[https://www.kbr.be/nl/projecten/kaart-van-ferraris/](https://www.kbr.be/nl/projecten/kaart-van-ferraris/)
The map is made up of more than 250 boards. On the site linked above, select the board you would like to inspect on the map; it should become outlined in orange. Then, click on the name or number of the selected board, which appears in blue above the map. A window should then open, letting you zoom and pan around it.
The legend can be found here: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Ferraris\_maps\_legend.png](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Ferraris_maps_legend.png)
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You can also just go to geopunt.be , select “travel through time” on the left, and then see the entire map of flanders, zoom and pan however you like, even look up a specific adress, and with a slider see the same place how it´s today, aerial photographs from the 70´s and old maps all the way back to the ~~Ferraris~~ *even older Fricx* maps.
One of the buildings of the flemmish governement is named after Ferraris:
https://www.vlaanderen.be/vlaamse-overheid/gebouwen/graaf-de-ferrarisgebouw
I knew about the map, but I didn’t realize that it had such a detailed legend. Honestly makes it even more impressive.
Even more: for Flanders u can consult other historical maps through the [Geopunt.be](https://Geopunt.be) website:
check under tab “historische kaarten”:
[https://prnt.sc/azKKBfO3GsRC](https://prnt.sc/azKKBfO3GsRC)
The Ferraris map is awesome, I have spent a lot of time looking at it.
I have a physical edition of it at home (a bound atlas that’s a reproduction at smaller scale but still takes up half my dinner table when it’s open). It’s just really fascinating to see how many things have changed, and at the same time how many things are still the same.
Fun fact; It is one of the reparations we got from Austria from WWI. As the Austrians originally paid to make the map of what was then the Austrian Netherlands.