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Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by Fauntleroy »

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…

This is a well implemented and remarkably responsive version of what I've always wanted--a map that travels throughout all of human history. I'm so happy to see this today, honestly.

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by oldmapgallery »

klokan wrote: post #66
egorfine wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! It's done beautifully but there are some... inconsistencies. Is there a process to provide feedback and correct errors on the map?

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

Great freaking work. Have been waiting for someone to do something like this for years.

We also would have some inputs on some of the short-lived territories in the U.S. West that were important and had a role in later regional development. How much do we need to substantiate the addition of a specific territory to the project? Aside from the "lost state of Franklin", there were territories like Jefferson/Colona, Huron, Lincoln, Shoshone and a number of others that pop up from the late 1850's up to the 1890's.

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by strogonoff »

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...

I would love if historical maps at least qualified what they show and what they don’t show.

In a sense, all of the countries today have more in common with each other than with a given unique culture they subsumed (or in some cases annihilated). Putting all focus on separating the former and largely ignoring the latter is a narrow take on the meaning of “history”, and a more specific term (perhaps “political history”) seems more fitting.

For example, Russia did not naturally expand into a vacant spot eastward, despite resources such as Timemap.org perpetuating an image of peacefully walking into vast empty lands rather than annexing with a heavy dose of brutality, deadly smallpox, forced conversion to Christianity, and just plain old mass murder the territories where a range of cultures (Yakuts, Nenets, etc.) lived for centuries prior to that (or to Russia actually existing as such for that matter).

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by iandanforth »

I like the idea, but it seems like such a cliche how poorly represented native peoples are in this project. If you're a historian and cartographer is there a more obvious failure that everyone knows about? It's like storing your passwords in plaintext for services, so many people have made the error, and its so famous that making this error again seems like deliberate incompetence.

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by phist_mcgee »

robin_reala wrote: post #21
k1kingy wrote: post #10

For New Zealand in particular, the flags that are used through history are wildly inaccurate. It's missing the initial flag used before the Union Jack was officially adopted. And the signalling flag that is on there between 1907-1947 was never an official flag and was only kind of used between 1899-1902 before the current flag (Union Jack in the corner with the red Southern Cross stars on a blue background) was adopt…

Apparently nothing happened in Australia before 1788 too.

I'm mad that Victoria isn't considered independent of New South Wales for 50 years before federation.

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by seb1204 »

singularity2001 wrote: post #84
egorfine wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! It's done beautifully but there are some... inconsistencies. Is there a process to provide feedback and correct errors on the map?

"inconsistencies" that's a friendly way to put it. The data is severely lacking for the world before the bronze age collapse. Upside: it can only get better over time.

Indeed, any contribution to https://www.openhistoricalmap.org is welcome.

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by seb1204 »

klokan wrote: post #66
egorfine wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! It's done beautifully but there are some... inconsistencies. Is there a process to provide feedback and correct errors on the map?

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

Will such feedback lead to improvements in your own hidden data or https://www.openhistoricalmap.org or both?

Re: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

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Post by stogot »

WillAdams wrote: post #44
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...

Arguably the ultimate commentary on that aspect of history and politics is to take T.E. Lawrence's original map showing his suggestion for dividing up the Middle East based on linguistic groupings and factional differences and religious factions and interactions and to then overlay it with any more recent map.

Do you have a link?
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