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I've got a project that is trying to do just this sort of thing, check out https://retred.org https://retred.org You can go to a time and place and see exactly

• walterbell 12y ago
  Looks promising! The closest projects I've seen are http://pleiades.stoa.org/home http://pleiades.stoa.org/home for Ancient GIS open-data and an iOS App with a timeline database, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timeline-eons-free/id433352152?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timeline-eons-free/id4333521... Edit: David Rumsey's classic site has many historical maps & charts, e.g. http://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2012/3/28/timeline-maps http://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2012/3/28/timeline-maps
  • pretzel 12y ago
    That's really cool! The problem seems to be that for all these things the data isn't stored anywhere in an easily digestible format. It would be great if you could query something and procedurally generate any of these graphs.
    • walterbell 12y ago
      DBpedia appears to have historical data extracted from Wikipedia, not sure how usable it is: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1205/1205.4138.pdf http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1205/1205.4138.pdf Found a UI demo & thesis project for DBpedia GIS: http://latemar.science.unitn.it/spacetime/usecase.html http://latemar.science.unitn.it/spacetime/usecase.html & http://latemar.science.unitn.it/spacetime/FabioValsecchi-thesis.pdf http://latemar.science.unitn.it/spacetime/FabioValsecchi-the...
      • pretzel 12y ago
        That's where I've got all my initial seed data from already!
        • walterbell 12y ago
          Does that mean you've converted it into a more digestible format that others could use :)
          • pretzel 12y ago
            I have - you can checkout https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander and build it using my parser from a dbpedia dump!
• jonnykry 12y ago
  This is fantastic, but you broke my back button!