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Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic How can we find and map C17th Thames shore warehouses? in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoTwitter exchange with Dr Craig Spence, Saturday December 3rd 2016
Post @Marinelivesorg: Missing Thames infrastructure – Ideas for datamining text/archaeological records to find & map C17th Thames warehouses? #maphackathon

Post @cgspence: @Marinelivesorg my book ‘London in the 1690s’ incs map locating taxed warehouses vaults etc. 4s A…[Read more]
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Max Marmor deposited Art History and the Digital Humanities: in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoInvited response to “Hubertus Kohle, “Kunstgeschichte und Digital Humanities. Einladung zu einer Debatte/Art History and the Digital Humanities. Invitation to a Debate”
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic Where were the twelve mooring chains in the River Thames? in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPrimary sources
E 367/5903. Burrell: Mooring chains and dues in the river Thames between Bugby’s Hole and London Bridge. Date: 22 Geo.III.
Report from the committee appointed to enquire into the best mode of providing sufficeint accomodation for the increased trade and shipping of the port of London (London, 1796)
“Appendix…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic How can we find and map C17th Thames shore warehouses? in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhat text and archaeological records exist which we could make use of in constructing a map of mid-C17th Thames shoreline warehousing?
No comprehensive study or map have been made of C17th warehousing and other commercial marine infrastructure on the north and south shores of the Thames from London Bridge down to Woolwich. Morgan’s 1682 map…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic The use of QGIS in historical mapping in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoQGIS is a free open-source Geographical Information System (GIS). It has been developed and is supported by the OSGeo Foundation. The latest version is QGIS 2.18 Las Palmas. It is available for download here.
The development and release history of the system is described in a wikipedia article on QGIS.
The product runs on Linux, Mac OSX,…[Read more]
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