The New York Public Library has recently finished the digitization of 124 atlases on New York City. Most are fire insurance; i.e. Sanborn, maps of the city and its boroughs. The volumes range from 1815-1948 and contain over 7000 maps. If you want to see what neighborhoods looked like in startling detail back in the day, this would be a good first stop. These maps give you an idea of how the city has expanded over time, and that it did not have the same boundaries as it does now. For instance, where we grew up in Brooklyn is not even on the maps from the 1880s.
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Satellite Images of Haiti
This post explains how to effectively use both Google and Bing to retrieve high-quality satellite images of Haiti, both before and after. Well worth the look.
Current Online Maps of Haiti and Its Cities
This link from the University of Texas gives one access to updated maps of Haiti, along with maps of many of its cities, from Aquin to Saint-Marc; some of the maps(especially at the city level) have zoom capability. Sources of the maps range from the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency to Google Map Maker.
