This project is so cool! Hats off to ya for such a unique idea.
Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
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#42I think much more lines should go to Moscow. At least from such places as Crimea. But I see you covered only western/euro-american institutions.
Russia still has a huge portion of the Nazi stolen artifacts but I have no idea how many are in public museums.
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#43This is fantastic visualization! I couldn't figure out from the UI but is there a way to filter the map? Say, I only want to see things going out of Cusco or I only want to see where things end up in Berlin? It would also be nice to have some directionality to the lines to indicate source and destination, perhaps a colour or lightness gradient or something.
Thanks! You actually can filter by source already, search lets you filter arcs by place/site. Destination filtering technically works too, via Collections, but that only makes sense while there are a handful, once it’s hundreds it’ll need its own proper destination filter. Good call on the color/gradient distinction for source vs. destination on the arcs too, that’s worth trying.
Not sure what I'm missing. If I click on Madagascar in the left box, the map zooms into Madagascar, but all the other arcs are still visible and not filtered out.
Re: Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! You actually can filter by source already, search lets you filter arcs by place/site. Destination filtering technically works too, via Collections, but that only makes sense while there are a handful, once it’s hundreds it’ll need its own proper destination filter. Good call on the color/gradient distinction for source vs. destination on the arcs too, that’s worth trying.
Not sure what I'm missing. If I click on Madagascar in the left box, the map zooms into Madagascar, but all the other arcs are still visible and not filtered out.
You can use the search button (left panel top) to filter arcs by place/collection. The left panel functions more like map navigation, while the search/command palette is a separate mode.
Re: Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
#45What counts as displaced ?
stolen and removed from the country before they could destroy it, then later people can complain about someone else having it because surviving artifacts in the origin country are rare. the moral outrage is proportional to the ever-increasing rarity.