There seems to be an obvious mistake which is that Catalonia is shown as part of Spain.
/joke
great job! :D
Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
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#112The interaction is really great and I love the premise. But it seems to be missing a huge amount of information from pre-1000BC that gives the impression nothing happened/there are no people there.
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#113Hi 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 You…
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes I'd like to report the error of Taiwan being labeled "Republic of China"
That is in dispute and depends on which party is in power, by the year. Until general elections were opened up in the late 80s, it was definitely the Republic of China.
Which party in power ever changed the constitutional name? It's always been the Republic of China.
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#115Hi 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 You…
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#116https://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! :-)
I don't see mention of OHM anywhere within TimeMap, is there something I'm missing? Is there a page about where the historical data comes from for the map?
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#117Hi 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 You…
This has been a dream project of mine too, so happy to see that it exists. One thing that I've also wanted was to be able to reason about the total timeline using the Holocene calendar[1] instead of the standard BC/BCE AD/CE timeline. It makes it easier to internalize how long ago (or how recent) certain civilizations were without having to do the wrap-around math in one's head. Would be nice to be able to maybe togg…
Or, perhaps a bit more intuitively, an option to show the timeline as "years ago".
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! Please just use the "Feedback" button on the side of the interface - after you zoom the map and select time - then you can annotate, and it gives us most relevant context to your feedback
I don't see the "Feedback" button. I'm using the Vivaldi browser (based on Chromium, I think). Most of the place names are clickable, with the notable exception of Israel (both Judah and Samariah) around 900 BC, and for Israel (the united monarchy) around 1000 BC. The mouse cursor changes shape, but nothing happens if you already have the Wikipedia panel open; if it's not already open, you get a blank panel. Broken l…
uBlock Origin hid the feedback button for me. It's possible a similar extension or built in blocking functionality in Vivaldi may be doing the same to you.
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A notable observation from a lecture which touched on linguistics I attended: >Europe was once linguistically a borderless continuum of languages which gradually transitioned from Romance languages in the south to the Germanic languages in the north. (that is a rough paraphrasing from uncertain organic memory) This a bit facetious, and greatly simplified (the actual discussion in the lecture was far more nuanced), bu…
> >Europe was once linguistically a borderless continuum of languages which gradually transitioned from Romance languages in the south to the Germanic languages in the north. Eh, not really true. Not only is that missing slavic languages, there are edge cases like Romania and Albania, which are surrounded by Slavic speakers. There's also Greece, and even more wild, Hungary which is from an entirely separate language…
Or Basque...
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
A notable observation from a lecture which touched on linguistics I attended: >Europe was once linguistically a borderless continuum of languages which gradually transitioned from Romance languages in the south to the Germanic languages in the north. (that is a rough paraphrasing from uncertain organic memory) This a bit facetious, and greatly simplified (the actual discussion in the lecture was far more nuanced), bu…
> >Europe was once linguistically a borderless continuum of languages which gradually transitioned from Romance languages in the south to the Germanic languages in the north. Eh, not really true. Not only is that missing slavic languages, there are edge cases like Romania and Albania, which are surrounded by Slavic speakers. There's also Greece, and even more wild, Hungary which is from an entirely separate language…
That (and Basque) were the complications I noted as simplified out.