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2024-10-08 Method of buying plates replaced - it is no longer automated. Search process rewritten – maybe slightly improved. Site all working again
2024-09-26 Migration continues. The plates from all atlases are now accessible, except 54 whose maps have vanished. Search, and buying of maps, are no longer possible. Atlases 01..53 accessible
2024-09-25 Migration is going slowly. The plates from some atlases are now accessible, but the text includes error warnings. Atlases 01..10 accessible
2024-09-04 Migrate the site to a new server, causing many errors None of the atlases accessible
2024-08 Upgrade to web server caused loss of most of site Only 10 of the atlases accessible
2023-07-19 Automatic sales process restored resumption of normal sales
2023-06 The change to https causes the automatic sales process to malfunction interruption to sales
2023-05 Moved from http://maproom.org to https://maproom.org, causing temporary loss of service site move
2022-03-15 Historischer Schul-Atlas, ed. 44, F.W.Putzger, 1923. Now out of copyright. atlas added
2020-06-30 Atlas zur Geschichte der sächsischen Länder, M. Moritz Tutzschmann, 1852. 21 (of 22) plates of the territorial divisions of Saxony. atlas added
2018-01-03 The system for handling automatic sales of map images was re-enabled. map purchase pages re-enabled
2017-12-23 The system for handling automatic sales of map images stopped working, and was disabled until the error could be fixed. map purchase pages disabled
2016-12-23 The system for handling automatic sales of map images was re-enabled. map purchase pages re-enabled
2016-03 The system for handling automatic sales of map images stopped working, and was disabled until the error could be fixed. map purchase pages disabled
2015-06-11 Altered all pages that display maps, to use the latest version of Zoomify, which is better in many ways, and works with android devices. Access to maps improved
2015-05-03 The error in the handling of automatic sale of map images was traced and fixed. map purchase pages re-enabled
2015-03 The system for handling automatic sales of map images stopped working, and was disabled until the error could be fixed. map purchase pages disabled
2014-02-16 Kriegsgeschichtlicher Atlas, Fritz Schirmer, 1912. 58 plates of battles and military campaigns, 1792-1921 atlas added
2014-02-01 Joint Maps of the Northern Boundary of the United States, 1878. 24 plates showing the eastern part of the 49th parallel atlas added
2014-01-09 von Groʃs's Historisch-Militairischen Atlas, 1808. 18 plates showing campaigns and battles from the Napoleonic wars atlas added
2012-12-12 Atlas de Filipinas, 1899: 30 plates of The Philippines. atlas added
2012-09 The malware described below was removed, and the site's password strengthened to prevent a recurrence.
2012-08 The site was hacked, so that users with browsers that did not detect and block malware saw links to a suspicious site in the .vu top-level domain.
2009-10-10 Atlas do Brazil, 1909: 10 plates of Brazil, and 23 of its provinces. atlas added
2009-06-23 Die Bulgaren / The Bulgarians / Les Bulgares / Българитҍ, 1917: 37 plates of Balkan and specifically Bulgarian history and ethnography atlas added
2008-03-14 Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland, Joyce and Sullivan, 1905: 40 plates of Irish coats of arms book plates added
2008-01-12 Spruner-Menke: Hand-Atlas für die Geschichte des Mittelalters und die neueren Zeit, 1880: 90 plates of medieval and modern historical maps atlas added
2007-12-21 Spruner-Menke: Atlas Antiquus, 1865: 31 plates of classical maps atlas added
2007-11-28 Gazetteer to Marx's Atlas so you can look up places on the sixteen plates of European Russia gazetteer added
2007-10-21 Saxony, 1145 - 1815 now has map and text for the reassignments of 1826 map added
2007-10 Cambridge Modern History Atlas, 1912: 141 historical maps, 1490-1910 atlas added
2007-07 Victoria Regina Atlas, 1897: plates of India only section of atlas added
2007-07 Family Atlas, S.D.U.K., 1876: a world atlas including interesting geological and star maps atlas added
2007-06-21 Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas: 42 maps of English counties showing territories of fox hunts. atlas added