antiquity – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:31:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg antiquity – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Conference on GIS and Ancient History https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/03/conference-on-gis-and-ancient-history/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:31:06 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1148 More]]> Mapping the Past: GIS Approaches to Ancient History, a conference hosted by the Ancient World Mapping Center (the folks behind the Barrington Atlas), takes place at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, from 7 to 9 April 2016. It’s open to the public. Here’s the full schedule. [via]

Previously: Antiquity à la Carte.

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The Ancient World Mapping Center—formerly the Classical Atlas Project, the team behind the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, the expensive atlas later reborn as an iPad app (iTunes link)—has a web-based map interface to classical/late antiquity geographic data. The original (2012) version of “Antiquity à la Carte” is kind of old school and clunky; the (2014) beta version shows a bit more promise. [via]

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