Digital Map of the Roman Empire

The Romans: From Village to Empire (2nd edition; 2011) A second edition of Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, Noel Lenski, Richard J. A. Des cartes sur vos sites : quelques bonnes pratiques Le numérique n’a pas remis en question la puissance des cartes comme support de représentation de l’information géographique ou géolocalisée. Au contraire, avec l’interactivité, il leur a apporté une dimension supplémentaire qui a encore accru leur intérêt et fait apparaître de nouveaux usages. Sur le Web, les cartes sont maintenant des éléments communs de l’expérience de navigation, rencontrées dans une multitude de contextes. Les cartographes considèrent comme vertus cardinales la lisibilité et la pertinence de l’information portée par une carte, sans négliger son aspect esthétique.

Pomponius Mela Reconstruction of Pomponius Mela's world map by Konrad Miller (1898). Pomponius Mela's description of Europe (F. Nansen, 1911). Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He was born in Tingentera (now Algeciras) and died c.

Crumpled city - palomar They are the lightest maps in the world: indestructible, soft and waterproof, they can be crumpled, squashed and crushed into a ball. What’s more, the more battered they are, the better they look. A contemporary reinvention of the most basic travel tool: Roman Empire GDP Per Capita Map Shows That Romans Were Poorer Than Any Country in 2015 Map by the NEP-HIS Blog, found via Reddit. What a difference 2,000 years makes. The map above shows the GDP per capita in 14AD of the various provinces of the Roman Empire in 1990 PPP Dollars.

GeoSilk GeoSilk is a set of icons designed for open source web-based geospatial software. The set is an extension of Mark James's Silk icons—probably the most widely used set of icons on the web—that incorporates metaphors for spatial constructs defined by Jody Garnett's uDig icons. Take a gander at the full set or download it from the SVN repository. GeoSilk is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, meaning anyone may use it for any purpose and make any changes they like. Read GeoSilk: Icons for a shared geoweb on the OpenGeo Blog to learn more about this icon set. Feel free to leave comments for icon requests or other questions.

An Incredibly Detailed Map of the Roman Empire At Its Height in 211AD Map created by Sardis Verlag The map above is one of the most detailed and interesting maps of the Roman Empire you’ll likely find online. It shows what the Empire looked like in 211 CE (aka 211 AD) at the end of the reign of Septimius Severus. There lots of really cool things to point out about the map itself. La carte nationale: Collection historique de la carte topographique Historical Topographic Maps - Preserving the Past In 2009, USGS began the release of a new generation of topographic maps (US Topo) in electronic form, and in 2011, complemented them with the release of high-resolution scans of more than 178,000 historical topographic maps of the United States. The topographic map remains an indispensable tool for everyday use in government, science, industry, land management planning, and recreation. Historic maps are snapshots of the nation's physical and cultural features at a particular time. Maps of the same area can show how an area looked before development and provide a detailed view of changes over time.

Roman Roads – Sasha Trubetskoy If you think this would make a cool poster, follow this link and send me a few bucks. I’ll email you a crisp PDF for printing! It’s finally done. A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD. Creating this required far more research than I had expected—there is not a single consistent source that was particularly good for this. Mapping Stereotypes by alphadesigner Get your copy on: Amazon US / Amazon UK / Amazon DE / Amazon FR / Amazon IT / Amazon ES / Amazon Canada / Amazon Japan / Amazon India / Amazon Brazil Atlas of Prejudice: The Complete Stereotype Map Collection MyGPSFiles Select a command to get help. Then, click apply to execute it. If one track is selected, the command will apply only to this track. Else the command will apply to all tracks. Duplicate the track.