the astonishing david rumsey map collection ... and the man himself

https://www.davidrumsey.com/

https://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2023/9/21/john-hessler-in-conversation-with-david-rumsey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rumsey

if your graphics card can handle it, interact with a coronelli globe from the 1690s ...

https://www.davidrumsey.com/globes/coronelli-celestial-globe-1693

or, maybe ... navigate your way from guernsey to poole harbour using a chart printed in revolutionary france on 1799

https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~352098~90119281:Carte-Reduite-De-La-Manche---Tom-3-?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort&qvq=w4s:/where%2FEngland;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=28&trs=4077

they have recently developed an app that will find you a village on an old map

https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~284505~90057047:jarandilla-de-la-vera?annotIds=365976999%2C365977091%2C365977079%2C365976974