Maps and cartography have been very important to human beings for centuries. Now we are very used to entering Google Maps and looking for a route to a certain place, but there are alternatives to this application, especially if what we want is to download other types of maps. If that is your case, we give you some websites that you can use to download a wide variety of maps from around the world and even from other times to your computer.
With these websites we will be able to download maps and we will even give you an option so that you can design your maps. All of them are totally free , so you won’t have to spend a penny to buy maps.
Pro Humanities Resources
This page, owned by Professor Matías Cáceres Dávila, has a surprisingly large catalog of maps. The page may look a bit sloppy in terms of design, but it certainly can’t be faulted for its large .
In it, we are going to find maps of all kinds, both maps of the world at a geographical level, at a political level and even at a climatological level. To download the maps we will only have to search for the one we need and click on the download button. No registration and no waiting .
ViaMichelin
If what you are interested in is a good road map, there is no better place to go than this Michelin website. Here we will be able to find the roads of the entire geography and the best thing of all is that we will be able to download that part of the map that interests us.
To do this, all we have to do is go to the bottom left of the map and click on the printer icon . Once this is done, a new window will appear in which we must choose which part of the map and its roads we want to download. Once this part is selected, you only have to hit Print at the top right and you will have it on your computer.
National Library of Spain
If, on the other hand, what you are looking for are classic or historical maps, there is no better place to go than the National Library of Spain. On this website, you will have digitized maps from several centuries ago and, of course, you will also have the possibility of downloading them to your computer.
Here we will find both historical maps and maritime cartography maps, as well as a map of the Spanish railway. To download them, we will only have to click on the one that interests us and open its digitized version. Once this is done, we will only have to save the PDF as we would do on any website .
MapChart
With MapChart you won’t have a problem finding the map you need, and this website is precisely for you to create your perfect map yourself . We will have a multitude of geographical options for it and its interface is very intuitive.
If we go to the bottom of the web, we will see how we have all the regions of the world available to download separately, as well as countries where we will find options such as Mexico, Sweden or, of course, Spain. We will also be able to create color graphics on the same map , which is ideal if you need a map for some type of presentation.
d maps
We close this list of maps with d-maps, a website that has a library of more than 285,000 maps to its credit. If, for example, we select to download maps of Germany, we will have the possibility of downloading several, both from regions and from all over its geography.
We can download these maps completely empty, but also adding interesting information such as the borders, the main cities, the hydrography or even all the roads.
