Re:OpenHistoricalMap: Designed to store and display map data...
by nfgusedautopart on Saturday May 14, 2022 @11:32PM
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Events are an open discussion topic. right now i personally am trying to figure out event modelling for the Battle of Antietam (Sept 1862) as there is good data available.
in the long term, likely we'll want to have a parallel database to contain event data. we're still working through this.
Re:OpenHistoricalMap: Designed to store and display map data...
by mongol on Sunday May 15, 2022 @02:25AM
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I don't think should be encoded in the map, but imagine if Wikipedia facts were encoded with time + coordinates, then a mashup could illustrate them on a map like this
Re:OpenHistoricalMap: Designed to store and display map data...
by SahAssar on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:27AM
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Wikidata does that: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151018
Will it be possible to plot historical events on the map? I'd love to see e.g. a month-by-month combined timeline+map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, or the D-Day invasion.
It would also be neat to be able to link a series of historical events into a sort of "guided tour", to make the events discoverable and put them in context.