NEU-YORK is an obsessively detailed alternate-history map, imagining how Manhattan might have looked had the Nazis conquered it in World War II.

http://www.megophone.com/neuyork.html

To see the entire project go to: "Click here for 21 different views of my imagined city," on that page.

From the Project Description:

"NEU-YORK is a cautionary meditation, suggesting what the local geographical reality might have been like had victorious Nazis succeeded in bringing the Third Reich across the Atlantic Ocean in 1945. At the same time it is an exploration of psychological transport, place, displacement and memory. This re-imagining of the city plays with comparison and misrecognition, exploring the coexistence of past and present, fiction and reality.

Originally a four-color lithographic map, NEU-YORK is an obsessive exercise in cartography with a "horrifying counterfactual proposition" — I have recreated an accurate map of Manhattan, circa 1939 (with no post-War developments like Lincoln Center), by scanning in several vintage maps and then digitally manipulating them — first erasing all Jewish stars representing synagogues and then removing all the street and location names, replacing them (following my own invented system of naming) with street and location names taken from actual Berlin maps of the same period, ultimately imposing 1939 Berlin on 1939 Manhattan in an historical juxtaposition/overlay. I chose paper and ink colors that would replicate the tones of an old map.

NEU-YORK takes the concept of "unbuilt landscape" to an extreme, moving beyond the architecture of individual structures towards a fantastical psycho-geographical projection of environmental and urban planning. And, while a historic document — a diagrammatic street map — is the inspiration for the project it is also the end result: A pseudo-historical artifact presenting an imaginary landscape which remains two-dimensional yet offers a distinctly visceral psychological topography in its representation of an invented space."

Snow. The streets of London in 1859.
A historical map with sites of Victorian London during the time of Dr. John Snow, the prominent epidemiologist and anesthesiologist. Mhm.
[via The Cartoonist]

Die hier vorliegende Schlaraffenlandkarte ist verschiedenen Ausgaben der Homannschen und der Seutterschen Atlanten des 18. Jahrhunderts beigebunden; vor 1716 ist sie nicht nachweisbar. Grundlage für diese Phantasiekarte ist ein Buch des kaiserlichen Generals Johann Andreas Schnebelin (+ 1706)

sehr fein da :o)

Auf blocksignal.de gibt es einen Stadtplan von Berlin mit Vororten von 1907 sowie Übersichtskarten der Reichsbahndirektion Berlin von 1943, 1946, 1953, 1959 und 1966.

Hier finden Sie eine große Sammlung von historischen Landkarten im Raum Mönchengladbach , Rheydt und Wickrath zwischen 1806 und 1994

This site contains a detailed examination of Chorographia Britanniæ, an atlas of the counties of England and Wales, first published in 1742
by William Henry Toms. All the plates in the atlas were engraved by Toms from drawings made by Thomas Badeslade. According to the title page the drawings were made and compiled into a book by Order and for the Use of his late Majesty King George I.

Atlas of the Baltic Sea by Aleksei Nagaev, 1757

Photographed and described from a copy in the
Helsinki University Library

Die Seite Waldwildnis.de widmet sich dem "größten zusammenhängenden Waldgebiet Europas", das im Dreiländereck Deutschland - Tschechien - Österreich gelegen ist und die Gebiete Bayerischer Wald, Böhmerwald, Sumawa und Mühlviertel umfasst.

Es wird unter anderem sehr ausführlich und anschaulich die Geschichte seiner Besiedelung und Bewirtschaftung gegeben, die jetzigen Nationalparks vorgestellt, insgesamt ist alles mit zahlreichen, schön geratenen Fotografien oder historischen Darstellungen verziert.

http://www.gisnet.com/notebook/unusual.htm

Alternative Geographie durch imaginäre Landschaften.