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We'll release our usual "Last Week" summary blog post on Monday, but meantime here's the first fruits of what's likely to be a long, slow project: completing and refining Barrington Atlas coverage in North Africa. In the last few days, @serviliusahala has reviewed and published new and updated records I prepared for 18 places in modern Algeria, mostly north and east of modern Bordj Bou Arreridjj: https://pleiades.stoa.org/search?Cites=%22BAtlas+31+%22&created%3Alist%3Adate=2025%2F05%2F23&created_usage=range%3Amin&portal_type%3Alist=Place&review_state%3Alist=published

Many of these are unexcavated and/or heavily spoliated sites that were cataloged by Stéphane Gsell in the *Atlas Archéologique de l’Algérie* (Algiers, Paris: 1911) with only then-modern or no associated toponymy. They were subsequently added to the relevant Barrington Atlas maps without labels or individual directory entries... 1/?

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A map of a portion of modern Algeria depicting the landscape using shaded relief and labeling a few key settlements, rivers, and modern roads including Bordj Bou Arreridjj (shown in the lower left quadrant of the map). Eighteen orange circles depicting Pleiades places are scattered across the map, which runs northward to modern Amizour and eastward past modern Aokas. A scale bar on the map reads "10 km" which permits the sited viewer to estimate that the area covered by the map is about 80 kilometers east-to-west and 120 kilometers north-to-south.

Pleiades Datasets 4.1 has been released.

Get the official distribution: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15540082

Version 4.1 - 28 May 2025: 41,480 place resources

Since release 4.0.1 of pleiades.datasets on 6 February 2025, the Pleiades gazetteer published 287 new and 2,757 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Sarah Bond, Catherine Bouras, Anne Chen, Birgit Christiansen, Matthew Clark, Stefano Costa, Anthony Durham, Tom Elliott, Margherita Fantoli, E.W.B. Fentress, Güner Girgin, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Sean Manning, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, Jamie Novotny, Gethin Rees, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, Nicolas Souchon, Néhémie Strupler, Richard Talbert, Clifflena Tiah, and Scott Vanderbilt. As a result, this release provides documentation for 41,480 place resources.

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@ShionAmasato Love this example of finding information on old buildings and using OpenHistoricalMap as a place to store that data!

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#Frühling im botanischen Garten #Frankfurt. Auch ein Frühling für die historische Kartografie der frühen Neuzeit? Im Anschluss an das @DigiKAR Projekt treffen wir uns an der Goethe-Universität u.a. mit der Kartographie Expertin des @Leibniz_IfL ich freue mich, meinen Impulsvortrag aus hessischer Sicht zu halten und vor allem auf den Austausch und die Diskussionen #hgis #HisGIS

Start and end #dates are very important for a #HistoricalGIS project. We managed to stuff dates into more of the website’s nooks and crannies, so you always know which stage of a boundary or building’s evolution you’re looking at, or whether it’s even the one you’re looking for.

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A screenshot of the relation detail page for the PNC Center chronology relation, showing the start date of 1979 in the title next to the name, derived from the start_date tag of 1979-03-28. The two members of the chronology relation, Central Trust Center and PNC Center, have labels that indicate the date ranges as 1979 to 1988 and 1988 to present, respectively.

A screenshot of search results for “Pando” from Nominatim: Town Pando, United States, 1860 to 1884; Wood Pando, United States, 16000 BCE to present.

Last Week in Pleiades (24 February - 3 March 2025)

Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 44 new and 136 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Matthew Clark, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Nicolas Souchon and Néhémie Strupler.

A complete list of additions and changes, include general descriptions of places, change summaries, credit lines, and links to the actual gazetteer entries may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-24-february-3-march-2025

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #gazetteers #HGIS #LAWDI #LOD

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map spans west to east: Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula to the Ganges deltaand north to south: Scandinavia to the central Arabian peninsula.

Updated Pleiades "GIS package" (CSV) export derivative for 2025-03-03:

Five new connections; 12 retracted, 7 modified, and 33 new locations; 13 modified and 13 new names; 37 modified and 19 new places.

Corresponding data: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets/commit/0d9205d388fa0610891c0955ad121ce171b62416#diff-1f7dc714879d86568011fc3d0faaa92cfd4400757d660174821aace9fa45f7fc

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Updated Pleiades "GIS Package" (CSV) export derivative:

4 new and 18 updated features.

Corresponding data: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets/commit/c4895c3b9f13d1a75691788126a2f57cebb7177c

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#qgis resources repository with 28 icon collections, more than 3k icons. Special focus on #hgis All icons released as CC0/PD.
Hope this might be useful and will update my original collection when possible ;)

https://github.com/projetoalfobre/alfobre-qgis-resources

Congratulations Josh Rhodes @joshrhodes.bsky.social on releasing...

- Map census variables at street level with:
AddressGB: Geo-coded British Census Addresses, 1851-1911 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10473597

- Evaluate the results (or your own!) with
AddressGB Manual Evaluation Sample https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13770048

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#DigitalHumanities
#EconHist
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Congratulations to Josh Rhodes @joshrhodes.bsky.social‬ for his article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 now out with Historical Methods!

- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address

- link census to other spatial datasets

https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2431491

Code: https://github.com/Living-with-machines/CensusGeocoder

#OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities #EconHist #hgis

Finished my work day. Got my #QGIS resources repository working. Time for dinner. Tomorrow I'll start uploading CC0 icons selected for #HGIS #history and #archaeology projects :)

Friends don't let friends save geodata as #shapefile ✅
(http://switchfromshapefile.org)

On a related note:
A friend is looking at tracing features (mostly streets and public transportation) from old city maps (Berlin, 1920-30s) with #QGIS. Does anyone have recommendations for (semi-)automated tools?
We've already tried Bunting's AI-Tool and 'Raster Tracer' https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/raster_tracer, both with some success but not entirely satisfying...
Maybe something using #gdal?
#GIS #GISChat #HGIS

Export Updates 2024-12-18:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

1 new and 48 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

"main" branch:

8e5d3c68 - updated legacy csv
99896106 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
8322a781 - updated gis package
5a36b697 - updated data quality
no change: bibliography
no change: indexes
0365ac54 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: https://github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geojson:

e30aa408 - updated geojson and names indexes

#PleiadesGazetteer #LinkedOpenData #HGIS

Blogged: Last Week in Pleiades (9-16 December 2024)

Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 390 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Bodard, Catherine Bouras, Birgit Christiansen, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Thomas Seidler, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-9-16-december-2024

A linked list of all affected gazetteer entries, as well as summaries of changes and an overview map, are available in the blog post.

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #digitalHumanities #gazetteers #HGIS #LinkedOpenData #PleiadesGazetteer

Last Week in Pleiades (2-9 December 2024)

Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new and 275 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle and Gabriel Mckee.

A list of all additions and changes, with links to the corresponding records, is available on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-2-9-december-2024

#PleiadesGazetteer #ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazeetteers #HGIS #LinkedOpenData

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map covers most of Europe, Central and South Asia, and Africa.

Export Updates 2024-12-06:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

58 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

"main" branch:

94ebf715 - updated legacy csv
9e94a474 - updated json
093c22d6 - updated rdf/ttl
dbfe13b8 - updated gis package
854db921 - updated data quality
28541aaf - updated bibliography
1692b0ac - updated indexes
506ad28d - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: https://github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geojson:

ae5e6377 - updated geojson and names index: 47 modified features

#PleiadesGazetteer #ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS #LinkedOpenData

Today at the #eauh2024 conference I am presenting a web application for maps of Jewish settlement and discussing its function in communicating historical narratives to the public.

https://map.kehillot.eu/

#map #jewishHistory #digitalhumanities #hgis

Data infrastructure for Canada

Attractive new tool to map census data since 1951 at https://edumaps.esri.ca/census/
New polygon files for historic census data at
https://hgiscanada.usask.ca/download
And the historical census microdata are coming soon https://thecanadianpeoples.com

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #hgis #dataviz #Canada #census #glamsdons #data #database

Last week in the #PleiadesGazetteer the editorial college published 9 new and 119 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Denitsa Dzhigova, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-11-18-december-2023

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #HGIS

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