Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical Atlas

Hi i'm an italian user interested in cartography, i'd like to join this project.Ciaurlec (talk) 07:01, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ciaurlec,

That would be great! I still want to get this project going. Problem is that there is a lack in participance. Maybe there is another guy interested in rejoining, and that would make three of us. Alas, the historical atlas got stuck at the beginning. I have talked with participants on how we will make it, and we never got things going. I did made a private atlas, and discovered that once you have a plan and a method, than everything goes pretty good. This atlas can be found at the bottom of my user page.

My ideas on the atlas are all over the project site, so i like to know what you want to do. Maybe you can continue the discussion on the talk page of the historical atlas, because the user talk pages are hard to follow for others who want to read this.Daanschr (talk) 08:29, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks you for answer me so quickly; and excuse me for writing in such uncorrect english.

My interest lies mainly in earth sciences, but i'd like to apply my knowledge in cartography in a more strucurated project. I'm just now learning how to create maps with Inkscape in vector svg format, and GIS Open sources programs to georeference the images. But it's quite hard to work in a theorethical way without having a clear objective. In example i don't know which projection looks better and for which use, as i'm confused with the kind of colurs to use, symbols used in legend, graphic of line and so on.

I know almost all the sites you indicated in "Noteworthy examples of electronic historical atlases", but all of them have a very different lookup. And i'm not such competent in history to make a choiche of better representation.

I will send you some examples of your maps changed in vector format to have an idea of what can i make. So please let's me know how them look.

PS: We will continue gladly discussion on project page if you're interestedCiaurlec (talk) 17:12, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the projection and the use of colour has more to do with art than with history. The thing that i was concerned in, when it comes to factual accuracy in maps, is the exact borders. How can we copy borders from one map to another, or draw them exactly as they should be? Lots of maps look ugly, because the borders are drawn too hasty.

In the many maps that i made, i was more focused on quantity than quality, and draw all maps by hand. Only the rivers and coastlines were computer generated. Sadly enough, the map generator that i used has been moved from the internet, and i don't know a good alternative.

A problem with the historical atlas is the major lack in participance. It would be best to start easy, and get more complicated once more people join.Daanschr (talk) 21:21, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Clock

no, its just that the ~~~~ button doesnt work on my keyboard so i either copy and past from some of these edit pages, or if its not there then copy past from my prev ones to get the name on there.Lihaas (talk) 19:11, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]