It has been a practiced calendar week for fans of history maps, amongst the unloose of ii interactive maps dedicated to mapping the world's history.
First out of the blocks was Chronas. Imagine Google Maps amongst a appointment command which allows y'all to thought an atlas of the footing for whatsoever catamenia inwards history. That is the ambitious aim of Chronas.
Chronas allows y'all to thought an interactive map of the footing showing the province boundaries for whatsoever appointment from the twelvemonth 1 AD to the twelvemonth 2000. If y'all direct a twelvemonth from the fourth dimension slider, running along the bottom of the map, the map volition update to exhibit how the footing looked at the chosen time.
Each of these historical maps is fully interactive. If y'all click on a province or geographical surface area on the map a Wikipedia article on the selected historical percentage volition opened upward inwards the map sidebar. For example, if y'all direct the twelvemonth 573 AD from the fourth dimension slider, y'all tin direct the Visigoths percentage on the map to larn to a greater extent than nigh the Visigoths from Wikipedia.
Also released this calendar week was American Panorama, a superb novel historical mapping projection from the University of Richmond.
You may recall that concluding twelvemonth the academy released an interactive mapped showcase of the nearly 700 maps inwards the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. That interactive map allows y'all to thought maps from Charles O. Paullin as well as John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, published inwards 1932. The Atlas contained hundreds of maps roofing a vast arrive at of social, economical as well as political aspects of life inwards the Untied States, all of which tin at 1 time endure viewed on pinnacle of an interactive Leaflet map on the university's website.
Richmond University has at 1 time unveiled a novel projection to map of import themes as well as events inwards American history. American Panorama currently has 4 interactive maps exploring the early on history of the United States. The showtime 4 maps from the projection then far are; The Forced Migration of Enslaved People, The Overland Trails, Foreign-Born Population as well as Canals.
There volition endure many to a greater extent than maps to come upward exploring other aspects of American history.
Two Thousand Years of Urban Growth is a 3D globe visualizing the history of population alter around the footing over the concluding 2,000 years. The map was made yesteryear Esri using their novel ArcGIS API for JavaScript amongst D3.js.
City populations around the footing are shown on the globe amongst 3d bar charts placed over each city. The timeline slide command allows y'all to conform the appointment inwards fellowship to thought the metropolis populations for dissimilar dates throughout history. If y'all direct a city's bar on the globe y'all tin too thought a describe of piece of job nautical chart showing the city's population over the concluding 2,000 years.
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