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Subject: Re: Medieval 'projection'
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:40:00 -0500
From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
I should have also included a link to the following thesis:
<http://www.ciuhct.com/online/docs/thesis_joaquim_gaspar_2010-v2.pdf>.
It is a bit lengthy (about 7.4 MB). Its author would likely see this if
the question were posted on the MapHist Forum.
Joel Kovarsky
On 1/18/2012 4:33 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Medieval 'projection'
> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:31:43 -0500
> From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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> This looks to be a section of the _Catalan Atlas of 1375_
> (http://art.unt.edu/medieval-symposium/2010_papers/Holland_2010.pdf and
> http://www.cresquesproject.net/). There is the article:
> _
> _
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> _e-Perimetron_, Vol.1, No. 1, Winter 2006 [32-42]
> Caterina Balletti∗
> "Georeference in the analysis of the geometric content of early maps"
>
> http://www.e-perimetron.org/Vol_1_1/Balletti/Balletti.pdf
>
> That is not a direct answer, but I would consider consider posting your
> question to the new MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum/ .
>
> Joel Kovarsky
>
> On 1/18/2012 3:20 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
> UW Milwaukee wrote:
>> attachment (jpeg)
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>> Subject: Medieval 'projection'
>> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:10:39 -0600
>> From: Thornton, Jacob <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
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>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a unique request that I’m working on and thought the list might
>> be a great source. I’m the GIS guy in the Vanderbilt Library and am
>> giving an instruction session in a French Lit class that is studying
>> Mandeville’s travels in the 1300s. They want to map the locations he
>> went as part of a digital humanities section of the course. We’re going
>> to geocode modern place names that he was known to have traveled to, but
>
>> we’d like to be able to use a map from that time period. Naturally, the
>> modern projection didn’t exist.
>>
>> Here’s a map they want to work with:
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Europe_Mediterranean_Catalan_Atlas.jpeg
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve attached my shot at georeferencing that map. I used the Mercator
>> projection, which I eyeballed to be the closest fit, but it is certainly
>
>> not perfect. The blue areas are modern landmasses that I’m using and you
>> can see how the map does or doesn’t line up. I don’t expect to ever get
>> a perfect fit, but I wonder if I could get a better one at least.
>>
>> Has anyone here done work in this realm? Creating “projections” for the
>> way maps were drawn in medieval times, or at least choosing a modern
>> projection that has a closest fit? The time period is 1357-1371. The
>> goal is to get our geocode of modern place names to line up as well as
>> possible with the Medieval map.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -Jacob
>>
>> :::...:::...:::...:::...:::...:::...:::...:::...:::
>>
>> Jacob B. Thornton
>>
>> GIS Coordinator
>>
>> Vanderbilt University
>>
>> Jean and Alexander Heard Library
>>
>> 419 21st Avenue South
>>
>> Nashville, TN 37240
>>
>> http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/gis
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>> 615.343.7542
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