Vision of Britain
The Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System is a unique digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time. Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps assembled into a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts. This site tells you more about the project itself and about historical GIS.
A separate website, created by funding from the UK National Lottery and extended and re-launched with funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee, makes this resource available on-line to everyone, presenting our information graphically and cartographically. That site is called A Vision of Britain through Time and presents the history of Great Britain through places. It can be found at www.visionofbritain.org.uk.
A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions:
- Topographical, land use and administration maps from the 19th and 20th Centuries:
- The largest collection of historical British travel writing on the web. Each author gives a different perspective on the towns and villages they visited.
- Since 1801 the Census has created a uniquely detailed record of our changing communities.
- Election results from every parliamentary election since 1833.
Light and Shadows: Emma Goldman 1910-1916
This website attempts to document all the places in America that Emma Goldman gave talks, and all the topics she spoke on, between 1910 and 1916. Goldman's activities are represented as a network of events, each of which can be associated with documents related to those events. Part of the Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context project. The prototype can be tried here: http://metadata.berkeley.edu/emma/
Animated historical map of Korea
Simple exemple of use of The Timemap software.
The THL Places Portal supports scholarly projects and participatory projects by local communities on the culture, ecology, and geography of the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayas. All resources will be published in a scholarly format in the Tibetan and Himalayan Historical & Cultural Geography Portal, and in more accessible formats in the Tibetan Geotourism Portal. The former serves scholars, teachers, students, and others with a scholarly bent, while the latter serves visitors to the region while promoting tourism that benefits local communities and features immersive engagement. Resources include maps, images, audio-video, essays, and place studies.The technical core is GIS (Geographical Information Systems), which documents places by latitude and longitude, and thus allows for analysis of places in relationship to other associated data, the visualization of relationships with maps, and the indexing of large pools of resources by place (images, audio-video, bibliographies, texts). We are using GIS to document the contemporary situation of the region and its history. THL uses dynamic GIS-mapping integrated with their Place Dictionary as well as an archive of static historical and contemporary maps. THL's comprehensive online interactive map of the entire region allows you to zoom in and out to explore the world, while turning various layers off and on, and being able to click sites in the region to access descriptions and associated resources from the Place Dictionary. You can also change the language of toponyms, including Tibetan, Chinese, and Nepali. This dynamic resource is accompanied by our map collections, which offer a variety of static maps that are both scanned historical maps and custom made maps.Read more: http://www.thlib.org/places/maps/#ixzz3Ks6no5Nn
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