Category Archives: Historical Maps

The App!

Posted on November 25, 2009 by admin

Ok so this is it, the project ended 4 weeks ago, but we’ve been fiddling with it ever since. Its a very cool product and has opened up many possibilities in terms of research, innovation and possible industrial links. This … Continue reading →

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Cross Platform?

Posted on August 18, 2009 by admin

One of our goals was to try and produce something which worked cross platform.  We recognised this was a bit of a steep call but our lofty goals haven’t stopped us this far.  As a lot of our earlier work … Continue reading →

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Testing Times Ahead!

Posted on August 17, 2009 by admin

Chris is going to have good play with the version 1 of the application. So we have produced a very quick summary of the available functions in the first phase of testing

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Work on the Basics

Posted on August 4, 2009 by admin

With our recent successes in prototpying our next step is to get the basic functionality agreed: Create Database Model -> 1 day follow the user – > poll position – 1 day Navigation across the top – to change the … Continue reading →

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Typographic Map

Posted on July 29, 2009 by admin

http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/july1/massive-printer – This is quite amazing and kind of related to our discussion about Tag Clouds and Mapping

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Talk of Deloreans and TagClouds

Posted on July 28, 2009 by admin

As we got our demo working our next phase is to move onto actually making it do something.  So after some sessions with Chris and Karlyn, Petra and I went away and attempted to come up with something useful which … Continue reading →

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Our area for testing

Posted on July 20, 2009 by admin

This is the area that we’ll be testing the project around. The area is steeped in history and has a great many historical maps that re kept online for us to access.

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One Small Step…

Posted on July 14, 2009 by admin

One small step for the Team. On Friday we managed to get our first image rendered locked to our position  – well in truth after a little bit of fiddling around, we got it. This was done using Javascript to … Continue reading →

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Victorian Town Plans Overlays

Posted on May 2, 2009 by admin

Ian found this at the National Library of Scotland Victorian town plans top satellite views Elgin satellite and town plan layers. List of town plans with overlays The latest feature in their online maps series makes it easy to contrast … Continue reading →

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Book

Posted on April 29, 2009 by admin

This could be good… http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rjhs/2008/00000014/00000003 and in particular this essay inside: New Media, Cultural Heritage and the Sense of Place: Mapping the Conceptual Ground pp. 197-209(13) Author: Malpas, Jeff

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