š Ports are now (optionally) shown on the eRutter to help with route picking.
š¤ They're currently fetched from @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social, but this would be a great use case for a @whgazetteer.org temporal API to filter out modern ports and highlight ancient ones.
š Recent updates to the WHG user interface give faster loading and globe visualisations.
Image: Indigenous Place Names in North America, a WHG Place Collection at doi.org/10.60681/whg...
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Want to map your dataset like this? Our free Reconciliation API matches your place-names phonetically against over 67 million historical & modern toponyms from GeoNames, Wikidata, Pleiades, Getty TGN & more, and returns coordinates. Works with OpenRefine too!š
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š§ Building a lightweight sea-routing graph for historical GIS & DH use cases beyond simple port-to-port hops. Edges are weighted for ~5km coastal preference. Aiming for serverless exploration of connectivity in historical maritime trade. āļø #MaritimeHistory #HistoricalGIS #DigitalHumanities
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šŖHistorical Sea Routing is now much quicker to load, reload, and compute seasonally-plausible sailing routes, thanks to some behind-the-scenes browser magic. Find a 6500-mile return trip in under 1 second!
š Do you have historical voyage data which might help with calibration? [1/3]
Companion to the Datini Letters map: a new Voyages explorer for the Melis archive. 3,393 Mediterranean ship records (1379ā1492). Arcs coloured by predominant vessel type per route. Ports geocoded via @whgazetteer.org.
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The University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI) is currently accepting applications for a full-time Research Associate to act as the Digital Data Specialist. The selecte...
šµļøWe're transcribing and geocoding all 7 volumes of "A Gazetteer of the World" (1856), a monumental work edited anonymously by "a Member of the Royal Geographical Society" @rgs.org - can anyone suggest who that might have been, and why they might not have been named?
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