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In the article We mapped it so you don’t have to the University of Georgia (UGA) Libraries’ Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab compare several mapping systems that students and faculty might consider using:
  • Google Fusion Tables
  • Carto
  • ArcGIS
  • Neatline (and Omeka)
None seem very relevant to One-Place Studies.

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M4OPS - for Users / Hangout on Mapping for One-Place Studies
« on: 4 December 2017, 09:57:51 »
The Society for One-Place Studies hangout on Mapping for One-Place Studies, hosted by Peter Cooper in April 2017, can be found on YouTube. It starts with a demo of our prototype mapping system (M4OPS).


See also about M4OPS on Youtube.

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Archives of Ontario Offers New Digitized Patent Plans - "use this great new online resource to trace your ancestors’ Crown land records. The images are fully accessible and in high-resolution in a zoomable format that allows you to view fine details. They show the status of Crown lands, whether patented, leased, or under a license of occupation."

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Mapping Technologies we can probably ignore / GPS Visualizer
« on: 4 December 2017, 07:42:13 »
GPS Visualizer is "an online utility that creates maps and profiles from geographic data. It is free and easy to use, yet powerful and extremely customizable. Input can be in the form of GPS data (tracks and waypoints), driving routes, street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you've been, plan where you're going, or quickly visualize geographic data (scientific observations, events, business locations, customers, real estate, geotagged photos, etc.)."

One of the places it is used is the Walking Englishman site mentioned here.

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Other Mapping things / The Greenwich Meridian Trail
« on: 4 December 2017, 07:38:08 »
The Greenwich Meridian Trail is 439 km (273 miles) and follows the line of the Prime Meridian as closely as practical, using public rights of way. The route does not slavishly stick to The Meridian, but has been chosen to give an interesting, varied and memorable walk. These two websites Walking Englishman and LDWA (Long Distance Walkers Association) include an interactive map.

The LDWA map uses maps from John Thorne, which are specifically designed for walkers in Britain.

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The Isaac Johnson Map Collection (HD11/475) at Suffolk Record Office has surveys and maps of estates in almost every parish in East Suffolk as well as many in West Suffolk.  Isaac Johnson (1754-1835) was a Woodbridge based Topographical Artist and Land Surveyor.

Some have been digitised.

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This Map of the Lviv ghetto in Ukraine and the nearby Janowska concentration camp, have helped Waitman Beorn understand how the Holocaust was perpetrated at the local level and what life was like for individual Jews suffering under Nazi rule.

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Recommended Mapping Solutions / Smart History
« on: 2 December 2017, 06:50:12 »
Smart History (the future of the past) "delivers the highest quality content and interpretations in bespoke mobile packages, virtual environments and onsite installations. We use new and emerging technologies." Their products include:
  • Virtual Time Binoculars- immersive 3D reconstructions, that can be viewed through virtual reality glasses on site (as an example see Edinburgh 1544)
  • Location-Aware Multimedia Mobile Apps - “we want people to understand the past in ways never before possible, by moving inside the digital worlds we create and populating those worlds with the very best research and knowledge”
  • Immersive 3D Reconstructions - of historic buildings, settlements, towns and cities
  • Interactive Installations - avatars can be used with gaming controls or kinect (motion sensing) to enhance the immersive experience
  • Digital Museums - to present existing and recreated objects in coherent digital collections
  • 360 Tours - of digital and real world sites and landscapes, which can be delivered to users on the web or in apps
Among other technologies they use RoundMe - "the World's most hassle-free 360o Virtual Reality publishing and panoramic tours authoring platform" Another interesting site about 360o photography is 360Cities.

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Although not very useful at the local level, the article Where to Find GIS Data for Historical Country Boundaries has some useful pointers.

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Historian uses Google Streetview to find Britain's “lost” 1930s-era cycleways and raises Kickstarter funding to "rescue Britain's forgotten 1930s protected cycleways"

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Other Mapping things / Ancient Maps
« on: 2 December 2017, 06:07:49 »
Ancient Maps that Changed the World: See World Maps from Ancient Greece, Babylon, Rome, and the Islamic World.

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Mapping Technologies we can probably ignore / The Place Database
« on: 2 December 2017, 05:40:17 »
The Place Database is "a map of the United States which uses the PolicyMap platform to visualize the latest available data for dozens of indicators—ranging from housing affordability, to brownfield sites, to federal government spending."

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Other Mapping things / Maps of the (US) Civil War
« on: 1 December 2017, 18:35:12 »
In this article on Maps of the Civil War, Judy G. Russell (The Legal Genealogist) says there’s almost nothing better for genealogical research than historical maps. There are links to plenty of maps.

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Recommended Mapping Solutions / Mobile Mapping
« on: 1 December 2017, 18:23:35 »
Evolution of Mobile Mapping (2017) describes how much easier it is to do mapping these days.

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Other Mapping things / Map of the 1906 San Francisco Quake
« on: 1 December 2017, 18:14:12 »
The Ultimate Photo Map of the 1906 San Francisco Quake describes a map compiled to show where photos after the quake were probably taken.

This is just one part of the complete photo map of San Francisco on the Western Neighborhoods Project OpenSFHistory website.

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