Landnotes
Shares rank 22 of 26 interactive maps by recommenders
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.
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.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Browse events by month and year
“This is very very cool! I went right to the month and year of my birth”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC” Ask what happened in a place
“an atlas where you can ask "what happened in Japan in 1923"”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC” Seen as cool and well made
“This is very very cool! I went right to the month and year of my birth”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC” “This looks pretty cool actually, nice job!”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC”
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The four most recommended other interactive maps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| isometric.nyc | 52 | 8 | 87% | 3 | — | — |
| Map of Metal | 34 | 4 | 89% | 2 | — | — |
| CheapFoodMap | 29 | 8 | 78% | 1 | — | — |
| Isopolis | 27 | 7 | 79% | 1 | — | — |
| LandnotesThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
4 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“This is very very cool! I went right to the month and year of my birth”
“This looks pretty cool actually, nice job!”
“I certainly had this problem with https://landnotes.org/”
“an atlas where you can ask "what happened in Japan in 1923"”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.