Knowledge Commons | Open-source historical mapping | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/ Activity feed for the group, Open-source historical mapping. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ebd2c7c0d73c523599c7bcff43a1f3e3 Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839769/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:25:39 -0400 Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]

]]> 0 85cb8f3699929eff56a9b9d5d217b9ad Nicky Agate started the topic Job: Mapping and Geospatial Project Specialist (Humanities Focus) in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/job-mapping-and-geospatial-project-specialist-humanities-focus/ Wed, 11 May 2022 13:21:36 -0400 The Research Data and Digital Scholarship team at University of Pennsylvania Libraries is looking for a mapping geospatial project specialist to work primarily on digital humanities and digital scholarship projects, as well as to work with the existing librarian for mapping and geospatial data to foster a mapping-curious community on campus. Sound…[Read more]

]]> 7690e16bae29695837ce69655446a9fd Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools in the group Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758316/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:25:22 -0500 This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a0e85604a530e5cef2c85fa74b6981b Ceyda Elgul deposited Lives in Turkish: A Database of Biography in the group Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1709587/ Thu, 24 Sep 2020 02:24:55 -0400 "Lives in Turkish" is an ongoing research project held at Boğaziçi University Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies. We trace the journey of life-writing in Turkish, collect metadata and visuals about biographical publications and biography subjects introduced to the Turkish reader since the early 1800s. Our aim is to propose a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cb4c9817a9e8a1092df08321807d1ee Kalle Westerling started the topic Opportunity: Digital Humanities Research Institute, June 15–24, 2020 in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/opportunity-digital-humanities-research-institute-june-15-24-2020-5/ Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:04:04 -0500 Do you want to become a DHRI Community Leader?
Apply now and join us from June 15-24, 2020.
You are invited to apply for the second Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), which will take place at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This ten-day institute will introduce participants to core digital humanities skills, and help…[Read more]

]]> 10f26aadfb74088e88cec1ba939508c7 Roger Gillis deposited Historic Nova Scotia: Briding the Gap with Digital Storytelling in the group Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665198/ Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:25:35 -0400 Historic Nova Scotia is a digital humanities and public history project that aims to bring community histories to life online (https://historicnovascotia.ca/). This paper will explore how collaborative, digital-storytelling can help bridge the gap between heritage theory and practice. We will provide an overview of the project followed by specific…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa697f2bcc8dc880b1ea13f1068bc020 Ferran Escriva-Llorca deposited CFP: The Mediterranean: Migrant Sounds in the group Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1638081/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:25:33 -0400 On June 17, 2018, the Aquarius, a boat carrying refugees, docked in Valencia. The wave of solidarity that ran through the city and neighboring towns in response to this arrival was intermingled with ignorance of a phenomenon—migration across the Mediterranean Sea—that has been a historical constant, and which indexes both the aspirations and fea…[Read more]

]]> 0 277bd3628835e1d8d330df04aff40e32 Dominik Hagmann deposited 3D-Dokumentation des sog. Hexenturms von Schloss Ulmerfeld, NÖ in the group Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601128/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 04:13:06 -0500 Paper about the archaeological documentation of the so-called Hexenturm of Ulmerfeld Castle using MAP (mast aerial photography) as well as IBM (image based modeling) and the combined application of commercial as well as open source software image processing software.

]]> 0 7f0f52397ef59732481fd7248c42eaa0 Jasper van Putten started the topic Invitation to submit projects to be featured on Mapping to Print website in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/invitation-to-submit-projects-to-be-featured-on-mapping-to-print-website/ Mon, 29 May 2017 18:20:28 -0400 Dear all,

I would like to invite scholars 'who map print' to send me links to their online projects and be featured—with link, brief description, and screen shot—on this website: Mapping Print http://openprintstudio.com/wiki/doku.php/mapping_print_project

The Mapping Print project brings together online projects that trace the history of print…[Read more]

]]> 9dc205919d802eaa418d0a2cbb4b09a5 Colin Greenstreet started the topic Maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/maphackathon-zotero-bibliographical-group/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:47:50 -0500 The maphackathon organising group have created a maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group. The group library is available for all to view, but to contribute and to edit you will need to be an invited member.

We would be delighted if members of the Humanities Commons Open-Source Historical Mapping group, the Digital Humanists group and the Linked…[Read more]

]]> 3a4cddd66eacd6af68b14b0a0d83b96d Colin Greenstreet started the topic Mapping the sounds of the Early Modern Thames shoreline - Treadmill cranes in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/mapping-the-sounds-of-the-early-modern-thames-shoreline-treadmill-cranes/ Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:42:50 -0500 The Agas map of London, published c. 1633, but showing London c. 1550-1560, shows a series of cranes at different places along the Thames north shore, both above and below London Bridge. These cranes appear to be treadmill cranes. An example of a large treadmill crane, powered by four men in a treadmill at one side of the crane, can be seen in…[Read more]

]]> ec64d5579fd739c93efa27827e6500b0 Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Use of pinterest as a discovery tool for map and image mapping sources in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/use-of-pinterest-as-a-discovery-tool-for-map-and-image-mapping-sources/#post-844 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:11:31 -0500 Six days since launching the Thamesshore line #maphackathon Pinterest board we have 353 Pins and 10 Followers

images of Thames and Thames shoreline C17th to early C20th between London Bridge and Woolwich
images of Thames north and south shore parishes between London Bridge and Woolwich

 

Major sources of pins so far are:

ballastquay.com…[Read more]

]]> e6b2c9ee375152d4df49a3cc6fc5d50b John Levin started the topic High Quality 17th and 18th century maps of London in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/high-quality-17th-and-18th-century-maps-of-london/ Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:24:32 -0500 This is a list of high quality, freely downloadable, freely reuseable maps of seventeenth and eighteenth century London, suitable for georectification and for use in the map hackathon. I will be working on geo-rectifying these over Christmas, but doubt I will get all done.

An exact survey of ... London after the Great Fire

From the New York…[Read more]

]]> 73d2af51bdfc10746981d81ea9efcb39 Colin Greenstreet started the topic Use of pinterest as a discovery tool for map and image mapping sources in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/use-of-pinterest-as-a-discovery-tool-for-map-and-image-mapping-sources/ Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:24:16 -0500 I kicked off a MarineLives experiment today by creating a #maphackathon pinterest board, and publicising it on Twitter. It will be interesting to see if it acquires any followers and develops a creative life or is just a "good idea" which goes nowhere. As of 12.21 Wedneday December 7th 2016 it had eleven pins (all seeded by me) and had acquired…[Read more]

]]> aab49784d52b86122ca7bd9079a0be9f Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/spatial-experiment-at-maphackathon-feb-1011-2017-tbc/#post-766 Tue, 06 Dec 2016 14:02:39 -0500 Provisional goal of #maphackathon spatial experiment:

 

To build a river-centric analysis of commercial life in C17th and early C18th London and surrounds, using diverse text, numeric, visual and map data sources supplied or hacked by #maphackathon attendees. Visualisations to combine topographical, occupational and event/movements data; c…[Read more]

]]> 369103e969003343acaf305cfdb0145c Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic CFP of potential interest to the group in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/cfp-of-potential-interest-to-the-group/#post-763 Tue, 06 Dec 2016 13:37:08 -0500 Posted the CFP to @marinelivesorg Twitter account. As of 13.34 UK time, Tues Dec 6th 2016 seven Retweets

]]> c510d378fbccd057acb4d40583c922ea Colin Greenstreet started the topic Linked open data from MarineLives semantic media wiki for experimentation in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/linked-open-data-from-marinelives-semantic-media-wiki-for-experimentation/ Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:26:24 -0500 The MarineLives project uses a semantic media wiki as its platform to view and transcribe manuscript images, to annotate transcribed pages, and to create semantic biographies. All semantic biographies contain geographical location data. For example, semantic biographies for the hamlet of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney in the county of Middlesex…[Read more]

]]> ec342a161a1e5a8b3a58629be870f767 Nicky Agate started the topic CFP of potential interest to the group in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/cfp-of-potential-interest-to-the-group/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:09:20 -0500 Coordinates: Digital Mapping and 18th C Visual, Material, and Built Cultures
Art history’s digital turn has been stimulated by the possibilities of spatial research.  Spurred by the collection, preservation, and distribution of art historical data in digital space—practices that have both collapsed and expanded our own discursive geog…[Read more]

]]> a96fa48c317029f9d48540de181f415e Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/spatial-experiment-at-maphackathon-feb-1011-2017-tbc/#post-738 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:14:58 -0500 Access to full set of Tweets as we shape the #maphackathon

 

Twitter is a powerful tool and we are using it actively to shape the proposed #maphackathon

 

Click here to access the top #maphackathon tweets and images.

 

Click here to access the full set of #maphackathon tweets and images.

]]> d33e08d35e6ba4270ec090bd26afbd6c Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/spatial-experiment-at-maphackathon-feb-1011-2017-tbc/#post-736 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:09:17 -0500 #maphackathon datasets on Google drive

 

We have manually extracted data on English ship movements from witness statements in the English High Court of Admiralty in the 1650s. These data include port departure and arrival dates, allowing computation and visualisation of travel times, dwell times and routes. Data cover ship voyages between 1645…[Read more]

]]> 5ee34de8d94112f471648f22e4994e9c Colin Greenstreet started the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/spatial-experiment-at-maphackathon-feb-1011-2017-tbc/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 11:42:41 -0500 We are organising a Friday evening and Saturday morning of spatial experiment #maphackathon in central London on Friday February 10th and Saturday February 11th 2017. We encourage all readers and members of this group to contribute their ideas and to help shape the event.

 

Datasets will be made available in advance by @marinelivesorg and @cgspen…[Read more]

]]> 918c47968baf22f171e95199049ab478 John Levin replied to the topic The use of QGIS in historical mapping in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/the-use-of-qgis-in-historical-mapping/#post-692 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 10:46:47 -0500 See also the QGis tutorials at the Programming Historian:

http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/

 

]]> d8190059a5a03553e6d03bfa553b2bb7 Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic How can we find and map C17th Thames shore warehouses? in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/how-can-we-find-and-map-c17th-thames-shore-warehouses/#post-607 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 06:12:41 -0500 Twitter exchange with Dr Craig Spence, Saturday December 3rd 2016

 

Post @Marinelivesorg:  Missing Thames infrastructure - Ideas for datamining text/archaeological records to find & map C17th Thames warehouses? #maphackathon

 

 

Post @cgspence: @Marinelivesorg my book 'London in the 1690s' incs map locating taxed warehouses vaults etc. 4s A…[Read more]

]]> 3fa8fb57e473f248359c37d8c1cc2e4a Colin Greenstreet started the topic Where were the twelve mooring chains in the River Thames? in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/where-were-the-twelve-mooring-chains-in-the-river-thames/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:58:54 -0500 Primary sources

E 367/5903. Burrell: Mooring chains and dues in the river Thames between Bugby's Hole and London Bridge. Date: 22 Geo.III.

 

Report from the committee appointed to enquire into the best mode of providing sufficeint accomodation for the increased trade and shipping of the port of London (London, 1796)

 

"Appendix…[Read more]

]]> 05ceb3e12406650c8fc141ddae371503 Colin Greenstreet started the topic How can we find and map C17th Thames shore warehouses? in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/how-can-we-find-and-map-c17th-thames-shore-warehouses/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 18:02:56 -0500 What text and archaeological records exist which we could make use of in constructing a map of mid-C17th Thames shoreline warehousing?

 

No comprehensive study or map have been made of C17th warehousing and other commercial marine infrastructure on the north and south shores of the Thames from London Bridge down to Woolwich.  Morgan's 1682 map…[Read more]

]]> 9116e03d57777cca3b9d6609dd9bafbb Colin Greenstreet started the topic The use of QGIS in historical mapping in the discussion Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/groups/open-source-historical-mapping/forum/topic/the-use-of-qgis-in-historical-mapping/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 17:16:20 -0500 QGIS is a free open-source Geographical Information System (GIS). It has been developed and is supported by the OSGeo Foundation. The latest version is QGIS 2.18 Las Palmas. It is available for download here.

 

The development and release history of the system is described in a wikipedia article on QGIS.

 

The product runs on Linux, Mac OSX,…[Read more]

]]> 5878d1318831acbc6ed11482028336f9 Colin Greenstreet created the doc Patterns in the Court: Mapping the mid-C17th Thames shoreline in the group Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554297/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 15:29:23 -0500 fc3fd85eea17ed1380f07db651d9d446 Colin Greenstreet created the group Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554280/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 14:42:33 -0500 0