[OHM] [Historic] Historic Digest, Vol 7, Issue 9

[Ed Dykhuizen]

Hi all,

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.

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.

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?

Thanks so much for reading this,

Ed Dykhuizen

(And I'm including my friend Joe on this -- hope you don't mind!)

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Burrito Justice <burritojustice at oram.com>wrote:

> OHM ++
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> On Feb 28, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Brad Thompson <brad at pastmapper.com> wrote:
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> > OHM +1
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> > Do we have quorum yet?
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> > :)
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