This paper tends to highlight the growing interest in atlases, and the very earliest approaches led to a creation of comprehensive maps for linguistic phenomena, in the time of the emergence of geographical linguistics, a new discipline that identify the knowledge organized via maps and atlases, under the umbrella of a new field of research that is digital linguistic atlas. This paper tries, accordingly, to find an answer to some questions: What is the general scope of the recent western linguistic atlas projects? And how can Arab world benefit from these projects in this field to create their own digital linguistic atlases? Besides, it attempts to provide an overview of the earliest linguistic atlases in the Western world and their main perspectives.