datasets / academic databases online, so I combined them together as best...

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