# Landnotes

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Landnotes and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** An interactive world history atlas where you can browse events by month and year or ask what happened in a place at a given time.

## Why people recommend it

- Browse events by month and year (1 comments): "This is very very cool! I went right to the month and year of my birth" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994780))
- Ask what happened in a place (1 comments): "an atlas where you can ask "what happened in Japan in 1923"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991754))
- Seen as cool and well made (2 comments): "This is very very cool! I went right to the month and year of my birth" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994780)) "This looks pretty cool actually, nice job!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991949))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Where the Romans Fought](https://hackerapproved.com/p/where-the-romans-fought-interactive-map.md): 11 recommend
- [Oldinsurancemaps.net](https://hackerapproved.com/p/oldinsurancemaps-net.md): 10 recommend
- [Itiner-e](https://hackerapproved.com/p/itiner-e.md): 9 recommend
- [War Atlas](https://hackerapproved.com/p/war-atlas.md): 9 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://landnotes.org/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Landnotes", https://hackerapproved.com/p/landnotes/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).