It has been a proficient calendar week for fans of history maps, amongst the liberate of ii interactive maps dedicated to mapping the world's history.
First out of the blocks was Chronas. Imagine Google Maps amongst a engagement command which allows y'all to persuasion an atlas of the footing for whatever catamenia inwards history. That is the ambitious aim of Chronas.
Chronas allows y'all to persuasion an interactive map of the footing showing the the world boundaries for whatever engagement from the twelvemonth i AD to the twelvemonth 2000. If y'all choose a twelvemonth from the fourth dimension slider, running along the bottom of the map, the map volition update to present how the footing looked at the chosen time.
Each of these historical maps is fully interactive. If y'all click on a the world or geographical expanse on the map a Wikipedia article on the selected historical percentage volition opened upward inwards the map sidebar. For example, if y'all choose the twelvemonth 573 AD from the fourth dimension slider, y'all tin choose the Visigoths percentage on the map to larn to a greater extent than well-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 retrieve that final 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 persuasion maps from Charles O. Paullin in addition to 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 attain of social, economical in addition to political aspects of life inwards the Untied States, all of which tin straight off hold upward viewed on elevation of an interactive Leaflet map on the university's website.
Richmond University has straight off unveiled a novel projection to map of import themes in addition to events inwards American history. American Panorama currently has iv interactive maps exploring the early on history of the United States. The showtime iv maps from the projection in addition to hence far are; The Forced Migration of Enslaved People, The Overland Trails, Foreign-Born Population in addition to Canals.
There volition hold upward 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 to a greater extent than or less the footing over the final 2,000 years. The map was made past times Esri using their novel ArcGIS API for JavaScript amongst D3.js.
City populations to a greater extent than or less the footing are shown on the globe amongst 3d bar charts placed over each city. The timeline slide command allows y'all to accommodate the engagement inwards social club to persuasion the metropolis populations for dissimilar dates throughout history. If y'all choose a city's bar on the globe y'all tin equally good persuasion a business nautical chart showing the city's population over the final 2,000 years.
