#historicmaps — Public Fediverse posts

Mapping Medieval Africa - The Great Kingdoms of the West
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https://ubiqueags.org/the-ags-globe-mapping-medieval-africa-the-great-kingdoms-of-the-west/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-west-africa-history-facts/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-West-Africa-Nehemia-Levtzion/dp/1558763058# <-- shared link to book
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H/T #AmericanGeographicalSociety
“Medieval West Africa was dominated by three great empires - Ghana, Mali, and Songhai - that grew immensely powerful from the trans-Saharan trade routes, especially for gold and salt, fostering vibrant Islamic cultures, wealthy cities like Timbuktu, and powerful centralized governments before smaller states emerged. These empires were centers of learning, art, and distinct governance, with oral traditions preserving much of their history…”
#mapping #historicmaps #Africa #WestAfrica #Medieval #cartography #empires #kingdom #Ghana #Mali #Songhai #trading #traderoutes #Sahara #gold #salt #Timbuktu #history
@AmericanGeographicalSociety

Locating The Pā Sites From Hartley Ferrar’s Geological Maps
[spatial analysis, New Zealand]
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https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.388 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geology #historicmaps #Māori #Maori #defensive #Pa #Pā #NewZealand #fort #Northland #NewZealand #LiDAR #remotesensing #model #modeling #geologist #HartleyFerrar #archaeology #spatialanalysis #remotesensing #earthobservation #georeferencing #digitisation #machinelearning #AI #imagery #survey #cartography #FirstNation #indigenous #culture #landscape #heritage #iwi #hapū #collaboration #legacydata #heritagemanagement

Digital Elevation Models, Old Maps, And Cultural Heritage—Geospatial Assets For The Digital Humanities
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1507385 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #hydrography #remotesensing #earthobservation #landscape #humanimpacts #landforms #DEM #elevation #LiDAR #oldmaps #historicmaps #culture #society #infrastructure #community #change #DigitalHumanities #geography #cartography #environment #culturalheritage #Nederlands #LingeRiver #engineering #precisionmapping #understanding #history

#Oxford residents & alumni, what are your favourite #14thCentury aspects of your #HistoricCity? Any quirks to highlight after seeing the #HistoricTownsTrust #map, or the new overlay from #MedievalMurderMaps? Ghostly, evocative, thoughts on green space & a #15MinuteCity?
https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/maps/oxford/?t=%5B%22homicide%22%5D

#medieval #maps #HistoricMaps @trishgreenhalgh @HLaehnemann @OxMedStud @dancingtreefrog @medievodons @histodons

Ancient Courses - Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps Of The Mississippi River (1944)
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https://kottke.org/19/06/the-marvelous-mississippi-river-meander-maps <-- shared blog post
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[Daniel Coe has done and continues to make amazing hydrographic cartography in this regard, see image attached]
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“[T]housands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 years ago, and even back to before humans, when mammoths, camels, dire wolves, and giant beavers roamed the land and gazed upon the river…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #hydrology #mississippi #cartography #hydrology #water #river #meanders #representation #map #maps #historicmaps #banks #art #artwork #gischat #HaroldFisk
#USACE #fluvial
@kottke