historical political boundaries

[Tyler Mitchell]

Thanks Peter.
Had a look also at the GLC Great Lakes Map Explorer - very nice!  Is that yours too?


http://mds.glc.org/carol/mapper.php

Tyler

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Giencke <pgiencke at GLC.ORG>
Date: Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:05 am
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] historical political boundaries

> All,
> 
> This might be somewhat off-topic, but the National Historical GIS 
> Project(nhgis.org) is doing this for historical (as far back as 
> 1790) US
> political/census boundaries (state, county, tract level). Much of 
> this data
> is already available (boundary data -
> http://www.nhgis.org/data/getBoundaryfiles.shtml and aggregate 
> data -
> http://www.nhgis.org/data/getData.shtml).
> 
> -pete
> 
> PS the boundary application is my own :)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:51 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] historical political boundaries
> 
> Great idea Joe.  I'd love to find some keen students who want to learn
> mapping or love history and have them scrape some boundaries out 
> of historic
> map images, e.g. from 
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html
> Tyler
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Bussell <joe at OTSYS.COM>
> Date: Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:02 am
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] historical political boundaries
> 
> > Just for fun I was toying with the idea of playing history back 
> for my 
> > son by demonstrating the changing political boundaries.  Are 
> there 
> > data
> > sets available for political boundaries for the ancient world?   
> > How
> > about pre-WW1 or WW-2?  How about military buildup like the 
> position 
> > of Napoleon's army over time, or the extent of Atilla's military 
> reach 
> > over time.  Or Phiilip of Macedon and later his son Alexander's 
> land 
> > acquisitions, and the later breakup as the satraps and princes 
> > struggled for primacy and the resulting divided principalities.
> > 
> > Can you imagine watching the world's history playing out in an 
> > interactive map application?  This would be very cool.
> > 
> > Has this been done before professionally or privately?
> > 
> > Cordially,
> > 
> > Joe Bussell
> > 
>