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Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by concordDance »

sofixa wrote: post #86
carderne wrote: post #31

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...

> 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 That is pretty hard to do, because nationalism wasn't really a thing before the 19th century in Europe. So how do you identify 18th century people living in Wallonia under the HRE or Nethe…

One thing you could do is use different axes. A two-color pattern where the pattern would be religion, the hue of one color language, the other family structure, etc.

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Post by crotobloste »

The historical criteria for Spain seems dubious. It posits the ahistorical existence of a "Kingdom of Spain" from 1479 on, when this political entity didn't come to be until several centuries later (despite some monarchs using the title "King of Spain". For that matter, the current Spanish King holds the title of "King of Jerusalem", but to my awareness no Kingdom of Jerusalem actually exists today).

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Post by speleding »

klokan wrote: post #59

Hi 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…

Nice! Small nitpick, as a Dutchie: we changed the shape of our country quite a bit over time by reclaiming sea. The map of the area now occupied by The Netherlands was very different two thousand years ago from what your site shows.

(And this had geopolitical consequences, e.g., the invading Spanish could not cross some of the bodies of water present in the sixteen hundreds that are not there now.)

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by niea_11 »

crotobloste wrote: post #152

The historical criteria for Spain seems dubious. It posits the ahistorical existence of a "Kingdom of Spain" from 1479 on, when this political entity didn't come to be until several centuries later (despite some monarchs using the title "King of Spain". For that matter, the current Spanish King holds the title of "King of Jerusalem", but to my awareness no Kingdom of Jerusalem actually exists today).

The same thing for Morocco, it started being called Kingdom of Morocco only after the end of the french protectorate in the 50s.

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Post by pauldelany »

leobg wrote: post #122
WillAdams wrote: post #46

It is surprisingly difficult to study history chronologically when one gets beyond the scope of a given text/item due to overlap. When I was still reading to my children in the evening, after running through all the standard texts (Narnia, _The Hobbit_, _The Lord of the Rings_, Susan Cooper's _The Dark is Rising_, H. Beam Piper's _Little Fuzzy_, &c.), I decided I wanted to read biographies to them, in chronological o…

Asimov was a machine. What did he not write about? Materials, space, science & exploration, physics, the Bible. They say Goethe was one of the last people in history who was still able to understand everything that was known up to then. It seems to me Asimov was as close to that as possible 200 years later. Anyone here know a writer of our time who can match that?

Could be wrong, but think it was Gauss, not Goethe.

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by theelous3 »

What stage of "map completion" is this at? Seems overall to be very sparse on information. It makes claims like

> Explore over 500k maps down to streets

If I look at the UK - arguably the cartography champions of all time, there is nothing though the years other than the shadow of current day. There is basically nothing on Ireland at any point, even though it's a very well documented history rich area.

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by blankton »

Great Project. I am very thankful for this useful tool.

Small "bug"/Different behaviour than expected I found: I you move the slider with Arrow-Keys, you are not able to move it beyond the currently visible time frame. If the value on the far right ist 750 BC and you press the Key repeatedly it will, at some point jump back around 30 years.

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by wongarsu »

speleding wrote: post #153
klokan wrote: post #59

Hi 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…

Nice! Small nitpick, as a Dutchie: we changed the shape of our country quite a bit over time by reclaiming sea. The map of the area now occupied by The Netherlands was very different two thousand years ago from what your site shows. (And this had geopolitical consequences, e.g., the invading Spanish could not cross some of the bodies of water present in the sixteen hundreds that are not there now.)

The German coast also had notable man-made changes, though far less extreme than what the Dutch did
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