https://github.com/danvk/historymaps

Creating interactive historical maps of the world
https://github.com/danvk/historymaps

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Creating interactive historical maps of the world

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/danvk/historymaps
• Owner: danvk
• Created: 2011-11-19T22:41:49.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-06-27T13:22:45.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-08T18:17:09.053Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 4.12 MB
• Stars: 15
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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Creating interactive historical maps of the world.

To run the viewer demo:

- Install necessary libraries, e.g.

  sudo port install py27-sqlite

  sudo port install py27-pil

  sudo port install ImageMagick

- Copy over the WHM SVG files into the appropriate dir.

- Build the sqlite DB:

  ./extract_all.py

- Convert to JSON:

  ./extract_rome.py > several_countries.js

- Create image tiles:

  convert worldhistorymaps/html/Wgeo.svg -transparent white rome-bg.png

  ./tiler/subdiv.py rome-bg.png

  Note the size of the expanded image and the original (un-tiled) image size in

  map.js.

- Load the map:

  historymaps/map.html