To me, attempts to map the Holy Roman Empire represent the ultimate mapping jigsaw puzzle, which makes it an irresistible challenge to tackle on OHM.
Maps that do exist - svg, png, and others - are based on inscrutable, unsourced data. Ours will be different… and downloadable. : )
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There are innumerable challenges to this project:
It’s big - easily over 2,000 relations
Sources can be hard to find
Learning to let go of any alignment between place types and admin_level: welcome to fuedalism!
The Holy Roman Empire project page is a call for volunteers, and a lightweight organization of how to go about this task.
Please take a look and let me know if you or someone you know or lots of people you know might want to join this effort!
[^map]Map: Mitteleuropa zur Zeit der Staufer; Wikimedia Commons , OHM User:Alphathon.
Cool project, I started adding some borders from the early HRE period (when it wasn’t yet a mess of decentralized states
Awesome!
Two question, though - is that your map or the source for your mapping in OHM. In either case, what are the sources for those boundaries?
There’s quite a few plagiarized and unsourced maps floating around the interwebz. If we can add source links to more trustworthy old maps or older sources of information, that would go a long way to making us even more differentiated from other sources of old vector maps on the web.
Yes, I made it with QGIS
You are right! I added the sources of the boundaries in the relation, I hope it’s ok now
Frying_Pan:
Yes, I made it with QGIS
Whoa! Nice work!!
Fantastic! Much appreciated.
@Frying_Pan - I’m just realizing what you did! You knocked out the entire first source map from the project page… very nice work!
On OHM :
And… on the project page , a coveted status update:
Again, nice work!
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I love the idea, but I’m busy trying to piece Central America together. Mostly Belize. I’ll be following your progress though.
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