The Historical Places map just got a nice feature for the Northern part Belgium. For the whole of Flanders, Brussels and a part of Wallonia you can now see the Vandermaelen map. This maps dates from 1846-1854.

How can you explore this map ? First go to the Historical map, hover over “Here is the map” and pick the language of your choice.

On the map navigate to any place in Flanders, then click the globe in the right corner. You should see

Check the “Topografische kaart Vandermalen (1846-1854). This should start the loading of the tiles.

You can play with the transparancy of the historic map and the mapnik layer by pressing the - and + buttons on their right.

Enjoy !

A big thank you to the team of the historic map to make those tiles available.