Category Archives: Historical Maps
Testing Times Ahead!
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
Work on the Basics
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
Typographic Map
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
Talk of Deloreans and TagClouds
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
Our area for testing
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.
Victorian Town Plans Overlays
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
Book
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