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The National Library of Scotland has a good collection of digitised maps (mostly for the UK, but also less-detailed maps of Europe and the world) [1].

If you click "Explore georeferenced maps" you can superimpose the historical map on top of a modern base map (or Bing Satellite imagery), and then adjust its transparency with a slider: here's a similar view using the 1885-1093 One-Inch OS survey map [2] (for comparison, the map pasted by the OP is from 1682, which an information box tells you, but only if your browser-window is wide enough).

[1]: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore

[3]: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=51.5100&lon=-0.0...



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