Place names can change over time, so working with historical maps can sometimes be tricky. #Gazeteers can help! ✍️ 🗺️
This lesson from Programming Historian demos working with a #gazetteer to resolve small differences across maps and #SpatialData.
#TrainingTuesday #GeoHumanities
➡️ Find out more on DARIAH Campus: https://campus.dariah.eu/resources/external/working-with-named-places-how-and-why-to-build-a-gazetteer
The Internet Archive is an invaluable resource for historians and genealogists.
Here, for example, is the 1846 Smith's Gazetteer of Canada West, which has a description of every town, township and village in Ontario at that time. May of the names have since changed.
https://archive.org/details/smithscanadianga00smit/page/n7/mode/2up
Yesterday's links:
More Crystal Frontier
https://alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/2025/03/fear-in-handful-of-dust.html
Illusions
https://wardagainstevil.com/2025/03/07/treat-illusions-as-you-would-any-other-lie-no-rolls/
Free adventures - 5e
https://olddungeonmaster.com/2025/03/07/dd-5e-adventure-at-08-the-pirate-queens-ploy-pdf-free-download/
Inspiration
https://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-world-of-dragon-warriors.html
A haunted #Gazetteer…
..of Derbyshire... I've decided to compile a haunted gazeteer of places I have visited in the Shire previously ..in search of paranormal activities.. it won't be concise as the county is wide.. I am reliant on public transport.. and not every place is happy to be painted with the haunted tar brush... but I have plenty of past visits to fall back on.. stay paranormally tuned...
https://huberthobux.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/a-haunted-gazetteer/
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Wei Yuan 魏源 (1793–1857), scholar-official in late imperial #China, proponent of New-Text #Classicism #今文經學 and the School of #Statecraft #經世學派, and author of the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms #海國圖志, a #gazetteer on the West.
Lots of great Gazetteers and Top Secret goodness this week. Who doesn't want to play a spy?
@Ooze @trishalynn @Damon Good luck. I used to spend more time on #Wikipedia than social media. Dealing with #Deletionists discouraged me and I cut back on my editing hours. It wasn’t so much the few negative comments that showed up on my talk page, but the comments made in deletion discussions on some articles that I had started or many that I watched. The cadre of pissants that would show up at every attempt to delete an article about a public high school almost always supported each other with arguments that, essentially, ignored Wikipedia’s Five Pillars in favor of “I’m not interested in this, so it doesn’t belong here.” The same opposition was raised to articles about young or female achievers other than in tech or other fanboy favorites. It was also clear that few editors or admins understood what a #Gazetteer was, as opposed to an encyclopedia. I’m going to follow you in hopes that your research will show up before too long. #Wikipedian #Inclusionist
@Enfanthese et tu voudrais les spatialiser automatiquement ou manuellement ?
Si ce ne sont pas des adresses précises ou des localités bien identifiées (présentes dans un #gazetteer, sorte d'annuaire géospatial de lieux), l'option manuelle sera sans doute meilleure
Grapevine on important toponym and geodata datasets related to the #Ottoman parts of #Europe:
- Boykov_Gazetteer_Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa (v.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8409507
- Grigor Boykov. (2023). Boykov_Gazetteer_Russian-3verst_map [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8411078
Impressive #geodata #gazetteer work that is free to reuse under CC-BY 4.0!
OK, so I might have said "yes" and have conceived researching and writing a piece on #gazetteer alignment and linked data (promises, problems, practicalities, praxis). So now I need to talk to y'all who are doing this, have tried doing this, are using or trying to use the results, have thoughts about what it's (not) good for (if anything), etc. Co-authors you could be.
Todays postal arrival, bought with some birthday money: Literary Hauntings, A Gazetter of Literary Ghost Stories from Britain and Ireland. From #TartarusPress. #Books #GhostStories #Gazetteer #Literature #Fiction #Geography #Psychogeography #Bookstodon #Reading #ShortStories #Ghosts #Hauntings #Britain #BritishFiction #Ireland #IrishFiction #Horror #BritishBooks #IrishBooks
Niche topic warning!
I'm building a database of the administrative hierarchy of the Ottoman empire: ottgaz.org.
My core preliminary source is a huge spreadsheet called Osmanlı Yer Adları. #Ottoman historians know it well.
I've imported it wholesale, and now I'm finding and fixing errors that make the whole thing fall apart.
Today I find that this KEY province was misdated by 4 CENTURIES...oh well! #gazetteer #digitalHumanities
How to locate a street:
#map #maps #OldMaps #gazetteer #atlas #OldAtlases #WonkyInstructions
I see, that you already found "Sieke, Hann.", too. But I'll add the link to the entry in Meyer's #Gazetteer, because it was very easy to find this location in Bremen's Ecclesiastical by searching for a "ke" in that list.
"Street Eats of Zobeck", a post from @KoboldPress Monday:
https://koboldpress.com/street-eats-of-zobeck/
Perfect for the #Zobeck #Gazetteer, or like inspiration for for our own setting.
#worldbuilding :dnd:
#theoldstones I worked on this book for about nine months so pretty cool to see the final product. Buy a copy why don’t you! (You can pre-order from Megalithic.co.uk or Amazon or your local bookshop!) #watkinspublishing #dailymegalith #neolithic #bronzeage #standingstones #stonecircles #burialchambers #gazetteer That’s my pic of Lundin Links as well - get me I’m a #photographer as well as an #editor
