http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/mapping-early-modern-london/ A blog (mostly) about early modern culture Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:09:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/mapping-early-modern-london/#comment-307 Producing maps « Mercurius Politicus Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:24:55 +0000 http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/?p=195#comment-307 [...] April 2009 in Digital history | Tags: maps I’ve written before about mapping early modern towns, but I’ve come up with a problem which has got me a bit [...] [...] April 2009 in Digital history | Tags: maps I’ve written before about mapping early modern towns, but I’ve come up with a problem which has got me a bit [...]

]]> http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/mapping-early-modern-london/#comment-158 mercuriuspoliticus Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:29:12 +0000 http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/?p=195#comment-158 It helps if the overlay is of a relatively small area - still, it's not perfect. If you were trying to use it to properly geotag locations then it would be useless, but for the purpose of getting a sense of the physical space a particular incident took place in, it works quite well. It helps if the overlay is of a relatively small area – still, it’s not perfect. If you were trying to use it to properly geotag locations then it would be useless, but for the purpose of getting a sense of the physical space a particular incident took place in, it works quite well.

]]> http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/mapping-early-modern-london/#comment-157 Gavin Robinson Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:49:42 +0000 http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/?p=195#comment-157 This looks really impressive. I'd imagined it would be much more difficult to match 17th century maps to modern maps. This looks really impressive. I’d imagined it would be much more difficult to match 17th century maps to modern maps.

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