Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History • Hacker News Board

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by carderne » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 12:26 PM UTC

There's a great big coffee table version of this [1]. As always though, I wish there were a way to show not just which "nation" ostensibly controlled an area, but what _people_ were actually there: what languages, cultures and gods actually held sway in each of these areas and times.

[1] https://www.dk.com/uk/book/9780241226148-history-of-the-worl...

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 12:27 PM UTC

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Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by MapNavTom » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 12:28 PM UTC

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Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by MiklerGM » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 12:29 PM UTC

Cool, I wish the project all the best! Making an interactive historical atlas is a great idea but the path is not an easy one.

We did a similar project and closed it about 5 years ago https://maps.chron.ist/

Had multiple iterations, and put a lot of effort into finding and drawing the maps. Later we found some support from the community and they promised to provide us with verifiable and trusted map sources...

The source code is available here https://github.com/chronhq

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by PerseusLynx » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 12:33 PM UTC

I have been looking for a map like this for a while and even considered creating one. Really nice job! I cannot verify the actual historical accuracy but it looks great.

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by loughnane » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 12:46 PM UTC

Love it. One suggestion is to have cities only appear when they were founded. Looking at Ireland it felt off seeing limerick Dublin and cork in 4000 bc.

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by egorfine » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 12:50 PM UTC

GiorgioG wrote: post #16

All the nitpicking here is insane. Can we all just appreciate the work that went into this?

Imagine you are holding a very, very nicely done history textbook. Excellent illustrations made with love, excellent typeface, high quality print, packaging, etc.

Except it's all totally wrong.

Could you appreciate the work that went into this?

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by jl6 » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 12:55 PM UTC

How cool would it be if the timeline could switch to a log scale and show prehistory too, with morphing continent shapes?

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by Bengalilol » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 12:56 PM UTC

Amazing initiative ! I see that recent 'changes' to some territories are not taken into account. I bet this is because you take the history path with global consensus. Great work !

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by nashashmi » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 12:57 PM UTC

jl6 wrote: post #38

How cool would it be if the timeline could switch to a log scale and show prehistory too, with morphing continent shapes?

Prehistory is less certain. And doesn’t fall in category of history of people which I think this map is meant to show.