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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:
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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
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> Jacob B. Thornton
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> GIS Coordinator
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> Vanderbilt University
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> Jean and Alexander Heard Library
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> 419 21st Avenue South
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> Nashville, TN 37240
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> http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/gis
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