Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I don't know if I should be counted towards any quorum of any kind -- I'm not a developer, just someone interested in this topic and very happy to see it being pursued. Specifically, I had an idea a while ago about creating political maps for each year throughout history. So you could look at a political map of Europe around 343 BC and then move a dial towards the same area around 323 BC and see how the political map changed as Alexander the Great went on his conquerin' spree. I'm a big history fan, and more of a visual learner, so something like this would really help me solidify a lot of world history.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Granted, creating political maps for every year in history is a Herculean task. So I was hoping someone could develop an interface that would allow non-tech-savvy people like myself to make such changes. You know, something where I could go to the map of 343 BC and draw and then manipulate a boundary like you do in Photoshop. Maybe I could then put in some placemarks for specific events that then link to Wikipedia articles about them. Then when I'm done I could hit upload and see the changes on a master set of maps that anyone can work on. If it were that easy you could maybe get a lot of history buffs to do the work for free, a la Wikipedia. Teachers in particular might be interested because the end product could really help in teaching history.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've been reading the emails to try to figure out if something like this is in the works, but I admit, there's so much that's over my head that I just get lost. Does any of what I'm describing sound like anyone's plans?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks so much for reading this,</div><div><br></div><div>Ed Dykhuizen</div><div><br></div><div>(And I'm including my friend Joe on this -- hope you don't mind!)</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Burrito Justice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:burritojustice@oram.com" target="_blank">burritojustice@oram.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
OHM ++<br>
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On Feb 28, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Brad Thompson <<a href="mailto:brad@pastmapper.com" target="_blank">brad@pastmapper.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> OHM +1<br>
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> Do we have quorum yet?<br>
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> :)<br>
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