Arcanum Maps | Arcanum

(Formerly Mapire)

Arcanum Maps presents detailed and accurate historical maps of several countries in an innovative way:

Great military surveys
Maps of countries and cities
Thematic maps

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3D view

Our interactive maps are also available in 3D. You can tilt, rotate and navigate , as well as zoom into them.

Synchronized view

Interactive maps provide 3D and synchronized views for comparison of contemporary and historic ones.

Measure distance

Select two points, and view their distance. You can also select paths to see the total distance.

Measure areas

Select an area and view its size. You can also select multiple areas.

3D and synchronized views

Interactive maps can be viewed in 3D and synchronized side-by-side for easy comparison.

Search settlement names

Search settlements on any of our maps, and we show its location regardless of its existence at the time of the map's creation.

Measure distance and areas

Measure distances or areas on any of our maps. Just select the corners and the size is shown.

Prices

Searching the maps and low-resolution viewing are free of charge without a subscription.

For full online access to high-resolution maps, choose one of our subscription plans, which also include a subscription to the Arcanum Newspapers database. This gives you access to millions of pages of historical press materials alongside the maps.

Subscription plans Free version

Would you like to download a specific, high-resolution scanned map sheet ? You can easily do this directly from the respective map. The price for each sheet is a flat rate of 9.99 Euros.

Roam around the old Habsburg lands in time and space in the improved website of ours. A new success of the Arcanum Adatbázis Kiadó. Enjoy!

Good evening! First of all, I'd like to thank you for your archives, maps are very interesting! Your work in digitalizing every notable document, printed media of very wide range is amazing, i wish my country could have one project like yours!

Technological background

Read about the scanning, georeferencing and visualization of historical maps

Scientific background

The technical implementation of digitization, georeferencing, and development of the web application based on the Microsoft Bing platform have been led by Arcanum Adatbázis Kft.

You can find references to maps.arcanum.com for scientific publications under Publications .

Cooperating institutions

Austrian State Archives: The owner of the Josephinische and Franziszeische Landesaufnahme .
Hungarian National Archives: The owner of the cadastral maps of Hungary.
Government Office of the Capital City Budapest (legal successor of the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing): The owner and guardian of the Hungarian cadastral maps.
Croatian State Archives: The owner of the cadastral maps of Croatia.
Hungarian War Archives: The owner of the Franzisco-Josephinische Landesaufnahme .
City Archives of Budapest: The owner of the historical maps of Budapest.
Arcanum Adatbázis Kft: The developer of the software and specialist in digitization and georeferencing.
Department of Geophysics and Space Science, ELTE: with their scientific expertise.
Gábor Timár PhD: Scientific Advisor.