I spent forever trying to drag the year slider, until I realized it wasn't a slider but a text box.
Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
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#52I spent forever trying to drag the year slider, until I realized it wasn't a slider but a text box.
You can drag the red dot on the timeline.
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#53https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ is the OSM like version
The TimeMap is in fact loading the data from OpenHistoricalMap on the deep zoomlevels (streets) so if you edit OpenHistoricalMap roads and houses it will be displayed there.
See Lille for example - and play with timeline here:
https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/regions#position=13...
You will see directly how the town center has developed, fortifications, railways or highway... damn cool! :-)
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#54All 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?
Is it really "all totally wrong"?
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#55All the nitpicking here is insane. Can we all just appreciate the work that went into this?
History is by definition nitpicking. History without nits picked is called "ideology" or "myth".
Call me crazy but I've never seen 'nitpicking' in the definition of history: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/history
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#56How beautiful is this project exactly if it presents quite an inaccurate data? I'm not talking about minute details. For instance, lookup wikipedia for "Grand Duchy of Lithuania" and note the active years of that state in all its different phases. Then compare with what this map shows.
Could you give an example? Like a specific year when the map is not accurate?
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Is it really "all totally wrong"?
Not totally but I have noticed some glaring inconsistencies
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#58How beautiful is this project exactly if it presents quite an inaccurate data? I'm not talking about minute details. For instance, lookup wikipedia for "Grand Duchy of Lithuania" and note the active years of that state in all its different phases. Then compare with what this map shows.
Could you give an example? Like a specific year when the map is not accurate?
Lots of things are missing. The kingdom of Frisia (6th to 8th century CE) is completely absent.
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#59Hi HN! I’m Klokan, one of the creators of TimeMap. It’s exciting to see this project here — thank you for the interest and support!
We just launched TimeMap on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/timemap If you find what we’re building valuable, an UPVOTE there would mean a lot.
Stanford University recently hosted an event to introduce TimeMap to the world, which you can check out here:
* Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZspMtwYI98
* Event page: https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-future-of-history-disc...
The talk dives into how TimeMap was built, including our use of Linked Data, OpenHistoricalMaps, LLM pre-processing, indexing algorithms, and more. It also highlights amazing partner projects like Pelagios, TimeMachine, and our amazing partner institutions such as the David Rumsey Map Collection, British Library, ETH Zurich and many others.
TimeMap has been a dream project of mine for years — I’m thrilled to see it coming to life and would love to hear your thoughts or feedback!
For context: I’m also the founder of OpenMapTiles.org, a MapLibre.org board member, author of GDAL2Tiles, and contributor to other open-source projects. Currently, I’m serving as the CEO of MapTiler.com.
Looking forward to the discussion, and thank you for taking the time to check this out!
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#60Cool, 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 so…
Wow - have not seen this one yet. Looks great!